From the yearly archives: 2016

NIH Take a Hike! Day

By On June 2, 2016 · Leave a Comment

 

 

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Horrible Prizes

By On May 29, 2016 · 7 Comments

Lately, I’ve had a run of bad prizes.  First there was the 25,000 airline miles ‘negative prize’ at the DC Race for the Cure. And now no one at the DC Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon will return my emails about the fact that I haven’t yet received my $500 cash prize (or the trophy they […]

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DC Race for the Cure 5k

By On May 15, 2016 · Leave a Comment

Momma Jill’s Performance of the Decade

My mom’s been running the Susan G. Komen Global Race for the Cure 5k for 20+ years, marking 20+ years of cancer survivorship.  Somehow, over these two decades my mom has reversed the course of aging.  At age 69 she is actually running faster than she ever ran in the previous […]

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Boot and Rally

By On May 1, 2016 · Leave a Comment

 

Wednesday, April 27th, 11:30pm: 30 minutes before registration closes for Promise Land.  Aaron had long ago passed out in bed.  He was exhausted.  He’d been exhausted for months.  My fingers hovered over the keyboard in indecision.

Reasons for running the Promise Land 50k:

(a) I need to get some quality mountains training in during the next […]

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Lobsterfest 2016

By On April 13, 2016 · 1 Comment

While most of the VHTRC was running Bull Run Run 50 or North Face 50mi/50k/marathon/half marathon on April 9th, a small renegade faction was in Shepherdstown, WV for what could be the most under-rated trail race in the area: Race for the Birds 5k/10k.

The last time we’d […]

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