National Marathon

Would anyone be interested in meeting at the store earlier than usual this Saturday to go over and watch (part of) the National Half and Marathon?

GRC has at least 4 people running the half; Chris Raabe, Dickson Mercer, Laura O, Lindsey...others?

The race starts at 7am...we wouldn't need to meet that early, but certainly pre-8. I have to look at a map to figure out where we would need to be and when to see these 4 run by.

Any interest?

St. Patrick's Day EVE - Ri Ra in Bethesda!

So, Justin (who's about 115% more Irish than me), says that the Celts count their days from sunset to sunset. That means that TONIGHT is the true start St. Patrick's Day. A few of us will be meeting at Ri Ra in Bethesda for happy hour libations and/or food.

ALSO, let us have plans for tomorrow instead/as well (Jake?)...

Here are the details for tonight:

Date: TONIGHT, Monday March 16
Time: Happy Hour runs from 7-9 pm, but feel free to come earlier or stay later
Place: Ri Ra in Bethesda
4931 Elm Street
Bethesda, MD 20814

Hope to see some of you tonight!

More Pictures! Shamrock 5k

I took a couple shots from the same location near the finish line, copy and paste the pictures at will.

Link

5K photos

Here's a link to the full gallery. Some highlights:

St. Patrick's Day 8K - Men

   7  5963 Diego Miralles           M 26 College Park MD         16:22   25:53   25:50 
  13     5 Billy Askey              M 26 Arlington VA            16:23   26:17   26:14 
  14    13 Dylan Keith              M 24 Arlington VA            16:28   26:22   26:19 
  16     7 Alex Eversmeyer          M 27 Gaithersburg MD         16:24   26:27   26:25 
  18    11 Patrick Hughes           M 22 Washington DC           16:32   26:40   26:38 
  20     9 Patrick Murphy           M 24 Washington DC           16:40   26:51   26:48

Nice run by the guys here in DC as well. A PR for Diego?

GRC DOMINATES SHAMROCK 5K IN BALTIMORE!!!

BREAKING NEWS ALERT

P. Murphy reports that Red Fox Jake Klim won in 14:55 with P. Reaves finishing 2nd, Sam Blasiak 3rd, Injured Thunder Bain 6th and Melissa Tanner winning women's!!

- JARRIN

Peachtree Road Race!

If anyone is by chance interested in racing at the Peachtree Road Race this year, it's July 4th in Atlanta. This is the one race I do every year.

It's the largest race in the U.S. with 55,000 people, but because of a wave starts, you'll probably get in toward the front with a sea of humanity behind you. Thanks to the new disposable timing chips, everyone will be timed this year for the first time. It's also serving as the U.S. 10k Championships this year, so competition should be fiercer than usual.

Sign-up, however, goes pretty quickly. If anyone's game to run it this year, click here.

It's definitely not a "PR" course, but it's pretty much the largest and deepest race around outside of one of the major marathons. Like the Boston Marathon, it's been a couple of decades since an American has won, so I'm hoping this is the year when we end the drought. Will it be you???

St. Patty's Day....Night

Anyone have any plans for the night of St. Patty's Day?

Sunday Races

Soooo... I guess I signed up for both races on Sunday. I can't remember signing up for the 5k in Bmore, but they assured me I have. So I have two options:

1) Be epic and run both
2) Be shady and let someone else run as covert operative "Patrick Hughes"

Any takers for option two?

(I realize the third option is to pick one, but then I wouldn't be able to find out what my 13k-with-a-3-hour-break-between-the-first-8k-and-second-5k PR is.)

Wednesday Run

Is anyone showing up for the Wednesday night run at the Georgetown store today? I've missed the past several weeks for various reasons and am wondering if people are still meeting on Wednesdays or if I should just do a workout on my own.

Boston for GGRF

Dear GRC -

I recently joined the Board of the Girls Gotta Run Foundation, Inc., an organization that raises money to provide support for impoverished Ethiopian girls who are training to be runners. On April 20, 2009, I will be running the 113th Annual Boston Marathon. I ran the marathon last year for personal reasons, but this year I have decided to give back and will be running to support "the girls."

I am thrilled to be running a prestigious race for an incredibly worthy cause. My goal is to raise $1,000 in sponsorship before the event and I would greatly appreciate contributions of any amount to help me achieve my goal. All donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

For years I have taken for granted my basic freedom to go to school, marry when I please, and run for fitness and pleasure. In Ethiopia, education is not guaranteed and girls often get married as adolescents. GGRF provides money for running shoes, training clothes, extra food ("calorie money"), coach subsidies, and other training-related expenses for young women training to be runners in Ethiopia. Training to be athletes allows them to stay in school, avoid early marriage, and gain personal independence.

To read more about the organization, please visit our website at: http://www.girlsgottarun.org/

You can donate by visiting my fundraising page at: http://www.firstgiving.com/sheenadahlke.

Thank you in advance for your consideration. Your help is truly appreciated!

your pal,

Sheena

Long run tomorrow

For all interested parties, PMurphy, Dickson M, and I are running tomorrow afternoon at the Line. Dickson and I are starting at 2:30 (for the firat four miles) and will then meet Patrick at 3:00 for ~16. Post here of you wanna join in and we'll look out for you!

Also, whether you're running with us or not, don't forget to set your clocks an hour ahead...

Beyond the Epic Run - Documentary Film Screening

From a press release on WRR:

This public screening of "Beyond the Epic Run" takes place at George Washington University's Jack Morton Theater on Sunday, March 8 at 5 pm. Admission is free. The theater is located at 805 21st Street NW in Washington, DC. For directions/more information, call 202-994-7736.

I'm headed down to see the screening of this movie with Allen, Melissa and others. If you'd like to join us, just let us know. The movie's promoter asked Allen and I to speak as part of a panel (even after I assured him that I am horribly awkward in front of crowds). If anyone wants to fill in for me, lemme know...

GOOD YEAR

I was running on the treadmill at 10pm last night. I was watching some movie with Denzel Washington. I was at the gym.

People can run at all times and at all places nowadays.

With this being said, you/we should all be proud.

-Great Boston Marathon for the team
-USATF cross country National Champions
-Multiple race team wins at local races style
-Won the Marine Corps Marathon store team challenge
-Many people PR'd

other noteworthy accomplishments:

Dylan graduated from being a Vegan to.........
Jarrin is no longer plagued with a foot problem but has some other mysterious virus.
Jake won Runner of the year for the Montgomery County Road Runners.
I left WORKING FOR THE MAN to manage running stores.
Chris Bain figured out he is not Mike Wardian
I am sure there is other lore to go around.
Take care and keep it real out there.

FLASHBACK

Can anyone guess who this is?

In my last day of freedom before starting my new job tomorrow, I am adding profiles for everyone who doesn't currently have one (by gleening the internet). I added Wilson, Ben and Max...looking for others.

If Peter Silverman has NOT produced YOUR profile and you have one online, please send me an email and I will add the link. Thanks.

Weekend Runs

On SATURDAY, instead of going to the GRC Store, please head to the NO RAIL ON THE TRAIL 10K for the 9:00am race. You can run it as a tempo, group run or race. Details are below:

http://www.therunningcompany.net/norailonthetrail10k.html

If anyone has a suggestion for a SUNDAY run, please throw it out.

Snow-Free Tracks

Does anyone know if they clear off the Washington-Lee or the Georgetown track after snowfalls? I want to do an interval workout tomorrow but if there are no tracks that are cleared off I can wait until later in the week when the weather is warmer and the snow melts.

Thanks

Jonathan

Got Medium GRC Singlet?

I'm running No Rail on the Trail 10k this Saturday and would like to borrow someone's medium singlet for the race... it doesn't matter if it's a men's or women's. Please let me know at ljerdonek at gmail.com. Thank you!

Don't Forget to Run Today

Spring is only 18 days away...

Time Trial

Congrats to the guys who ran the time trial today at UMD. I think Bert, Jake, and Patrick all set PRs. Here are the photos.