John Ward, 36 of Owings Mill, MD. John posted a 64 minute 10 miler at Bottle and Cork September 9th. John will be running on our Army 10 Miler men’s team in October. We welcome John to the club.
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WRC won the team competition in the National Capital Twenty Miler in Alexandria on Sunday, June 24th. Todd Martin lead WRC, taking second overall behind David Mead of Bethesda in a time of 2:01, while Steve Ward our second faster runner, was first master in a time of 2:10 – a bit slower than the 1:56 he blazed three years ago, but nonetheless very good. Mark Drosky looks like he is back to his old form.And new hire Hannah Howe, was our first woman in a time of 2:28. It was rather humid during the race. Commented Todd "The humidity was definitely a factor. It could have been far worse had the sun been out."
Special congrats are in order to Todd and Jascha, who both ran races the day before. And to Matt Hochstetler, for whom this was his first twenty mile run. Advised before the race that it is a good idea to run negative splits (i.e. to run the last half of the race faster than the first half) Matt did an 80 minutes and came back in 70 minutes.
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Anthony Belber continued on his winning ways, taking first in a time of 27:09 at the Back to School 8K
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Said Kevin
"Felt good in Philly. Definitely one of the better
races I have ever run. Its not too often you break 2 PRs in 1 race! I hit
10 miles in 57:10, and ended up 1:15:15 for the half."
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Folks interested in reading about Robin Oswald’s performance at Ironman Canada are encouraged to log on Robin’s website and check out her account.
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On a related note, it is possible that next year the Georgetown 10K may occur in a different place - or not at all. Local citizens association in Foxhall and the Palisades are growing weary of the race, and the atttendant traffic problems. With ecclesiastical and commercial opposition also growing (and the U.S. Park Service reluctant to reroute the race to Rock Creek Parkway), the future of G'town 10K is in question.
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It has been quite a while since we got since a quick group of guys on one team – both Yancy and Gary have broken 54 minutes in the past year. They will definitely be one of the quicker teams running the race. Many thanks to Todd for taking the time to assemble this potent arsenel.
Robin Oswald will be leading the our co-ed Army Ten Miler Team.
And Kevin Ryan has put together a men’s team for the Marine Corps Marathon, consisting of the following runners.
Should be a team primed to hunt bear.
Kevin tells us that he, Gary O’Donnell and Paul Neimeyer intend to run the Boston Marathon next spring. Hopefully, in the next few months, more members will qualify for Boston, and we can enter other teams.
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"Betty Blank teamed up with Mary Ellen Williams and Patty Duester to win the Women's Open Team Trophy at the 1983 Boston Marathon. Suzy Coffey and Colleen Troy were also members of that WRC women's team...It was quite a feather in WRC's cap. Betty's time in the 1983 Boston Marathon was 3:04. I believe Mary Ellen Williams ran around 2:54 and Patty Duester ran around 2:49."Colleen Troy confirms "I ran 2:57 at Boston that year".
So the 1983 women’s team posted scoring times of 2:49, 2:54 and 2:57. To give an idea how good this is, their total elapsed time of 8:40 would have won THIS years competition at Boston as well. Impressive stuff.
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