Parting is such sweet sorrow. We wish our friend, the B.A.A.’s Jonathan Baker (top row, 4th from right, in his silvery adidas muscle tee), safe travels as he meanders back North to Boston.

Standing two places to Jonathan’s left is WRC’s Ben Stutts, who raced a neat 4:46.86 on the tartan at the DCRRC’s 2013 Track Championship Mile Heats on Wednesday (results). And standing to Ben’s left is newest club member, Paul Karlsen of London, originally of Scotland, who has yet to make his American tarmacadam racing debut (here’s why), but is preparing for the Bank of America Chicago Marathon.

Everyone else ran about a million muggy miles, in anticipation of this coming Thursday’s Thirst Quencher.