Yearly Archives: 2014

Sunday Distance Run – 7/13

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The planned route for the SDR tomorrow will be the Ross Drive loop. This is around 13.5 miles total. The map for the section from Peirce Mill around Ross Drive can be found on the WRC maps page as well as an “almost correct” version from a prior posting. Other mileage options can include out-and-back for fewer than 13.5 miles or a few miles of add-on at the end before heading back to M street.  We should be able to keep the pack together through the first water stop at Peirce Mill.

Start at 33rd and M street in Georgetown (in front of CB2) at 0700!

Competition: Washington Running Club Runs the World!

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Grand Prize: $100 gift certificate to Pacers!!!!!!

We know you all like good competition! Here is your chance to tap into both your creative spirit and your competitive nature…all without lacing up your racing flats.

WRC singlet relaxes on the porch. Long Island Sound, Waterford, CT, USA. Photo by Carla Freyvogel

WRC singlet relaxes on the porch. Long Island Sound, Waterford, CT, USA. Photo by Carla Freyvogel

Photograph your WRC singlet as it ventures around the world. Take it to the beach! Have it scale Mt. Rushmore! Bribe Beyoncé to bop down a Brooklyn street with it nicely pinned for the perfect fit. Being the international crowd that we are, we are expecting to see the singlet with Big Ben in the background or Scotland Yard. YOU think up the possibilities!

Competition Details:
  • Prize: $100 gift certificate to Pacers Running Stores.
  • Entries close: December 31, 2014, midnight
  • Elgible participants: WRC members in good standing
  • Prize awarded: WRC’s Annual Party in late January 2015
  • Judges: Three of the newest WRC members of 2014 & two members of the WRC Board of Directors. These individuals are not excluded from competing!

Send your photos to Carla Freyvogel at carla@washrun.org. Multiple entries are permitted.

A gallery of current contest entries is available here.

A HUGE thanks to the Pacers Running Stores gang for their support and enthusiasm!

Dumbarton Doodle Dandy

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It’s once again time for Washington Running Club to give back to some of the awesome places through which we run!

Club member and Outreach and Community Events Officer, Michaela Corr, is working to identify the best opportunity for WRCers to lend a hand and do some crosstraining at the Dumbarton Oaks Park in Georgetown.

If you want to help keep one of the prettier places where we go running looking its very best, start by letting Michaela know when you’re available, via her dandy DOODLE. We’ll only participate in this once, but click on all the dates you are free to help lend a hand.
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Sunday Distance Run – 7/6

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Excellent weather predicted for tomorrow morning! The planned route will be a 13 mile trip around the mall, Hains Point, 14th St Bridge, and back up to Georgetown. Thanks to Julia for mapping this out:

MapMyRun route

We will meet at 0700 in front of CB2 in Georgetown.

Club Singlets: Available Now, Visible Everywhere

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Will Cotton's "Cupcake Katy" (2010) went on view at the National Portrait Gallery, but not without some local finishing touches.

Will Cotton’s “Cupcake Katy” (2010) went on view at the National Portrait Gallery, but not without some local finishing touches.

Our store has finally reopened to take your pre-orders for club racing singlets! One American songbird, Katy Perry, already received hers and wore it out to the National Portrait Gallery (June 18 – July 6)! artnet News has another view of Katy’s NPG selfie.

So WRC members: place your orders, and we’ll have you suited for our own sweet sport.

LHH 10k Team Results

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WRC did wonderfully this morning at the Lawyers Have Heart 10K, including club racing debuts for several of our members. Stories to follow shortly!

Community TEAM TEAM RESULTS
(Team Must Include 1 Male & 1 Female Runner)
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  1. 2:34:13 Washington Running Club            (  38:34)
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  1    35:21  Ben         Stutts         M 
  2    37:12  Jack        Mullaney       M 
  3    38:33  John        Hallett        M 
  4    43:07  Julia       Taylor         F 
  5 (  44:53) Caitlin     Maloney        F 
  6 (  46:00) Maura       Duffy          F

A digest of results for all club members is below: Continue reading →