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Sunday July 5, 2026 with WRC

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First Sunday Photo in Georgetown @ 3307 M Street NW! July!

July felt like a great time to showcase our new hats and singlets! (Thanks so much to our secretary Katie B and the singlet committee for their hard work getting these out to our club.)

June 2026 Race Highlights

Congrats to those that had races in June! Global Running Day is in the month of June so what a fine time to partake in celebrating ourselves as runners! Cheers everyone!

Mile time trial– 6/3/2026 Katie Freix did the DCRR Global Running Day mile time trial – 6:20’s min/mi, Daniel Eisert, DCRR Global Running Day mile time trial – 5:17min/mi, Daltyn Payne, DCRR Global Running Day mile time trial – 5:20’s min/mi and on 6/6/2026 James Scarborough did a 1.5M, Triple Crown Track 1.5M, Arlington VA, 12:54, 4th place, James Scarborough, CBRC Track 1M, Patuxent HS, Lusby MD, 8:11, 2nd place

5k- Frithjov Iversen, DCRR Run After the Women 5k 24:28, Tony Lopacki, DC Roadrunners 5K (Run After the Women 5k) at Bluemont Park. 10 min/mile. 31:06 and Parkrun Ohio and Erie Canal Park 5K. 30:32, James Scarborough, Suds and Soles 5K, Rockville MD, 28:10, 316th place, Tidal Basin Run 5K, Arlington VA, 29:21, 4th place, HCS Cross Country 5K, Howard HS, Columbia MD, 29:50, 43rd place.

Marathon- Sergey Volcov did the Midnight Sun Marathon Tromsø Norway 3:59:13, very cool!

Eric was a pacer for the 5k at the Light Horse track club Unbridled event. Daniel, Daltyn and friends were scheduled to do the DMR event but due to rain/lightning it was canceled.

Amazing job to those that had races!

Held og lykke til vores ven Jacob Fuglsang (and Lisa)!

Also, this year Washington Running Club is 52 years old!

XO Kat (See you Sunday!)

‘That’s a Washingtonian, that’s a runner’

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WRC Vice President Carla Freyvogel, current club member Charlie Ban, and club alumnus Jim Hage are all quoted at length in Jessica Goldstein’s October 25th article in the Washington Post’s Style section (or, “the gateway to the Sports section”, as we like to call it).

The excellent lead photo by Katherine Frey is of the start of our Sunday Distance Run, with Liz Lambert, Gerry Ives, Christine Hackman, Megan Haberle, Mike Manning, Carla Freyvogel, Rachel Clattenburg, Emily Buzzell, Drew Killian, and Kit Wells all visible in the foreground.

Clattenburg and Killian will be competing with their teammates at the 38th Marine Corps Marathon on Sunday.

That it appears Gerry is being chased by a hoard of very fit and accomplished women is no accident.

Works Cited

Goldstein, Jessica. “City of the Long Run.” The Washington Post Oct 25 2013. ProQuest. Web. 25 Oct. 2013 . <Link>

Every Cloud DOES Have a Silver Lining

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FLASH NEWS: WRC scholar-athlete Daniel Yi, and his doping liability spreading idea from 2005, gets a mention in today’s New Yorker (“Tyson Gay and How to Clean Up Track”, by Nicholas Thompson, online edition). That article is available here, and Daniel’s original paper for Legal Affairs is available here.

Clattenburg and A Unicorn Go Forth and Win at Go Fourth 8K

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Six WRCers and two compadres gathered early on Independence Day, at the historic Vienna Town Green. Hosted by our friends of the PVTC, together we sweetly sang the lyrics of the Star Spangled Banner to the accompaniment of an MP3 file played back on a BlackBerry held up to a P.A. mic.

In fact, we sang a little too fast for the frugivorous gizmo that symbolizes this Washingtonian life. Were we perhaps nudged out of meter by some magnetic inducement flowing from the extra high voltage 230 kV transmission lines looming above us?

Whatever the case, it was marvelous to watch the B.A.A.’s Jonathan Baker zoom off in a flurry, followed brightly by newcomer Daisuke Ogata, dressed in day-glo orange hat and shirt and mistaken more than once for a distant traffic cone. Rachel Clattenburg in red paced herself wisely, climbing up the ranks throughout the race. We slapped low-fives as we passed along the out-and-back course.

Everyone left the race with some quarry of Stars and Stripes, whether in the form of a beach towel, embroidered flags (both in original and Vermont antiqued flavors), or just the shorts they wore to the race. I offered my own flag to Daisuke as a gift, and he immediately requested to have his picture taken with it in the now-standard USATF display. What a great country, that even our silliest of motifs are accessible to all.

Full results are available here; WRC (& friends) results are below.

Potomac Valley Track Club Go Fourth 8K
W&OD Trail, Vienna VA
Thursday, July 4, 2013

5K  Name               G Age Time    M  F    Award
-- --------------------- --- ------  -  -   --------
1  Jonathan Baker      M  29 27:15   1      M20-29 1 B.A.A #Unicorns
5  Rachel Clattenburg  F  29 33:16      1   F20-29 1
6  Kit Wells           M  36 33:35   5      M30-39 3
7  Daisuke Ogata       M  38 33:51   6
12 Jay Jacob Wind      M  63 36:09   9      M60-69 1
18 Jerold Paulson      M  54 38:23  14      M50-59 2
33 James Scarborough   M  55 43:34  24
41 Benjamin Stutts     M  24 45:47 28:47*  27      M20-29 2
91 finishers
* late start, due to confusing pre-race instructions

UPDATE: A race report by Maggie Lloyd was published on RunWashington.com, here.

A Supposedly Tough Thing I’ll Probably Do All Over Again

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Yes, we have most definitely relaunched washrun.org, as part of a broader communications effort this year: to share this club’s marvelous history across the past four decades, to enhance our ability to take on new running challenges, and to accelerate the telling of new and exciting stories. Allow me to point out a couple of new features and design choices that will hopefully work toward those ends!
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