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Race results for teams and individuals

Cherry Blossom Results: A First Look

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Unofficial Cherry Blossom 10 Miler Team Results and Individual Award Results have just been published. Impressions to come with stories in moments.

FLASH UPDATE: Our Women’s Open and Mixed Masters teams both finished third, meaning that fame, fortune, and hopefully coveted engraved medals and a team plaque will be theirs. Our elite team finished 2nd, but in the ideal configuration we could have finished 3rd in the Men’s Open division, along with our other teams which finished 6th, 10th, and 21st.

Team scoring is based on the sum of the net finishing times of the first three eligible finishers on the team as recorded by chiptime. For full details on team scores, see the race site, here.

Below is the digest of performances across WRC for the morning. Way to go!

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Laura Jennings Wins 2 Gold Medals at Masters Indoor Championships

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One of Laura Jennings' two gold medals

Clockwise from top left: Laura Jennings, Eileen Kickish, Jess Crawford, and Debra Cane. Photo courtesy of USATF

Last weekend, WRC member Laura Jennings raced to 1st place in both the women’s 30-35 3000 Meter race and the women’s 30-39 non-club 4 x 800 Meter race at the 2013 Masters Indoor Track & Field Championships. The Championships took place in Landover, MD.

On Friday afternoon, Laura tackled the 3000 Meter race—her first ever. She crushed the competition, beating the next woman in her division by over a minute. After her race, she watched Orville Rogers, 95 years old, race to a 3000 Meter world record for his age division. The entire crowd stood to cheer on Rogers during his final laps. “To see such an athletic feat at that age was nothing short of amazing,” says Laura. Rogers would go on to set six world records at the meet. Continue reading →

Latest Results from Rock ‘n’ Roll USA

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After his late Friday evening escapades in the Wizards players lounge, our roving sports reporter, Colin Fishwick, calls this in from the streets, while observing the 2013 Rock ‘n’ Roll USA Marathon and Half Marathon:

Just watched Max L run by at 16m. An unstoppable tank of a man. (9:14 AM)
Just saw Julia …looking smooth. Ideal conditions, but very sparse up front. Leader came through 15m ~1:24:30 and Wardian was a full two min behind. Then lonely nothing. (9:38AM)

Late breaking results from both races are summarized below. Continue reading →

The Masterson Uncertainty Principle

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“The more precisely the position of some runner is determined, the less precisely his or her momentum can be known, and vice versa.” *

This is to follow up on my earlier post, where I promised “intimate and exclusive details on Kirk’s quantum leap forward” in racing. How I came to know such details is no great secret—I texted Kirk after the standard Sunday Distance Run, inviting him to “tell me a story.” From a volley of twelve replies, squeezed off like illegal ordnance from his iPhone, I felt the notion that maybe, perhaps, our guy had something to say for himself.

So I made plans to call Kirk in the afternoon. We talked shop for almost an hour, reviewed how his streak of successes has come together, and made some predictions about where this might be leading. Continue reading →

The Hunter, the Grande Dame, and our Transcendental President

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The club enjoyed a windfall of great results, on an idyllic Sunday morning best suited for running far, fast, or both.

2013 Fort Hunt 10K
Sunday, 10 March 2013 08:00, Fort Hunt Park, Alexandria, VA
1 Daniel Yi M 32 Alexandria VA	36:18  36:18 1 1

St. Patrick's Day 8K (WRC 2013 Grand Prix Race)
Washington, DC, Mar 10, 2013 9:00 AM
Kirk Masterson 27:24 27 26
Geoff King 28:13 35 33
Elyse Braner 31:50 114 19
Christine Hackman 36:24 317 63

Dan Yi, already known in certain circles as an apex predator, proves himself to be THE dominant hunter. Christine Hackman extends her lead in the 2013 Grand Prix by dialing up the level of age-adjusted quality she brings to the game. El Presidente, Kirk Masterson, transcended himself with a massive personal best. And Geoff and Elyse hone their skills in preparation for next month’s Cherry Blossom 10M, where the club will be fielding six teams.

Stay tuned to this post for intimate and exclusive details on Kirk’s quantum leap forward, coming soon. Update: the follow up is finally available here.