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.
All Summer in a Night
We’re registering an Open Co-Ed Team for the Rockville Twilighter 8K, on this coming Saturday, July 20th, race starting 8:30 PM. This is the next item on the club’s inaugural Grand Prix schedule. It’s a uniquely fast race, Metro accessible, with a deep field and plentiful amenities for Après-run.
If you haven’t signed up already, do so now, and let me know about the team ASAP, here.
Post Independence Day Crew
Sixteen brave souls (plus at least three stragglers) beat this heat with the early start, covering anywhere from 9 to 16 miles. Photo by el Prez, Kirk Masterson
Clattenburg and A Unicorn Go Forth and Win at Go Fourth 8K
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 2445:4728:47* 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.
June Newsletter has Posted
The June edition of our club’s monthly newsletter just posted for members/subscribers to our newsletter email list. Featuring great stories by Carla Freyvogel & Christine Hackman!
Bon Voyage, Lucy!
Lucy Rogers (top row, center, in a white singlet and black cap) is flanked by her teammates, on the last weekend before she departs for graduate studies at the Wake Forest Schools of Business top-ranked MBA program, located at the Reynolda Campus in the twin cities of Winston-Salem, NC. Photo courtesy of Alexa Williams
An Uplifting Experience for Dan Yi in an Up Year
Dan Yi sealing his 79th overall, first American and silver medalist finish at the 2013 Comrades Marathon.
Our own Dan Yi ventured to South Africa to run the Comrades Marathon on June 2nd. We know he is fit, we know he is awesome, we know he has a great attitude but did we know that ANYONE could report having kicked it in after 54 miles? Could we have imagined he would say this was “the best running experience of my life”? Continue reading