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Doubts swirled around my head, and my right quad muscles ached with cramp-like pain. It was only ten miles into the 2021 Philadelphia Marathon but as I watched what felt like hundreds of runners zip past me, I started to recalibrate my pre-race goal: Three hours and 50 minutes became four hours. Then four and a half hours. Then simply finishing.
The race turned into a mental battle. My legs screamed for me to stop and walk, while my brain urged me to continue on pace. The 10th mile would be my slowest up to that point. I tried to find motivation wherever I could. I repeated the mantras, “mind over body” and “don’t run scared,” to myself as I locked on to the runners in front of me. I visualized how satisfying it would feel when I crossed the finish line with another sub-four hour marathon. I thought about my supporters back home who were tracking my race online.
This 5K+ (3.5 mile) run/walk event for adults and youth is on Sat. Oct. 11, 2025, in the beautiful Agricultural History Farm Park in Derwood MD. The purpose is to have an outdoor, fun and healthy gathering to promote community engagement and voter participation in Montgomery County and our beautiful State of Maryland. A Pep Rally and warm up featuring our Maryland elected officials starts at 8 am, and the race starts at 9 am. The course is a natural trail path that traverses through the peaceful historical farm park. There is a water station at the 1.5 mile marker. Online registration only. Packet pick-up is available on October 10 in Potomac, MD, and you can pick up your packet starting at 7:15 am at the race venue on the day of the race. Check the race website for details.
Join us at Run 4 MK for a morning of purpose, movement, and community.
Run 4 MK creates a community of folks dedicated to ending chronic homelessness in Washington, DC. It is a 5k, 10k, 500m kids fun run at Fletcher’s Cove along the C&O Canal on Saturday, November 15, 2025. This run can also be virtual.
If I learned anything from the 2023 Parkway Classic, it was that I enjoy pacing people while running and that a large singlet was too big for me and threatened to sag below my shorts when it got wet.
Anyone I work out with on the track knows that I take a lot more pride in running my laps “dead-on-balls accurate” (it’s an industry term) than I do in running any rep particularly fast.
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Sam Doud was itching to run, just for a few shakeout miles.
The problem was that he was at a post-race party after the California International Marathon (CIM) in Sacramento, Cali., where everyone else was happy to put the last 26.2 miles behind them. On that December 2018 morning, he was 52 seconds too slow to qualify for the 2020 Olympic Marathon Trials, and eager to fix that. But he took a few steps and realized a run just wasn’t going to happen.
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St. Albans alumnus wins club cross country championship.
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This article originally appeared in the January/February 2014 issue of RunWashington.
Runners run, elected officials legislate and besides the dozens of honorary congressional chairs for the Cherry Blossom Ten Mile, never the twain shall meet.
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This article originally appeared in the January/February 2014 issue of RunWashington.
Runners run, elected officials legislate and besides the dozens of honorary congressional chairs for the Cherry Blossom Ten Mile, never the twain shall meet.