Charlie Ban is the Editor-in-Chief of RunWashington, the runner's source for the DC area.
MCM registration opens tomorrow, International Womxn’s Day panel, Rock Creek Park path meeting, NCAA XC qualifiers, Olympic Trials track qualifiers, local Virginia state indoor champs and podcast guests.
In any other year, a chilly Thursday morning would see a group of D.C. Road Runners gather in the pre-dawn hours at the Yorktown High School track. Paul Ryan would show up clad in his decades-old puffy U.S. Naval Academy warmup suit.
“Everyone else would be wearing tights, but Paul has this almost-plastic coat,” Rich Mendelowitz said. “It works for him, it’s all kind of old school and it fits his personality.”
Name: Omar Ali
Self-described age group: 50-55 (but I’m on the very low end of this age group)
Opportunities abound to comment on pedestrian paths, a bevy of podcasts and a GDS alumna hits it big.
Name: Megan Schoffstall
Self-described age group: 30
The Rock Creek Park path will soon be repaved and a pedestian bridge will ease congestion south of the tunnel near the zoo. Comments on a Prince George’s County Bike and Pedestrian Network Plan are due Friday.
You’ll never have a still enough day to see it quite that way, but the Potomac River is a mirror.
Time moves differently now for Andrew Lent.
Part of it is his age — he’s 21, and a minute, an hour, even a month exists on a broader scale than it did a few years before.
Cherry Blossom postpones to September; Prince George’s County looking for pedestrian input; D’Amato, Kelati and Schneider share stories with podcasts; Matthew Henson Trail has short detour.
Emily Hart’s friends raved about how Marine Corps would be the best “first marathon” for her, with deafening crowds, thousands of volunteers, aid stations and the atmosphere of running through her home city.
When finally she ran it, her experience was completely different from what she’d heard about, but no less memorable. Like many of the D.C. area’s marathoners, she charted her own course for 26.2 miles in 2020 — straight up the W&OD Trail — one of hundreds whose options were only limited by their creativity and motivation. And, public health orders limiting gathering sizes.