Author: Charlie Ban

Q: How did you feel about the man (race official Jock Semple) grabbing you at the Boston Marathon?

A: Well, it was terrible. Talk about bullying, really. He was shouting at me, pulled at me, trying to rip my bib number off. But I prevailed anyway, and I finished the race. My boyfriend pushed him, but I was going to finish anyway. I was glad he pushed him afterwards, but not at the time because I’m not a confrontational person. You have to think that some of those bad things in life are also good things because that guy inspired me to make change. I knew we had to change things for other girls and women.

Two D.C. runners made detours to Mount Vernon on their way to Philadelphia and picked up first place finishes at the George Washington Parkway Classic.

Carlos Jamieson (52:03) and Kerry Allen (1:02:20) tuned up for the Broad Street Run with a rehearsal 10 mile race.  Both members of the Pacers/Georgetown Running Club/New Balance team, the pair took relaxed approaches to their races that allowed them to relish their victories but keep their focuses on next week.

When you meet your friends for a run, do you make an outline of things you want to discuss? Of course not, so why should the hosts of a running podcast do it?

That’s the approach Joanna E. Russo,  William E. Docs (that’s not his name) and Chris Farley have taken with Pace the Nation, the weekly podcast they’ve been doing out of Docs’ Clarendon home since April 2015.

Washington, D.C.’s David McKay and Montgomery Village, Md.’s Beth Conlon led local finishers Monday at the Boston Marathon. A total of 610 runners who registered with local addresses finished the race.

Conlon, 24, ran at Watkins Mill High School in Maryland and competed at Georgetown University as a senior walk-on. She finished fourth at the 2015 Rock ‘n’ Roll D.C. Marathon. McKay ran for Luther College and is am avid trail racer.

The D.C. area has 718 registrants in next Monday’s Boston Marathon: 182 from D.C., 191 from Maryland and 345 from Virginia. Naturally, some may not be running, and some current residents lived […]

Winds predicted to high 50 miles per hour race morning have prompted the Cherry Blossom Ten Mile race committee to make some changes to race infrastructure and procedures, according to race spokesman Keith Peters.

Matthew Centrowitz, son of American University cross country and track coach Matt Centrowitz, won the IAAF World Indoor Championships 1,500 meters, running 3:44.22 to edge the Czech Republic’s Jakub Halusa […]

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