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Thousands race for attorney heart heath

Published June 14, 2014 at 3:28PM | Updated June 25, 2015 at 4:50PM

The women's chase pack heads down Canal Road. Photo: Cheryl Young

Colleen Smith showed up at Covington and Burling ready to put her legal studies to work as a summer associate. She found out pretty quickly that the partners were also interested in her background in distance running. She ran track at the College of Idaho.

“Alan Pemberton told me on my first day I’d be running on the Lawyers Have Heart team,” she said. “The firm is pretty serious about it.”

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Youth Running Shorts

By Charlie Ban

Published June 2, 2014 at 11:18AM | Updated June 5, 2014 at 12:57AM

Reinhardt Harrison closes in on world record in the half marathon for 10-year-olds at the Alexandria Running Festival Half Marathon May 26, 2014, escorted by his mother, Heidi Johannesen.

Age group world record

Falls Church’s Reinhardt Harrison broke an age group record for 10-year-olds at the Alexandria Running Festival Half Marathon May 25, running 1:35:02 to eclipse Noah Bliss’ 1:37:15, set three weeks earlier. U.S. athletes hold 17 of 85 single-age records for the half marathon, which are kept by the Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Harrison set a world record for 10-year-olds at 10 miles at the Cherry Blossom Ten Mile in April, running 1:11:24.

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A pre-work sprint for the federal and media crowds

By Charlie Ban

Published May 21, 2014 at 5:40PM | Updated June 25, 2015 at 4:51PM

Runners head out in the first mile of the ACLI Capital Challenge May 21 in Anacostia Park. Photo: Charlie Ban

A lot of federal and media employees found out what their coworkers looked like in shorts at the ACLI Capital Challenge.

[button-red url=”http://www.capitalchallenge.com/2001_cabinet/history2001.html” target=”_self” position=”left”] Results [/button-red]The annual three-mile run, a staple of many offices in Washington, featured strong individual performances from the Executive Branch, with Coast Guard’s Patrick Fernandez edging House aide Paul Balmer, and Erin Taylor of the General Services Administration outlasting Rachel Beckmann, another Coast Guard team member. The out-and-back course in Anacostia Park featured a slight headwind after the turnaround. Both Fernandez and Taylor train with the Capital Area Runners. Balmer lead Rep. Earl Blumenauer‘s (D-Ore.) Red White and Blumenauer team to the House championship for the fifth consecutive year.

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Top local Boston finishers

By Charlie Ban

Published April 21, 2014 at 3:11PM | Updated August 10, 2015 at 12:26PM

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I’ve done my best to compile the Boston results for D.C.-area runners, roughly Washington, D.C., Prince George’s and Montgomery County, Md. and in Virginia, Fairfax and Arlington counties, Alexandria, Falls Church, Manassas and Manassas Park and parts of Loudoun and Prince William counties. Please comment if I have omitted you.

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All-RunWashington: Louis Colson, Edison

By Charlie Ban

Published April 21, 2014 at 12:43AM | Updated April 11, 2018 at 3:52PM

Edison's Louis Colson flanked by teammates Monty Westendorff (5174) and Joe McAlister (354) at the 2013 Crystal City Twilighter. Photo: Brian W. Knight/Swim Bike Run Photography

Riding high on his trip to the Virginia state track championships as a freshman, Thomas A. Edison’s Louis Colson got overconfident going into his second year of cross country.

Overconfident, but certainly not lazy.

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UPDATED:Your 2014 Boston Marathoners

By Charlie Ban

Published April 14, 2014 at 10:55AM | Updated June 25, 2015 at 4:52PM

Of the Washington, D.C. area’s tens of thousands of runners, 865 have registered for the 2014 Boston Marathon. The list has been updated to reflect a more comprehensive search of local runners

[button-blue url=”http://www.runwashington.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Boston-entrants-2014-revised.pdf” target=”_self” position=”left”] See this year’s local entrants [/button-blue]

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Nearly 18,000 turn out for Cherry Blossom Ten Miler

By Charlie Ban

Published April 7, 2014 at 12:30PM | Updated June 25, 2015 at 4:52PM

Gerald Montgomery of Washington, D.C. heads toward a 1:05:20 finish at the Cherry Blossom Ten Mile. Photo: Vladimir Bukalo

As Washington-area residents have learned this year, if you don’t like the weather, wait a while.

[button-red url=”http://www.runwashington.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/CB-2014.pdf” target=”_self” position=”left”] Results [/button-red]A week after sleet, hail and snow pelted anyone who went outside, runners at the Cherry Blossom Ten Mile enjoyed nearly-perfect conditions. The only complaint many had was with the late-looming cherry trees. But that didn’t stop more than 17,747 10-mile runners. The 5k drew 2,143.

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Falls Church native captures first national title at Cherry Blossom

By Charlie Ban

Published April 7, 2014 at 12:04PM | Updated June 25, 2015 at 4:53PM

The lead pack, including U.S. 10 mile champion Christo Landry,center, navigates a turn in mile five of the Cherry Blossom Ten Mile. Photo: Charlie Ban

Chasing Greg Meyer’s American record put Christo Landry in contention at the Cherry Blossom Ten Mile, and though he fell short of the 46:13 standard, the Falls Church native came away with his first national championship in 46:41. His finish put him sixth overall.

Now a professional runner for Mizuno living in Ann Arbor, he came home to the D.C. area to tune up for the 10k at the Peyton Jordan invitational next month at Stanford University and ended up lobbing off a chunk from his previous 10 mile time, a racing distance of relative obscurity away from the east coast.

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Bawcom resets American record at Cherry Blossom

By Charlie Ban

Published April 7, 2014 at 11:48AM | Updated June 25, 2015 at 4:53PM

Aliphine Tuliamuk-Bolton and Mamitu Daska try to hold their lead over Janet Bawcom and Sarah Hall halfway through the Cherry Blossom Ten Mile. Photo: Vladimir Bukalo

Janet Bawcom weighed her effort at the Cherry Blossom Ten Mile on going for the overall win and although she ran out of room to catch Ethiopian Mamitu Daska, she still came away with another national title and 52:12 finish that lopped 1:16 off the American Record she set last year, when she finished fourth.

[button-red url=”http://www.runwashington.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/CB-2014.pdf” target=”_self” position=”left”] Results [/button-red]”I just wanted to run hard and be competitive in the race as long as I could. It worked out. Last year, I was alone on that straightaway from mile six to seven, running into the wind,” she said. “This year, I told myself that no matter what I did, I couldn’t be alone out there. If it meant hurting to catch up to someone else, it would be better than hurting on my own later. It’s going to be the same amount of pain, so I might as well hurt more early and run faster.”

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Alexandria man takes running tour of Virginia’s counties

By Charlie Ban

Published April 6, 2014 at 5:12PM | Updated April 10, 2017 at 2:42PM

Update: As of May 2016, Ed Kelleher is up to 117 counties and independent cities.

Running bucket lists, in some form or another, seem to come naturally to runners. Races they want to do, parks they want to run in, athletes they want to meet. The 50 States Marathon Club has quite a following; it even has a website for its hundreds of aspiring members. But one Alexandria man is working on a running goal that is at the same time simpler and more ambitious.