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Susan Tanui repeats as Army Ten-Miler champion

Published October 9, 2018 at 12:32PM | Updated October 12, 2018 at 5:16PM

For the second straight year, high humidity met Army Ten-Miler runners, but this year’s race was mercifully cooler. But last year’s conditions still stung Susan Tanui, so when the defending women’s champion set out, she made it a point to start out conservatively. It paid off, with a 56:33 victory over Julia Roman-Duval’s 57:17.

Tanui improved by 17 seconds over last year’s time and Roman-Duval improved by two minutes. Tanui, a member of the Army’s World Class Athlete Program, is stationed at Fort Carson in Colorado. Roman-Duval lives in Columbia, Md. Emily Da La Bruyere, of D.C. was third in 59:07.

Three-man race makes for thrilling Glory Days Invitational

By Charlie Ban

Published October 8, 2018 at 10:49PM | Updated October 10, 2018 at 5:08AM

Luke Tewalt leads Jack Leech and Max Greczyn through the third mile of the Glory Days Invitational. Photo: Charlie Ban

Luke Tewalt isn’t the kind of hold back, especially when he has a chance to really be part of a race.

The Washington Latin junior took that opportunity Saturday at the Glory Days Invitational at Clifton’s Bull Run Regional Park, leading W.T. Woodson’s Jack Leech and Bishop O’Connell’s Max Greczyn through the rolling course. For Tewalt, it was a Goldilocks race, not too fast, like the DCXC Invitational a week earlier when he faced off against a Lynchburg area runner with a much faster personal best; and not too slow, like many of the smaller invitationals his charter school team had been racing.

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By Jenny Paul

Published October 8, 2018 at 10:15AM | Updated November 5, 2019 at 9:15AM

Jenny Paul is an attorney who has written for RunWashington since 2018, including this profile of Olympic Marathon Trials qualifier Kerry Allen. Read more of her work here.

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Running Shorts

By Charlie Ban

Published October 2, 2018 at 12:53PM | Updated October 2, 2018 at 5:30PM

Josef Tessema (32) leads the Navy Mile pack through the first quarter mile of the race. Photo: Charlie Ban

Springfield native beats two-time Olympic medalist in D.C. road mile, Bethesdan honored for contribution to rail trails.

Muddy course turns DCXC Invite into a test of strength

By Charlie Ban

Published September 30, 2018 at 7:03PM | Updated November 29, 2018 at 1:38PM

Cullen Capuano, Daniel O'Brien, Luke Tewalt and Gavin McElhennon race the junior boys' race at the DCXC Invitational. Photo: Ed Lull

Woodrow Wilson sophomore Vincent Kamami spends a lot of his time before races wrapped up in his nerves. This week, coaches and race directors were right with him.

As rain continued to fall on the D.C. area, the fates of weekend invitationals were once again in doubt. On Friday, Fauquier County, Va.’s Octoberfest Invitational pulled the plug, like Oatlands two weeks before and Maryland’s Track and Trail before that, driven by concerns about how courses would survive the onslaught of spikes and body weight.

Looking back at 26 years of the Marine Corps Marathon with Race Director Rick Nealis

By Sarah Beth Hensley

Published September 27, 2018 at 10:56AM | Updated October 2, 2018 at 3:55PM

Marine Corps Marathon race director Rick Nealis shows off one of his favorite mugs in 2013. Photo: Rebekah Hanover Petit

This year’s Marine Corps Marathon may be just like previous years’ races. And that’s just fine with Race Director Rick Nealis.

He’s seen a lot during the quarter century he has led the October race: cheating, celebrity runners (namely, Oprah), security concerns and even a scandal in which runners were urinating dangerously close to Arlington National Cemetery graves. Now in his 26th year leading “The People’s Marathon,” things “surprisingly … look like the status quo,” he said.

Running Shorts

By Charlie Ban

Published September 25, 2018 at 3:29PM | Updated September 26, 2018 at 4:19PM

Klingle Valley Trail closing for most of the next three months, Montgomery County natural trails closed until Thursday, MCM deferment deadline Wednesday at 11:59 and Arlington Memorial Bridge closed this weekend.

Javon Watt’s Prince George’s Invitational title keeps her undefeated at Fort Washington Park

By Charlie Ban

Published September 22, 2018 at 6:54PM

Brandon Lewis leads toward the end of the Prince George's County Invitational. Photo: Charlie Ban

Long, dewy grass at Fort Washington Park presented a challenge at runners at the Prince George’s County Invitational. So did “the General,” a long hill from the bank of the Potomac River.

That was alright for Eleanor Roosevelt coach Nayda Pierla, whose teams won the boys’ competition 36-90 over Parkdale and girls finished second behind Flowers 27-54. Roosevelt junior Brandon Lewis on the individual title in 17:49, while C.H. Flowers junior Javon Watts remained undefeated at Fort Washington Park for her career, winning by more than 90 seconds in 21:14. It’s a few seconds slower than her winning time last year, but the grass on the course had not been mowed.

Runner stabbed to death Sept. 18 in Logan Circle

By Charlie Ban

Published September 19, 2018 at 6:13PM | Updated September 25, 2018 at 3:30PM

Mourners have left flowers outside of the Asian American restaurant where Wendy Martinez was stabbed. Photo: Charlie Ban

D.C. police charged 23-year-old Anthony Crawford of Northwest D.C. with first degree murder in connection with Wendy Martinez’s death Sept. 18 while she was running in Logan Circle.

Running Shorts

By Charlie Ban

Published September 18, 2018 at 12:59PM | Updated September 18, 2018 at 1:37PM

Jillian Pollack finishes the 2018 Cherry Blossom ten Mile Run. Photo: Dustin Whitlow/DWhit Photography

Arlington’s Jillian Pollack qualified for the 2020 Olympic Marathon Trials by running 2:44:44 at the Berlin Marathon Sunday, 294 locals sign up for Boston, Marine Corps Marathon medal wins award of it own.