Two months of nominations and three months of voting by RunWashington readers have added up to this year’s winners. Thank you to those who voted!
Marine Corps Marathon
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He was one of two of the four remaining Ground Pounders who ended their MCM-finishing streaks in 2014. Williams made it to mile 15.
He taught physiology at Old Dominion University, where he founded the Human Performance Laboratory and Wellness Institute.
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The final WMATA SafeTrack plan is out, and Metro will not be opening early for races, likely through the end of May 2017. Runners planning on the Navy-Air Force Half […]
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The D.C. area has a wealth of specialty running stores. In addition to carrying wide inventories and holding community events like group runs, their sales staffs offer technical expertise and years of experience with the sport.
The National Capital Region Draft Paved Trail Study, which helps guide development of the network of paved paths throughout the D.C. area, has been released for public review and comment […]
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The early-morning Metro trains that take runners and spectators to the D.C. area’s largest weekend races won’t happen under the accelerated maintenance plan announced Friday by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
It will be even easier for Patrick Benko to win during SafeTrack. In 2012, he took on a Sunday morning Metro commute, which RunWashington chronicled.
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Georgetown broke Villanova’s four-year streak of distance medley relay championships at the Penn Relays, then won the 4×800. Lake Braddock and Loudoun Valley won the high school DMR and a slew of high school, college and post-collegiate runners collected top-two finishes.
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For Hiruni Wijayaratne, the last six years have been a whirlwind adventure. The track star — who won a 3,200m state championship as a junior at Herndon High School — is now eyeing the chance to represent her native Sri Lanka at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing this August.
Although her career at the marathon and half marathon distances has been brief — only spanning about six months — it’s been wildly successful. Last October, she was the first-place female finisher at the Evansville Half Marathon in Indiana. A month later, her debut marathon in Indianapolis — where she clocked 2:43:35 — was just seconds shy of making the marathon trials-qualifying cut for the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials. It was fast enough, however, to qualify to compete as part of the Sri Lankan national team.
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.