He was beating the bridge, and everyone else, when Trevor Lafontaine wondered if he had made his move too soon.
He hadn’t, but he had good cause to wonder.
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Joe Divel can’t wait to run his first marathon. With one final 20 mile run and just three weeks away from the Marine Corps Marathon, Divel is riding a high of anticipation. At a recent event with the First Time Marathoners (FTM) that opened with a group run, Joe got a taste of the final hill leading up to the Iwo Jima memorial. The group’s coaches lined the road leading to where the finish line will be set up to give runners like Joe just a taste of what the thrill of race day will be like.
“As we came up the street, all the coaches were there cheering us on and I thought – 100% I am ready for the Marine Corps Marathon,” Divel said. He’s so primed with anticipation he’s sure that he won’t be able to sleep the night before.
Amelia McKeithen is ready for the Marine Corps Marathon. As she predicted herself early on in her training, she hasn’t followed a particular plan to prepare. McKeithen likes to run when she feels like it instead of when the calendar says she has too, but still she’s managed to log an impressive amount of miles, even if she’s not keeping track. She’s done two 20-milers, even though she skipped her final training run. “The training plan said I should run 20 miles on the weekend of the 3rd, but I’m a fair weather runner. I’ll run if it’s cold out but not if it’s gross out,” McKeithen said. The combination of the wet weekend and a wedding to attend kept McKeithen from logging her final long run, but she thinks it will be ok.
She’s looking toward race day with a mixture of excitement, a touch of competitive spirit, and has started worrying about some of the details. But she’s not letting any of her minor concerns stand in the way of having a good time.
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The Georgetown Prep Classic gave plenty of cross country teams a change of scenery.
A collection of local and out-of-town teams that rarely, if ever, compete against each other made the race unpredictable, because few runners know their competitors’ tendencies.
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Dulaney coach Chad Boyle was not romanticizing when he said the Glory Days Invitational flew under the radar as a top cross country meet.
“This is an unbelievably competitive meet,” he said. “Kirstin Meek should be in the hunt for top three in the 4A meet and she was 12th today.”
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For three months in 2012, a small corner of the Internet – the world for high school runners in Montgomery County – went dark. Kevin Milsted, the man behind MoCo Running, took his website offline. He thought he’d had enough.
Burned out and having lost his full-time job, Milsted decided it was time to give up the website that been consuming so much of his time, energy and soul. He would spend entire weekends going to races, writing articles, producing videos. Sundays were spent upgrading the website.
In the months leading up to 2015’s Fall marathons, RunWashington is following several local runners as they prepare for their races. We’ll chart their progress as they train their legs, lungs and minds for the challenges they’ll race on race day. Each week, we’ll catch up with our runners and see how they’re doing. This is our third story about Amelia McKeithen, you can read the first and second.
Amelia McKeithen just completed her first ever 20 mile training run after a three week layoff, and she feels great. After a slight mishap on a trampoline turned out to have more lasting effects than she had anticipated, McKeithen went ahead and rested up, enjoying sleeping in instead of waking up early for morning workouts and catching up on TV shows she hadn’t had time to watch.
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Name: Ashley Davidson
Self-described age group: 33 – an “older” millennial
Either way you sliced it, the race was a perfect 10.
If they chose to run 10 kilometers or 10 miles, runners passed judgment on the race like a gymnastics judge. But unlike the finely-tuned routines on the mats, runners could improvise mid-race and choose to cut it short or add another 3.8 miles to their run.
In the months leading up to 2015’s Fall marathons, RunWashington is following several local runners as they prepare for their races. We’ll chart their progress as they train their legs, lungs and minds for the challenges they’ll race on race day. Each week, we’ll catch up with our runners and see how they’re doing. This is the fourth story about Will Etti, read the first, second and third.
Will Etti is ready to tackle the Marine Corps Marathon once again, and this time, he thinks he’s ready for it. Since this year’s iconic DC race falls on Will Etti’s 39th birthday, he’s chosen it from the two options he was considering.