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Crystal City Twilighter runners get a break from the heat

Published July 27, 2015 at 11:59AM | Updated August 18, 2015 at 12:34PM

The corral is about to burst at the seams before the Crystal City Twilighter. Photo: Brian W. Knight/Swim Bike Run Photography

Emerging from the Metro station felt different this year to the 1,700 runners who turned out for the Crystal City Twilighter 5k Saturday. Even before the sun went down, cooler, drier air prevailed over a course that once boasted 98 degree temperatures during the 2011 race.

The favorable conditions were lost on many of the top-tier runners who didn’t return, which affected the race’s depth. The 28 men who finished faster than 16 minutes in 2014 was cut to 10 in 2015. The 10 sub-19 minute women from 2014 held steady.

Beginner ultra runners get trial by fire at Rosaryville

By Charlie Ban

Published July 24, 2015 at 1:03PM | Updated August 18, 2015 at 12:34PM

Jarrod Brennet nears 20 miles in the Rosaryville 50k. Photo: Charlie Ban

Despite the reliable mercury-busting temperatures, Don Bowman insists that the Rosaryville Trail races are aimed at beginner ultra runners. This year’s running of the 10k, 10 mile, 25k and 50k runs around Rosaryville State Park took place on the hottest day of the year, with dew points bottoming out in the low 70s and temperatures reaching the mid 90s five hours into the race.

[button-red url=”http://www.bluepointtiming.com/files/results/2015/Rosaryville%20overall.htm” target=”_self” position=”left”] Results [/button-red]”We designed it for the novice runners,” Bowman, the race director, said. “They get to run next to the runners who are experienced and they can say they ran with these great trail runners, they don’t have three legs or anything special. They learn that they could be like the people in the front if the race agrees with them and they want to improve.”

Marathoner Will Etti: Family Man and Cheerleader

By Emily Rabbitt

Published July 22, 2015 at 3:01PM | Updated July 22, 2015 at 3:52PM

Photo: Dustin Whitlow

Read the first article about Will Etti here.

Nobody has a bad thing to say about Will Etti.

Sullivan and Kebede claim first-place finishes in Rockville Twilight 8k

By Elton Hayes

Published July 19, 2015 at 9:26PM | Updated August 18, 2015 at 12:33PM

The Rockville Rotary Twilighter starting line. Photo: Dan Reichmann

Susanna Sullivan narrowly missed a first-place finish in the 2014 Rockville Rotary Twilight Runfest when Etaferahu Temesgen shattered a race record to edge her by 10 seconds. This year, Sullivan made sure she ended up on the other end of a close race.

[button-red url=”https://www.mcrrc.org/race-results/2015/07/twilight-runfest-8k-women/” target=”_self” position=”left”] Women’s Results [/button-red]“Last year I lost in a kick so I really wanted to be conservative early and make sure that I was ready to kick at the end,” Sullivan, 24, said. “One of my teammates asked me if I looked back in the last half mile. I told her I didn’t, because I didn’t want to see where (runner up Elfinesh Melaku) was and didn’t want to see her right over my shoulder and panic.”

RunWashington’s Fall Marathoners: Meet Amelia McKeithen

By Emily Rabbitt

Published July 12, 2015 at 9:59PM | Updated August 10, 2015 at 12:14PM

Amelia McKeithen (left) before the 2014 Rock 'n' Roll USA Half Marathon, for which she was the top fundraiser for Girls on the Run DC. Photo: MarathonFoto

In the months leading up to 2015’s Fall marathons, RunWashington will follow 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. Peer pressure and convinced Amelia McKeithen, of D.C., to sign up for the Marine Corps Marathon, but her fundraising goal will help her stick with her training.

RunWashington’s Fall Marathoners: Meet Matt Deters

By Emily Rabbitt

Published July 11, 2015 at 7:58PM | Updated July 11, 2015 at 8:50PM

Matt Deters Photo: Cheryl Young

In the months leading up to 2015’s Fall marathons, RunWashington will follow 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. Matt Deters is an Arlingtonian who resumed running seriously a few years ago and has improved rapidly. Given his druthers, he’d already have retired from the marathon, but he’s giving it another shot.

Kerri Gallagher makes world championship team

By Charlie Ban

Published July 7, 2015 at 12:44PM | Updated July 19, 2015 at 6:05PM

Around D.C., she’s known as the three-time Army Ten-Miler winner. Nationally, she’s the 1500 meter runner who has thrived at the USA Track and Field championships two of the last three years, finishing third on June 28.

Ethiopian marathoners sweep first-place finishes at Firecracker 5k

By Ashley Davidson

Published July 4, 2015 at 10:19PM | Updated August 18, 2015 at 12:34PM

Sarah Bord, of Lorton, leads a group of Team RWB runners at the Firecracker 5k. Photo: Dustin Whitlow

[button-red url=”http://s3.amazonaws.com/media.racebx.com/transfer/gen/5/5/9/5597e27f-9054-456c-9455-52afc0a86526/2015-Firecracker-Overall.htm” target=”_self” position=”left”] Results [/button-red]The crowd erupted as Abu Kebede Diriba and Gregory Mariano rounded the corner onto Market Street in the final 200 meters of the Firecracker 5k, Saturday at Reston Town Center. The men had pounded the wet pavement neck and neck for most of the race, and now cut through the rain in a fight to the finish. But after a quick glance over his right shoulder, Diriba, an Ethiopian marathoner living in New York, gave one final kick to cross the finish line in 15:30 — just one second ahead of Alexandria’s Mariano.

Ben Dickshinski, a senior at North Central College in Naperville, Ill., and an All-American in the 5000m this spring, placed third in the men’s race in 15:53.

Places in D.C. not to run (I know because I’ve tried)

By Katie Bo Williams

Published June 29, 2015 at 2:00PM

Okay my runners, joggers, ‘yoggers’ and you freaks who run 8-minute miles with a goddamn duallie stroller full of tiny human free-weights attached to your arms, let’s admit what we all know to be true: There are some pretty terrible places to run in this city. People talk about how D.C. was made for runners — gorgeous views of historic monuments, the smell of cherry blossoms and freedom in the air, the dream of running in the Marine Corps Marathon, whatever.

That is all well and good, but it paints an inaccurate picture of what running in this city actually is, which is sweat and misery. Because I am an idiot and will try to run anywhere, I have spent many miles and hours in a variety of inclement weather running around in D.C. and with a few exceptions, it has been fundamentally terrible. (Notably, this has not stopped me.)

Running shorts, June 29

By Charlie Ban

Published June 29, 2015 at 12:45PM | Updated June 29, 2015 at 2:50PM

Kerri Gallagher pushes the pace against the USATF 1500m field, including eventual champ Jenny Simpson. Photo: Michael Scott

Local runners won four events at the USATF Outdoor Nationals: TC Williams’ Noah Lyles in the 100m (10.14) and 200m (20.18), Lake Braddock’s Kate Murphy in the 1500m (4:16.98) and […]