It started as a game — run a mile a day until things went back to normal.
For Pat Early and his children, it was a way to keep their heads up as the world reacted to the novel coronavirus, as they adjusted to school at home and a suddenly changed world. Then things didn’t go back to normal.
MCM registration opens tomorrow, International Womxn’s Day panel, Rock Creek Park path meeting, NCAA XC qualifiers, Olympic Trials track qualifiers, local Virginia state indoor champs and podcast guests.
In any other year, a chilly Thursday morning would see a group of D.C. Road Runners gather in the pre-dawn hours at the Yorktown High School track. Paul Ryan would show up clad in his decades-old puffy U.S. Naval Academy warmup suit.
“Everyone else would be wearing tights, but Paul has this almost-plastic coat,” Rich Mendelowitz said. “It works for him, it’s all kind of old school and it fits his personality.”
Name: Omar Ali
Self-described age group: 50-55 (but I’m on the very low end of this age group)
Opportunities abound to comment on pedestrian paths, a bevy of podcasts and a GDS alumna hits it big.