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Marine Corps Marathon Charity Partners Program

Published September 30, 2013 at 10:00AM | Updated August 10, 2015 at 12:30PM

MARINE CORPS DOES NOT REqUIRE ITS PARTICIPATING CHARITIES TO PAY ANY KIND OF FEES OR PREMIUMS, MEANING ALL MONEY RAISED THROUGH THE CHARITY PROGRAM RUNNING GOES DIRECTLY TO THE ORGANIZATIONS.

For runners who missed out on general registration for the Marine Corps Marathon, the Charity Partners Program offers a chance to enter late and raise money for a good cause.

Marine Corps is unique among marathons because it does not require its participating charities to pay any kind of fees or premiums, meaning all money raised through the charity program running goes directly to the organizations. This year, 4,674 runners will raise money for 101 different 501 (c) (3) organizations, from the longstanding MCM team for Injured Marines Semper Fi Fund to the brand new to MCM Alergy & Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics team.

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A last chance for Boston, right on the towpath

By Rebecca Fritchman

Published September 15, 2013 at 8:39PM | Updated August 10, 2015 at 12:30PM

Grace Hierro, Eugene Koonin and Grant Powell chase Boston qualifiers at the Abebe Bikila Marathon. Photo: Antonio Estrada

The inaugural Abebe Bikila marathon kicked off at 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. Saturday on a day which could be described as a runner’s dream.

The temperature was in the low 60s at the start and did not crest above 75. This race has run for many years as solely a half-marathon, but this year a 26.2 mile event was added, mainly out of demand for a Saturday race which could be used as last chance Boston qualifier.

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Marine Corps Marathon eliminates large hill (not THAT one)

By Dickson Mercer

Published August 20, 2013 at 5:44PM | Updated August 10, 2015 at 12:31PM

Changes to the Marine Corps Marathon course are exciting local runners and likely going to mean faster times this October.

Runners will not have to endure a big hill around the Georgetown Reservoir between miles seven and eight. Instead, from miles six through nine, runners will run up Rock Creek Parkway to the bottom of Calvert Street and back, a stretch used in the Navy and Nike Women’s half marathons, as the MCM course returns to a pre-2007 design.

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Indoor marathon adds 50k, Wardian sets provisional world record

By Charlie Ban

Published July 14, 2013 at 6:45PM | Updated August 10, 2015 at 12:31PM

Centreville's Eric Setash runs his bell lap of the Grant Pierce Indoor 50k flanked by his children. Photo: Charlie Ban

Cathy Ahn has been on the lookout for strange and unique races this year. She found one, a few miles from her Arlington home.

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Potomac River Marathon pave the path to Boston and Personal Records

By Jamie Corey

Published May 5, 2013 at 2:43PM | Updated August 10, 2015 at 12:32PM

Jason Fitzgerald of Silver Spring nears the halfway mark of the Potomac River Run Marathon Sunday. Photo: Cheryl Young

The factors that made Sunday’s race could have been the perfect weather, the flat course on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Towpath, or months of hard work and training. Whatever the factors were, the 10th annual Potomac River Run Marathon seemed to have the perfect combination of elements that allowed many participants to qualify for the Boston Marathon and, for many, achieve a new personal record.

[button-red url=”http://youngrunner.smugmug.com/Race-Photo-Galleries/PRR-2013-Marathon-Half/i-vDjDfS6″ target=”_self” position=”left”]Photos[/button-red]Weeks before Strength Running Coach Jason Fitzgerald passed the leader at mile 24.5 at Sunday’s race, he was cheering on two of his athletes in the Boston Marathon at mile 25.5. Afterward, he went to a restaurant in Cambridge, where his phone started to ring. His family and friends had heard what had happened at the race.

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High School Lacrosse Players Wins the Inaugural Runner’s Marathon of Reston

By Dorothy Beal

Published March 25, 2013 at 8:28PM | Updated August 10, 2015 at 12:33PM

Half marathoners head out of South Lakes High School during the Runners Half Marathon of Reston. Photo: Dorothy Beal

It wasn’t Metro accessible, there weren’t bands every mile and the race might not have had the panache of a national series, but sure enough, a marathon went off Saturday morning in Northern Virginia.

The inaugural Runner’s Marathon of Reston and accompanying half marathon took charge of the streets and trails in a race that billed itself as being “designed by runners, for runners.”

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Texan breaks Wardian’s marathon win streak at Rock ‘n’ Roll USA

By Charlie Ban

Published March 16, 2013 at 9:52PM | Updated August 10, 2015 at 12:33PM

Rock 'n' Roll USA Marathon winner Peter Lawrence presses defending champion Michael Wardian at 14 miles. Photo: Charlie Ban

For the seventh year in a row, Washington, D.C.’s spring marathon champion was a college athlete who competed for something other than a track team. For the first time, though, it wasn’t former lacrosse player Michael Wardian.

[button-red url=”http://running.competitor.com/cgiresults?eId=54″ target=”_self” position=”left”] Results [/button-red]Peter Lawrence came to Washington with his family for a spring break trip requested by his daughter.After 20 hours of driving, with stops in New Orleans, Atlanta, the now-41-year-old, who played tennis at the Virginia Military Institute hit town for a week of sightseeing with a cadre of elementary school-age children.

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Preparing for the season ahead, runners conquer Greenbelt

By Jamie Corey

Published February 19, 2013 at 12:14AM | Updated August 10, 2015 at 12:33PM

Winds up to 30 miles per hour, snow flurries in 30 degrees, rolling hills and plenty of warm chili — it’s all in preparation for springtime races and a long-time tradition for the DC Road Runners Club. At the 52nd annual Washington’s Birthday Marathon and Relay, the club brought in more than 500 runners to race on some of Greenbelt’s most challenging roads in an effort to get the athletes primed for the season ahead.

“You don’t get the intensity if you train on your own that you do in a race,” said overall marathon winner Miles Aitken, 29, of Washington D.C.