Congrats to Kirk Masterson and Ben Stutts

A hearty congratulations to Dojoists Kirk Masterson and Ben Stutts. This past weekend, Kirk was named Washington Running Club's Runner of the Year, thanks to some fantastic performances in 2012. Stuttsy was named WRC's "Up and Comer" of the year, with some great races in 2012. 

 

Way to go, guys!

 

 

Dojo: GW Birthday Marathon Relay - Carpooling and Team Assignments - Feb 17

Team Assignments

At long last, here are the team assignments for the GW Birthday Marathon Relay:

Dojo Co-ed A: Ben Stutts, Emily Buzzell, and David Buzzell

Dojo Co-ed B: Brian Savitch, Janet Whittaker, Alan Pemberton

Dojo Co-ed C: Chris Angell, Photine Tsoukalas, Gareth Coville

Dojo Co-ed D: Dave Pittman, Bill Hamblet, Liz Lambert

Dojo Masters Men: Robert Gillanders, Rob Wolfe, Nick Haffenreffer

Dojo Open Men A: Shawn Rumery, Ryan Johnson, PJ Martinez

Dojo Open Men B: Geoff King, Daniel Yi, Chris Pruitt

Carpooling:

The race starts at 10:30 AM (Feb. 17), so my suggestion is that we leave by at least 8:30 AM to get set up and out to the exchange point. If you need a ride, reply to this email with your neighborhood and we'll set up a carpool!

Also, don't forget to bring $15 for me for the registration fee.

Good luck and thanks for running!

Dan

The 467th running of the Tidal Basin Run (no longer aptly named, since it's now run around Hains Point) was yesterday at lunch time, and three of your Dojo-mates ran it.  I don't think any of us were happy with our times, but two of us would have been happy with Henry's time.  The most remarkable stat is that the largest age group was the M60-64.  The entire results for the 5K are below:

5000 Meter Run


1 Karsten Brown M 38 Front Royal VA 16:48 1

2 Henry Wigglesworth M 54 Washington DC 17:36 2

3 Brian Savitch M 33 Washington DC 18:12 3

4 Harlan Shannon M 38 Huntingtown WV 18:14 4

5 Alan Pemberton M 60 Silver Spring MD 19:15 5

6 Brad Rippey M 46 Bunker Hill WV 19:29 6

7 Dan Eddy M 61 Alexandria VA 20:19 7

8 Mike Cannon M 54 Springfield VA 21:37 8

9 Jay Jacob Wind M 62 Arlington VA 22:22 9

10 Max Ahmadi M 57 Dunn Loring VA 22:30 10

11 Kirk Gordon M 56 Glenn Dale MD 24:34 11

12 James Moreland M 60 Gaithersburg MD 25:14 12

13 Jim Mort M 66 Burke VA 26:37 13

14 Bob Platt M 61 Arlington VA 29:46 14

15 William Guey-Lee M 64 Arlington VA 33:28 15

Cherry Blossom Team(s)

Lottery results went out yesterday.

 

If you, like me, are in, let me know. We are looking to put together a team, and I'd like to get an idea of who is available.

 

If you did not make it in, check out: http://www.cherryblossom.org/theraces/elite.php, since you may qualify as a seeded runner.

Shawn's Victory Photo

I happened to find a portrait of this cool dude gracing the front page of the Annapolis Striders website:

Club Records

This past weekend, the Dojo's Chris Pruitt scored possibly the most impressive result ever for the club when he took second place at the Baltimore Half Marathon, in 1:12:35, on a course that is hardly a race-track. Rumor has it that Chris closed the race with a 5:08 mile.

Anyway, in light of Pruitt's performance, we are opening up a "Club Records" section, highlighting the top performances run in a Dojo singlet across race distances.

Send in your top times, and we'll start updating!

Weekend Results

Brussels Marathon:

HUGE congratulations to Matthew Newman, for knocking out a big PR and a Boston qualifier this weekend at the Brussels Marathon. Matthew was an absolute trooper in workouts this past season, and all the hard work paid off big time with a 3:14:15, 45 seconds under the qualifying cutoff.

Hard to do the performance justice, so here is a link to Matthew's riveting account:
http://belgamite.blogspot.be/2012/10/heading-for-boston.html

Metric Marathon:

Also this weekend was the Annapolis Metric Marathon (26.2K), a great opportunity to get in the dreaded simulator workout. There was a 1-2 Dojo sweep at the top. Shawn absolutely crushed a 5:44/mile pace through the 26.2 kilometers, in his first ever race over a half marathon. He also had the good grace to drag me along in his slipstream. Results posted here:
http://annapolisstriders.org/2012/resultsMETR2012.htm