Northwest Navigator (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
A USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) Sailor placed fifth among the 21,379 runners who crossed the finish line in the 2009 Marine Corps Marathon (MCM) last month. “This time I really just wanted to jump into it and just go for it,” said Gunner’s Mate 3rd Class Corey Duquette, of Pensacola, Fla., who ran the 26.2 mile race through the nation’s capitol, crossing the Marine Corps War...
Reasoned Audacity (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Hannah & John at the Suntrust Richmond Marathon November 14, 2009 Yorktown High School students Hannah, 16, and John Yoest, 14, from Arlington, Virginia completed the Suntrust Richmond Marathon on November 14, 2009. Hannah credits her crew training for her sub-six hour time. "Our crew coach [Carol Dinion] tells us to put in the miles and to be focused," said Hannah. John reports that...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Derek McGinnis proudly points to a display of running bibs hung on the wall of his garage. There's one from the 2006 Marine Corps Marathon, one from the 2006 Army 10-Miler, one from the 2007 Alcatraz Challenge.
Haraka Haraka Haina Baraka (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
I love this time of year because it’s marathon season, and so each city’s paper inevitably has an article or two about running in anticipation of hosting tens of thousands of crazed marathon runners for a weekend. I ran the Marine Corps marathon several years ago, my first and only marathon, and I’ve run several [...]
prsync (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
On October 25th, the United States Marine Corps hosted their annual marathon in the nation's capital. This 26.2 mile journey through the streets and past the historical sites and monuments was a thrill. The 4:45 am wake-up call was not.read more
Not Born to Run (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Marathon day dawned bright, cold, and clear. In all the time we spent together on Saturday, I cleverly made sure never to ask Dianna what she'd be wearing. I guessed something orange (she is the running chick with the ORANGE hat, after all). More fail. I climbed up out of Smithsonian Metro station just past mile marker 19, hoping I hadn't missed her, and taking a wild guess that she'd be wearing something...
Not Born to Run (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Last weekend was a whirlwind. My bloggy (and now real-life) friend, Dianna, was coming into town to BQ at the MCM (I love it when I talk like that) and I was lucky enough to watch her do it. I'd met Dianna (aka the running chick with the orange hat ) in the flesh only once before, when she ran Boston in 2007 , like this: I think this was around mile 9 And prior to that, I had only talked to her once,...
DVIDS RSS 2.0 Feed (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Men and women looking down an empty stretch of road, dimly lit by street lamps and emergency vehicle lights, anticipated their upcoming challenge. Not more than a few hundred meters of pavement stretched in front of them, but rounding the turn at the end of this road began a 26.2-mile test of willpower.
DCist (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Based on DCist photography contributor Brian Knight 's photographs, yesterday's Marine Corps Marathon was a passionate whirlwind of emotions: elation, sadness, struggle, and whimsy, all in a blur of movement and color. It's appropriate then, that such an exhausting event required an earlier-than-roosters wake-up call for our intrepid photographer -- of course, DCist managing and arts editor Heather...
DCist (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
The DCist flickr pool is full of great outdoor shots from this past weekend. Between the Marine Corps Marathon , the bright fall leaves , and some spectacular sunsets it is obvious that our contributing photographers were out enjoying the great fall weather. This image from the Perry Belmont Mansion by lightboxdc caught my eye because of the great use of the light. The strip of orange sun, contrasting...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
The team organized by CBS news correspondent Kimberly Dozier in honor of CBS Radio News correspondent Cami McCormick raised $12,000 over the weekend, all benefiting Fisher House. The Fisher House team participated in a 10K which was part of the Marine Corps Marathon. "My single hour-twenty or so run (at a Penguin pace, but hey, I finished, and I never stopped running) raised more than $12,000...
Learning to Fly (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Yesterday was the Marine Corps Marathon and 10k. I ran (the 10k, of course – no marathons until 2010), but there was a very different feeling at the end of this race – both in finishing the 10k and in watching the marathoners. What struck me most wasn’t my time or how I did. This [...]
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
John Mentzer took early control of the 34th running of the Marine Corps Marathon and spent the rest of his Sunday morning on a solo but scenic tour of the District. For the lieutenant commander at the Portsmouth (N.H.) Naval Shipyard, this was not his first tour of duty at the Marine Corps Marathon. But it certainly was his most memorable as he pulled away from his last challenger and won with a time...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
John Mentzer won in his debut at 26.2 miles on Sunday, taking the 34th annual Marine Corps Marathon by more than three minutes. Mentzer, 33, a lieutenant commander in the Navy who is stationed in Kittery, Maine, won in 2 hours, 21 minutes, 47 seconds to beat Air Force Capt. Jacob Johnson . Mentzer took the lead about eight miles in and was in command by the 10th mile. Muliye Gurme of Ethiopia won the...
The Jew and the Carrot (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
The Crossroads spirit was with me on Sunday. At 6 a.m., I headed down to the starting line of Washington D.C.’s Marine Corps Marathon decked out in my Crossroads Farmers Market shirt and fortified by a well-wishing card from the market’s director. (For the curious foodies or athletic nutrition geeks, I should also mention that [...]
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