Reading an article in Running Times, which mentions a guy named Franklyn Sanchez, apparently the US record holder in the 5k for juniors. I had never heard of the guy so I go searching… Apparently he’s my age and ran for Georgetown. Extra odd I had never heard of him… Well, as it turns out,

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I went and did it. Felt absolutely miserable on a 1.5 miler yesterday, but saw some pretty drastic improvements in my sinuses so I decided to give it a shot. Prerace I decided I’d just go with Caitlin. She was shooting for 7:15 pace. That’s my marathon pace so if I could do a half

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In case you haven’t seen me, I’ve had a miserable week health-wise. Sore throat, major drainage, eyes feel like they’re going to pop out of my head… I have a half marathon scheduled this weekend. Unfortunately, I don’t think I can do it. I’m still attending, and I may pace Erin or Caitlin, but I

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Last week I paced Erin to her adult PR. This week, I was feeling good, was able to get in all my training mileage, and decided to give this race a solid effort. It was a hot and somewhat windy day. My goal was 6:00 pace, which equates to an adult PR (18:49 last year).

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Been a while since an update… Nothing too noteworthy happening, but I don’t want to leave you all without an update for too long. Immediately following the race (posted below), we dug up our yard, ripped out a half dozen stumps and such, and fill up the front bed with 10 bushes and a few

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Finally, an “A” race! One that months of training goes in to. Turned out to be amazing weather, I slept pretty well, didn’t rest as much as I’d have liked to the day before (partially thanks to the clusterf$ck that was the expo; we had to wait in line 45 minutes for our numbers), but

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