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| Cheering with Freddy [photo courtesy Potomac River Running] |
Rick and his "trainees"
Rick is a personal trainer at Lifetime Fitness and he encourages his peeps to run races. Today Sharon, Brenda, and Brittany came out to run. They motivate each other and they are fun to run with - I ran with Sharon and Brenda last year in the "Run with Santa 5k." Sharon also helped keep Freddy motivated for his first 5k, the "Commitment Day 5k", by encouraging him to beat the Grinch, who was also running. They all ran last year's Firecracker 5k, too!
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| Rick sporting his US World Cup jersey Surprisingly, we only saw one other runner with this shirt! [photo courtesy Potomac River Running] |
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| 2013 Firecracker 5k (since I can't find any pics of this crew from this year) back: Brenda, Rick, Brittany, Cindy; front: Sharon, Michael |
Photo update: finish line pictures came up late for Brenda, Brittany, and Sharon:
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| Brenda, wearing the awesome blue shirt from 2013's race [photo courtesy Potomac River Running] |
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| Brittany, always smiling! (you can also see Karen's cute socks on the right) [photo courtesy Potomac River Running] |
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| Sharon always looks like her races were effortless! [photo courtesy Potomac River Running] |
I've been training with Potomac River Running since last fall, including Running 101, Cherry Blossom, and now Distance Training Program, so I have met a lot of people through =PR= training.
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| Laura coming in strong at the finish! This was her fastest 5k this year! [photo courtesy Potomac River Running] |
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| Karen with a tutu she MADE HERSELF! [photo courtesy Karen] |
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| late photo addition: Karen's finish line pic! (see Brittany's photo for Karen's cute socks) [photo courtesy Potomac River Running] |
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| Christina running strong at Mile 3. I miss running with Christina so much! Christina's next big challenge is Army Ten Miler [photo courtesy Potomac River Running] |
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| Lynn has been running with me since last fall through three different training programs! Her next goal is the Perfect 10k [photo courtesy Potomac River Running] |
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| Marian has also been running with me since last fall Look at all of that patriotic spirit! She's thinking about a half marathon for this fall... [photo courtesy Potomac River Running] |
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| Jen is another fall 101 running buddy She is close to finishing off 40k in racing for 2014! [photo courtesy Potomac River Running] |
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| Lisa is coming off an injury and is inspiring! She ran a 6:46 pace today - wow! [photo courtesy Potomac River Running] |
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| Coach Adam, our =PR= track coach He scored a PR today of 18:26! [photo courtesy Potomac River Running] |
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| Amy, Sally, and Amy Amy & Amy are running the Army Ten Miler in October! Freddy adores Sally from "March with Babies" volunteering [photo courtesy Sally] |
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| go, Sally, go! [photo courtesy Potomac River Running] |
Women's Training Program Ladies
The WTP just wrapped up with a celebratory party last Monday. I met many wonderful women in this program and I'm already looking forward to next year!
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| Bringing the WTP spirit to the Firecracker 5k Yellow shirts are coaches! [photo courtesy of Agnรจs] |
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| Coach Molly - one of the WTP co-directors She is super inspirational! [photo courtesy Potomac River Running] |
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| Coach Roz - love her running skirt and the "thumbs up" finish line pose [photo courtesy Potomac River Running] |
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| Coach Louisa - she won the Ann Deschamps Power of Women Award for providing vision, inspiration, and motivation to help women athletes. Cool, huh? [photo courtesy Potomac River Running] |
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| Coach Sylvia, who I ran with the most in WTP Behind her in yellow is Coach Donna Lea [photo courtesy Potomac River Running] |
Moms Run This Town Mamas
We are lucky to have so many chapters of MRTT in this area! MRTT is a free running club for women to help support and motivate them in their running journeys. My home chapter is Herndon/Reston, but I'm fortunate to have buddies in several other local chapters as well.
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| Moms Run This Town multi-chapter picture |
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| This is Debbie in the red, she is in the Ashburn MRTT Debbie came in 3rd in her age group today! She has a great blog: Deb Runs - check it out! [photo courtesy Potomac River Running] |
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| Deborah Brooks - McLean/Tysons MRTT Chapter Leader How cool is her tank?! "Moms salute this town" Check out her blog: Confessions of a Mother Runner [photo courtesy Potomac River Running] |
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| Erin Troia - Ashburn MRTT Chapter Leader She always has amazing outfits! [photo courtesy Potomac River Running] |
Joshua Duggar
Joshua Duggar ran the 5k and there were TLC camera crews everywhere. It was a little surreal. A bunch of my friends finished around the same time he did, and there are no finish line photos from that section on the PR photo site. Maybe they will be in the episode when it airs on TV?
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| Joshua Duggar with the TLC crews [photo courtesy Potomac River Running] |
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| Joshua Duggar watches the kids' "fun run" [photo courtesy Potomac River Running] |
It was great to see you there! Maybe one of these days we can run a race together! Thanks for the shout out to my blog. Have a great rest of your 4th!
ReplyDeleteIt was great to see you too! I know we will run together one of these days :)
DeleteAw, man, I wish I'd known that you would be there. One of these days we will officially meet!
DeleteIt was great seeing you, Rick and Freddy yesterday! I absolutely LOVE the picture PRR took of you and Freddy! It's so sweet!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the shout out!
Thank you Debbie! It was great to see you, too :)
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