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Race Report -Trail Half Marathon at Walnut Creek

Wow. I learned so much during this race. I don’t know what it is about races that makes them so much more educational than training runs, but this trail race was way different that my weekly trail runs with the Charlottesville Trail Running Club.
I signed up for this race about two months ago, when I [...]

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Race Report – Charlottesville Fall Classic 10k

55:25/8:57 PR
This morning was the Charlottesville Fall Classic 10k, a race run by the Charlottesville Running Company. I went into the race with a primary goal of beating my previous 10k best – 1:00:01 at Zooma Annapolis – and a secondary goal of sub-57:00. I planned to run 9:30 min/miles and then go all out [...]

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Race Report – Virginia 10 Miler 2009

This past Saturday I joined a friend of mine in driving to Lynchburg to run in the Virginia 10 Miler. It was really short notice – on Thursday she told me that her roommate had bailed on her (apparently visiting a boyfriend is more important than running! The horror!) and she really didn’t want to [...]

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