Gotta love cyclists...

Mark Cavendish, points leader in the sprint race at the Tour de France, response to allegations that he called some French douchebag a "frog" in the peloton.  

Basically, "I'm not a racist, I'm just an asshole".

"I get a little hot-headed sometimes, but it's irrelevant the nationality of the rider when you get arsey at someone.  When you're a rider with a public profile, you can't be friends with everybody, it's going to be like that.  For sure I'm going to get arsey at some lad, because I'm an asshole.  But their nationality, and what they look like, and where they come from, is irrelevant."

Vive le Tour.

Great Raabe Interview in RW

Raabe ran up to 145 mpw in prep for Grandmas.

http://dailynews.runnersworld.com/2009/07/a-brief-chat-with-christopher-raabe.html

Ryan McGrath

He got hit by a car in New Jersey last week & is banged up pretty bad. Nothing life-threatening or hopefully career-ending, but he's got a laundry list of broken bones & torn joint issues (knee/shoulder).

Be careful out there. Here's to a fast recover to our good friend up north.

Twilighter Logistics & Wed Workout

Tomorrow, Wednesday, a bunch of us are meeting at B-CC for 3-5 miles of speedwork at 6:30pm. We'll fine-tune the workout during the warm-up as some will likely go less/more per the race and their own needs/wants.

I suggest we meet HERE, at the invited runner room, on Saturday at 7:00pm. At the room we can get our bib number, ditch our bag, hydrate and then head out for a warm-up circa 7:45pm. The gun goes off at 8:45pm. There are a lot of runners and it gets a little confusing, so try and get to the room no later than 7:30 if you want to partake in the warm-up. Please wear the singlet and whatever other GRC garb you might have. I am going to run a sloooow cooldown just after the race before hitting up the Michelobe Ultra tent. Post-race gathering at Gordon-Biersch just a block or two from the finish.

FINAL (as far as I know) GRC ROSTER

Patrick Reaves
Jake Klim
Patrick Murphy
Nate Timm
Chris Sloane
Neal Hannan
Dirk de Heer
Billy Askey

FLASH: Breakthrough Tri Performances

Matias and Jerdonek have breakthroughs in separate triathlons on opposite coasts...

Rhode Island Half Ironman
1.2m swim
56m bike
13.1m run

Matias: Averaged 24.4 mph over 56 miles on the bike, and dropped a 1:20 marathon on a challenging half marathon course.

8th overall, if he had raced as a professional, he would have walked away with $1000.

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San Francisco Triathlon
1.5k Swim
40k Bike
10k Run

Lindsey ran her way into second place at the San Francisco triathlon, her first ITU race...earns $2000 for her silver effort. She debuts at no. 200 in world tri rankings.

WRR Spring Rankings

The goal of the runner rankings is to rank the best runners of Washington, DC, Maryland, or Virginia, in five-year age groups, for the purpose of stimulating competition in the Washington region. Runners are ranked only according to performances in rated races. To be rated, a race must meet the following criteria:

* Take place in Washington, D.C., Maryland, or Virginia
* Full results listed on the Washington Running Report Web site
* Must list age (and preferably also city and state of residence) of all runners
* Standard distance--5K, 4-mile, 8K, 10K, 12K, 15K, 10-mile, 20K, 1/2 Marathon, 25K, 30K, 20-mile, or Marathon
* Road race or cross-country (not track)

GRCers in RED BOLD

1 Cheruiyot, Patrick* 21 Fairfax, VA
2 Tefera, Demesse** 26 Silver Spring, MD
3 Boitt, James 33 Fairfax, VA
4 Raabe, Christopher 30 Washington, DC
5 Megerssa, Gurmesa* 29 Washington, DC
6 Crane, Steve 27 Arlington, VA
7 Young, Timothy** 22 Fredericksburg, VA
8 Abebe, Abiyot** 22 Washington, DC
9 Wardian, Michael 34 Arlington, VA
10 Hutchinson, Seth* 25 Charlottesville, VA
11 Rodriguez, Bert 29 Arlington, VA
12 Smits, Kyle 30 Baltimore, MD
13 Cheromei, David* 25 Marion, VA
14 Klim, Jake* 28 North Bethesda, MD
15 Church, Aaron* 33 South Riding, VA
16 Hurt, Charlie* 25 Scottsville, VA
17 Mance, Steve** 25 Alexandria, VA
18 Pugsley, Ray* 40 Potomac Falls, VA
19 Viviani, Will 27 Arlington, VA
20 Thele, Robert 30 Charlottesville, VA
21 Butler, Lewis* 24 Arlington, VA
22 Hryvniak, David 24 Christiansburg, VA
23 Mehmedoric, Izzy* 24 Columbia, MD
24 Bitok, Kipchirchir** 29 Baltimore, MD
25 Shirk, Kevin 29 Winchester, VA
26 Barresi, Matt 26 Falls Church, VA
27 Bray, Derryn** 24 Poquoson, VA
28 Alton, Guy 24 Richmond, VA
29 Berdan, David 28 Parkville, MD
30 Miralles Diego 26 College Park, MD
31 Murphy, Patrick 25 Washington, DC
32 Too, Daniel 32 Abingdon, MD
33 Dwyer, Jason 29 Arlington, VA
34 Wade, Robert** 26 Arlington, VA
35 Reaves, Patrick 24 Silver Spring, MD
36 Fritzius, Justin* 22 Purcellville, VA
37 Schaefer, Tim 30 Gaithersburg, MD
38 Burke, Edmund 39 Burtonsville, MD
39 Outaleb, Mouhcine** 31 Baltimore, MD
40 Blasiak, Sam 29 Arlington, VA
41 Carrier, Chris* 24 Richmond, VA
42 Karari, Hashison 31 Burke, VA
43 Keith, Dylan 24 Arlington, VA
44 Miller, Dave 25 Leesburg, VA
45 Mercer, Dickson* 27 Takoma Park, MD
46 Shaeffer, Chris 24 Purcellville, VA
47 Anderson, Scott* 35 Washington, DC
48 Pierret, Derrin** 24 Williamsburg, VA
49 Bain, Christopher 31 North Bethesda, MD
50 Fahey, Tim 35 Arlington, VA
51 Carroll, Ryan**** 26 Portsmouth, VA
52 O'Hara, David 33 Washington, DC
53 Daly, Jimmy 22 Washington, DC
54 Askey, Billy 26 Arlington, VA
55 Campbell, Jared 23 Alexandria, VA
56 Duncan, Andrew* 41 Washington, DC
57 Peters, Garth 29 Annandale, VA
58 Saunders, Richard 20 Glen Allen, VA
59 Tompkins, Mark** 33 Williamsburg, VA
60 Copley, Brian 21 Washington, DC
61 Stenholm, Pekka 36 Columbia, MD
62 Budiansky, Andrew 18 Williamsburg, VA
63 Stevenson, Andrew 23 Washington, DC
64 Ingham, George 24 Herndon, VA
65 Rolph, Andrew* 33 Alexandria, VA
66 Myers, Jason** 23 Virginia Beach, VA
67 Derose, Chris 20 Richmond, VA
68 Dowdy, Jason 33 Richmond, VA
69 Hughes, Patrick 22 Washington, DC
70 Guglielmo, Kyle 23 Virginia Beach, VA
71 Green, Jake 24 Arlington, VA
72 Turco, Edi 36 Arlington, VA

GRC TV: Midsummer's Night Mile

UPDATE: THE LINE on Sunday

UPDATE: 8:30AM at THE LINE

Waffles 'n Junk

In order to continue the brunch tradition y'all are invited over to my apartment across the bridge from the Georgetown store for waffles 'n junk after the saturday morning run.

-Dylan

BIOMECHANICS CLINIC AND EVALUATION

Biomechanical Gait Analysis-Max Lockwood from Georgetown RunCo on Vimeo.

TOWPATH AND TERREL HALE

are providing complimentary biomechanics evaluations this Saturday from 1-3pm at the Chevy Chase store. Towpath will be videotaping people's gaits and Terrel will be assessing whether there are imbalances in one's posture. This is a great way to determine whether one is favoring one side or showing a weakness that could lead to injury.

upon completion of the evaluation, you will receive a DVD of your evaluation along with an assessment.

Please give a shout if you are interested in participating.

Max

Wednesday Workout

Does anyone plan to do one? If so, what?

I will join for part/half since I am racing a mile on Friday.

July 4 Racing

Peachtree
Reaves drops minute off of previous course best...

Wilson Komen - 31:14 - 46th
Patrick Reaves - 32:50 - 80th
Melissa Tanner - 36:43 - 212 (34th female)

Results

Autism Speaks 5k
Donning GRC singlets for the first time, Dirk and Sloane run 15:30 and 16:48 respectively.

Anyone else?