Week 8 Sept. 1 is at Bluemont again

Week Eight Saturday September 1, 2007 at 7:30 am is at Bluemont Park in Arlington again. See the last post on this blog for detailed directions, or go to the dcrrc's Forum posting for information.

Matt's group will likely do ten miles on the W&OD Trail or the nearby Custis Trail (more hilly). I will lead Linda's group on a nine mile trek on the trails around there. Jeannie's group will do nine miles on the W&OD Trail as well, most likely westbound from MP 3.5 by the Bluemont Parking lot to Milepost 8 in Falls Church, a mile past the bicycle bridge over Route 7 (Broad Street to us who live in Falls Church, King Street to those who live in Alexandria, and Leesburg Pike to those who merely drive through and read highway signs). Last week's post on this blog has several links with information about the trail.

In the meantime... Run. Jeanne reports that some of you have only been running on Saturday. Naughty naughty! I was at the track workout yesterday evening. Where was everyone else? (Above. Week Six at the Memorial Bridge.)

Last week: Matt's group ran 9-10 miles on the W&OD Trail, and Kristin's group and Jeannie's group, led by Christal, ran 9 miles out and back on the W&OD Trail to half a mile past the bridge in Falls Church. It was a very hot & humid day, along the order of 105 degrees after we finished. Global warming, anyone? Fact or myth?

Next week (weeks nine and ten) we'll move to Gravelley Point in VA for two weeks before going to our last location, Haines Point (for weeks eleven and twelve).

Odds & Ends: There is a nice runner's clothing website, OMM (One More Mile) that offers a 20% discount to all dcrrc members. This is the company that this program is using to produce the unique tech shirt we'll give out to each finisher of the TMG Program. (No, you don't have to run Army to get it. But you do have to show up at practices when we hand them out.) If you visit the OMM on-line store and decide to purchase something, simply enter the code DCRR0807 for the 20% discount to be applied. (Above. Alan Webb, right, gave it his all at the World Championships in Osaka this week while finishing 8th in the 1500. The gold medal was won by American Bernard Lagat.)