Crystal City 5k Fridays!

muroo

sincerely silly

posted: 4/1/2011 at 8:51 PM
modified: 4/1/2011 at 8:53 PM

About an hour before tonight's race I decided to register (to force myself to run today...and if I had it might've only been like 2 miles) and it was a really nice laid back thing. I was expecting t to be really disorganized, but it wasn't at all and it was still a nice atmosphere. I'd recommend it to any beginning runners in the DC metro area...relaxed, fun, and flat. :-) The bag check is a little sketch, but at least it's there. Complimentary showers afterwards and a happy hour too (I didn't go though).

http://pacersevents.com/crystalrun5kfridays/index.html

I also liked how the registration an hour before actually worked! I was skeptical. =P But they had iPads at the event pulling up the online registrations. Also on site registration.

I get the feeling other people might disagree but I had fun...I'm going to try and make one or two more this month! It's chip timed and I found it soooo much easier to run with a ton of other people than I do alone. Even if it is $20 a race...

shin splints are my nemesis

Julia1971

posted: 4/9/2011 at 2:30 PM

I did one or two of these last year. I wanted to do more, but from what I remember, the weather was sketchy a lot of the weekends or I couldn't get out of work early enough. But, I remember it being a good race - well run, crowded but not too crowded, easy to get to, etc.

I'm thinking maybe we should try to revive the D.C. forum. It seems like a lot of people have good race reports to share.

2012 PRs:
5Kish: 19:21 (Course probably short)

10K: coming soon

10M: 1:08:50
Half Mar.: 1:34:16

Mar.: 3:36:49 (Survivor: Boston Marathon)

Julia1971

posted: 4/16/2011 at 7:54 AM

FYI, I posted a race report in the D.C. forum if anyone's interested.

2012 PRs:
5Kish: 19:21 (Course probably short)

10K: coming soon

10M: 1:08:50
Half Mar.: 1:34:16

Mar.: 3:36:49 (Survivor: Boston Marathon)

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