Capital Area Runners

Capital Area Runners is a DC metropolitan area club that was founded to provide group training opportunities for highly motivated and competitive minded runners of all ability levels. We meet for organized workouts 4 days per week with the Saturday and Sunday sessions open to all comers, and the Tuesday and Friday sessions open to registrants in the CAR Distance Training Program. We have a current membership of 120+ runners, most of whom are training for distances ranging from 5k through the marathon.

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Results

January 8, 2024 Race Results

Anna Bernal was 4th overall female at the Al Lewis 5 Miler in 34:52.  Jessica Chin Somers ran 43:27 at the Joe Kleinerman 10k in NYC.  Callie Wallace competed in 2 events at the Ocean Breeze Freedom Games, finishing 2nd in her 1600m heat (11th in all heats combined) […]
by Cheryl
on Jan 8
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December 18, 2023 Race Results

Daryle Lademan was 3rd overall female and 1st in the 50-59 AG at the Reindeer Romp 10k in 45:13.  Nathan Napier finished 2nd overall in 1:30:35 at the Naptown Half Marathon. California CAR Lili Peng was the women’s overall winner (and 1st master) at the Santa Clara Firehouse Run 5k […]
by Cheryl
on Dec 18
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Results – December 11, 2023

At the Jingle All the Way 15k, Larry Grossman ran 1:03:10 to win the men’s 60-64 AG and Cris Burbach ran 1:08:04 to finish as the top female master and 6th overall among the women. At the Jingle All the Way 5k, Dan Lauver finished 10th overall in the men’s race in 18:13 […]
by Cheryl
on Dec 11
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Capital Area Runners Members receive 10% off at
Road Runner Sports
(that’s an additional 10% off for VIP members)!