2018 Food from the Bar Campaign Kickoff

Coach Kiprunning was honored to be a part of the Food from the Bar Campaign Kickoff for the third consecutive year.

This year's event marked the tenth anniversary of the campaign.  To date, Food from the Bar has helped supply approximately 3.5 million meals for food insecure populations in the DC region.

The 2018 event was sponsored by DC Road Runners and the law offices of Koonz, McKenney.

You can read more about the campaign and about the Capital Area Food Bank on the event's official website.

We've added a modest photo album from Thursday's event on the Coach Kiprunning Facebook page.  We welcome you to share and tag the album as much as you would like.

Thank you again to the event organizers for inviting us to be involved with this excellent initiative.

Coach Kiprunning Is Supporting the 2018 Food from the Bar Campaign Kickoff

For the third year in a row, Coach Kiprunning has been invited to be a part of the Food from the Bar Campaign Kickoff, sponsored by the Women's Bar Association, the Capital Area Food Bank, and DC Road Runners.

This year's event is being held this coming Thursday, April 19, at Buffalo Billiards in Dupont Circle.

We've shared the official Facebook event invite on the Coach Kiprunning Facebook page, and we welcome all of you to join us on Thursday.  This event provides vital resources for food insecure populations in Washington, DC, and we are honored to have the opportunity to support this excellent cause.

We hope to see you on Thursday.

Coach Kiprunning at 2017 Food from the Bar Campaign

For the second year in a row, Coach Kiprunning was honored to be a part of the Capital Area Food Bank's Food from the Bar Campaign.  This year's event was held at Buffalo Billiards in Dupont Circle, and it received co-sponsorship from The Women's Bar Association and DC Road Runners, as well as support from Koonz, McKenney Law Firm and Thompson Coburn.

We have posted photos from the event in a dedicated album on our Facebook page.  We invite you to view them and to like our Facebook page as well. 

Once again, we are grateful to the organizers of this event for asking us to be a part of it, and we look forward to additional opportunities in the future.

Some Brief Notes from the Webmasterrunner

To start, I acknowledge that "webmasterrunner" is not a word.  I also acknowledge that "webmasterrunner" would probably be better spelled as "webmasterunner," but I digress before I've even begun.

I apologize that it has been somewhat quiet on our humble blog over the past few weeks.  I've been spending a good chunk of my time working on various aesthetic enhancements to the Coach Kiprunning website.  Since I'm still at the bottom of the learning curve, those kinds of things take me inordinately long periods of time to do.

After a solid weekend in front of the computer, it feels good to come back from The Matrix--just in time for good spring weather, no less!

Unfortunately, I do not look this handsome after coming back from The Matrix

So, some notes:

-Wilson Komen ran in this past Sunday's Cherry Blossom Ten Miler, enjoying a good run as he eases back into competitive racing with an eye on the masters division.

Wilson with Some GRC and Capital Area Runners

-The Kiprunning Sports Club continues to meet at 7:45 am on Saturday morning for our weekly long runs.  Contact us if you are interested in running with us.

-On this Thursday, Coach Kiprunning will once again be co-sponsoring the annual Food from the Bar Campaign.  This year's event will be held at Buffalo Billiards in Dupont Circle.  The event begins at 6:00 pm.  Please come join us.  You can register through the WBA website.

-And finally, humbly, I'm looking forward to my own return to competitive running.  After a strong finish to 2015, I had to attend to a variety of personal matters, and as a result, I took some time off.  The upside is that I've been able to assume the role of Coach Kiprunning webmaster, which has been a lot of fun.  Now, I am simply, as the opening to this blog post should suggest, appending the title "runner" to myself once again.

I plan to ease my way back into things at this year's New Jersey Marathon weekend, during which I will briskly jog the race's 5K run.  As I've written before, the New Jersey Marathon, and its various assorted races, is an excellent event that falls at a perfect time for competition: late April/early May.  Looking back, I estimate that various Coach Kiprunning runners have competed in the weekend's various races every year since the spring of 2012.

This year will not be an exception to that trend.

And that's it for now.  Keep reading, and by all means, keep running.

Coach Kiprunning at Legal Deboccery with The Capital Area Food Bank

Coach Kiprunning was honored to be a part of the 2016 Legal Deboccery event, organized by the Women's Bar Association.  This event was held at Pinstripes in Georgetown.

For the third consecutive year, Legal Deboccery has served as the kickoff event for the Capital Area Food Bank's Food from the Bar Campaign. This campaign is a partnership between the Capital Area Food Bank and DC's legal community. In 2015 alone, the Food from the Bar Campaign raised $261,000 for hunger relief efforts in Washington, DC; Maryland; and Virginia.  Since 2008, the DC legal community has provided funding for over 2,000,000 meals.

Legal Deboccery was sponsored by Koonz, McKenney, Johnson, DePaolis & Lightfoot; Alderson Court Reporting; and Joseph, Greenwald & Laake, PA.  Raffle prizes were provided by Coach Kiprunning, Running Specialty Group (care of Georgetown Running Company), DC Road Runners, Mayor Muriel Bowser, LexisNexis, Pinstripes, and Blue Star Case Solutions.

Once again, we are grateful that we were asked to participate in this event, and we look forward to being a part of similar events in the future.

Event photos below: