Maryland Club Running Blog

Preface Hi faithful blog readers. Bare with me because this is gonna be a long one. I first had the idea to make a blog post about my time with the club last spring semester. I got lost in my last semester of college and soon enough graduated and had to spend my time applying to full-time jobs. […]

A blog post!? That’s right ladies and gents club running is back and it’s time to hit the cross course. So here to bring you your DC invite race preview is the boyz of 2422. Meet: DC Invitational presented by Georgetown Club Running Location: Kenilworth Park, Washington District of Columbia Oh boy UMD Club Running’s official return to […]

I remember reading a series of Instagram posts from Allie Kieffer called “The Anatomy of a PR” after her PR in the New York City Marathon, so I decided that sitting in the airport for 4.5 hours waiting for my flight was a nice opportunity to make my own version for the Pittsburgh Marathon. The weeks leading up: […]

Are you looking for a movie that’s one of a kind? The first movie of it’s kind in history perhaps? Well look no further, because Cars 2 is the greatest movie of all time due to its riveting character development. Many criticize this movie due to its non-stop car murders, sending a bad message to young children that […]

Short post here about the life of a power walker A sequel to Jacob Grant’s Life of an Aqua Jogger A response to Matt Stasiukevicius’s A Brief Slam The power walker is, with no doubt, the victim of some freak accident That relegates him to go with out biking or running when practicin’ His team runs off, and […]

A certain member of the club, though undeniably our most creative member, is failing to reach his full potential. Strike up a conversation with this fellow and you will certainly be entertained by a broad range of maniacally strung together ideas. Most impressively, however, so many of these ideas come together in a beautiful reality as I’m sure […]

By Briggs You know what’s weird? Despite being the webmaster for several years, designing the entire blog, and encouraging people to post all their stories on it, I never actually posted a real blog post myself. I figured I would come up with something funny to write up and post sometime, but as the quality and effort put […]

By Ryun Anderson     April 20th, 2019: the day before Easter. A day when Jake Downing paid homage to the meme gods by finishing 69th in the 1500 on 4/20. And the day when Maryland Club Running “pulled a fast one” (as the youths say) on Widener University. On Saturday, a small squadron of Terrapins traveled to Chester, […]

Day 1: Courage, Camaraderie, and Clipboards 7 years ago, a plucky organization of volunteers who had previously planned nothing but half marathons and other road races decided that it was time to expand their race repertoire to better serve the college runners that frequented their races. What they planned next was the first rendition of the NIRCA Spring […]

Brought to you by the Office of the Treasury               After a spring break filled with road trips, naps and procrastination twenty-three of UMD Club Running’sTm finest descended upon American University. They proceeded to dominate events ranging from a 100m race walk to the 5k. Those who had been to this infamous track before recounted stories of iced […]