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Tidal Basin Runs
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  • Tidal Basin Runs are free runs for fun and fitness on the third Wednesday of each month
  • Our next regular monthly Tidal Basin Runs are Wednesday, May 16, 2012, East Potomac Park (Hains Point).  Please join us!
  • We also offer special Presidential Fitness Runs on national holidays
  • We host three runs:  1500 meters (0.93 miles) at 11:50 AM, followed bv 3000 meters (1.86 miles) and 5000 meters (3.11 miles) at 12:00 noon. 
  • If we have a designated non-runner to watch the clock and time the runs, then we start all runs together
  • Although the monthly runs are informal and free, we record and report results on-line and to Washington Post, RacePacket, and Washington Running Report.

    • President's Fitness Challenge
  • Tidal Basin Run is a partner of National President's Fitness Challenge
  • To earn points in the President's Challenge, open http://www.presidentschallenge.org/login/register_individual.aspx, login or create a user ID, then click Your Groups and join Group ID Number 83251, Group Member ID/Name Tidal Basin Race.
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  • Tidal Basin Run is a member of  Road Runners Club of America
  • We thank DC Road Runners Club, Peter Lamberton, and Potomac Valley Track Club for sponsoring our initial membership dues to RRCA.
  • We ratified our by-laws on Wednesday, June 17, 2009.
  • Our $10 annual membership gets you a vote at our occasional meetings and helps to pay our annual RRCA dues and insurance.
  • To join, please fill out the Membership Form and mail it with your $10 check payable to "Tidal Basin Run."
  • We also conduct Presidential Fitness Runs on national holidays | Event records
  • The modest entry fees for our Presidential Fitness Runs on national holidays also help pay our RRCA dues and insurance
  • Officers: Jay Jacob Wind, president; Peter Blank, vice-president; James Scarborough, secretary; and Ric Francke, treasurer
    • GPIM
  • How about 211 laps around the 200-meter indoor track at Thomas Jefferson Community Center
  • for the second annual Grant-Pierce Indoor Marathon, in pursuit of a Guinness World Record?
  • Does that sound like fun?

  • Complete information and on-line registration

    • REGULAR MONTHLY RACES:
  • LOCATION: Hains Point (927 Ohio Drive SW) at the southern end of East Potomac Park, the starting line of many local races. This location is about 3 miles south of our former location, so please allow extra travel time.
  • DIRECTIONS:  From Independence Avenue, follow Ohio Drive south over Tidal Inlet Bridge and continue to Buckeye Drive. Turn left at Buckeye Drive and continue east to Ohio Drive on the Washington Shipping Channel side facing Waterfront. Turn right and continue south to Parking Area 13 near Hains Point.
  • START:  Parking Area 13 on Ohio Drive just north of Hains Point (1500m and 3000m)
  • REGISTRATION:  Free, starting at 11:50 am, 10 minutes before the 12 noon race
  • BATHROOMS:  Available near playground north of Hains Point
  • PARKING:  Free at Hains Point
  • MAPS:  | 1500m course (out'n'back) | 3000m course (out'n'back) | 5000m course (starts ~142m north of finish) | 10000m course (starts ~284m north of finish)
    RESULTS: Upcoming monthly runs:
    • Wednesday, June 20, 2012 - #461 - Fletcher's Cove, 4940 Canal Road, Washington DC
    • Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - #462 - Fletcher's Cove, 4940 Canal Road, Washington DC
    • Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - #463 - Fletcher's Cove, 4940 Canal Road, Washington DC
    • Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - #464 - Back at Hains Point, East Potomac Park, Washington DC
    • Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - #465 - Hains Point, East Potomac Park, Washington DC
    • Wednesday, November 21, 2012 - #466 - Hains Point, East Potomac Park, Washington DC
    • Wednesday, December 19, 2012 - #467 - Hains Point, East Potomac Park, Washington DC

    Upcoming holiday runs:

    • To Be Announced

    Standard instructions:


    The Designated Non-Runner

    For each monthly race, we need at least one designated non-runner (DNR).

    We bring the pencils, sign-up sheets and clipboard, result cards, and a whistle.

    The DNR should bring a stopwatch and anything else helpful, such as a clipboard, certificates, refreshments, cash prizes, etc.

    After pre-race instructions, the DNR stands in front of the group, starts them with the whistle and a hand signal, and starts the official watch.

    Then the starter retrieves the registration clipboards, pencil bag, and any personal items (we must not leave unattended items);
    walks over to the finish, and sets up the cards for hand-out.

    As finishers come in, the DNR calls times and hands out cards and pencils, them collect cards and sorts them by number.

    The finish line works best with 3 people -- a time caller, a card-and-pencil-hander-outer, and a collector-sorter.


    Ask a question or volunteer as a Designated Non-Runner

  • January 21, 2011 -- "Running: Palks led racing pack in 2010" -- in The Capital, by Evan Thomas
  • In memoriam: Ray Blue