For its sixth year, the Sun Trust National Marathon will start and end at RFK stadium, with runners enjoying several Capitol Hill vistas. Race organizers are kind enough to map the route so that runners turn the corner right by my house, so I only have to walk a few feet to cheer people on. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'sports'
Be a Runner Groupie: Volunteer for the National Marathon
February 18th, 2011 · 11 Comments · Capitol Hill
Tags: sports·volunteering
A Beginner Joins the Pros at the Classic
May 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Capitol Hill
About the time this blog began a year ago, I started getting serious about running. Well, serious for me meant getting over the two-mile hump on the treadmill when I’d get bored and peter out. On Sunday morning, together with 3,400 runners, I finished the Capitol Hill Classic, my third race, and felt more than [...]
Tags: Capitol Hill Classic·Events·sports
Feed Your Inner Serena … or Rafa
April 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Capitol Hill
Still looking for the perfect sport this spring? Dust off your racquet and warm up that serve because Tennis on the Hill begins play this Sunday, April 25th. Using courts at Anacostia Park for instruction, plus those at Garfield Park, Payne Elementary, Randal Park and Sherwood Rec Center for adult play, TotH offers adult and [...]
Tags: sports
Lace Up and Get Out There!
March 31st, 2010 · 4 Comments · Capitol Hill
I detest treadmills, stair machines and stationary bikes. Unfortunately, since I come from warm weather people deep in the heart of Texas, I also don’t do outdoor exercise if its below 40 degrees. That means this was a long, hard winter for me. Now that the sunny, warm(ish) days are starting to outnumber the cold, [...]
Tags: sports
After the Thaw
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Capitol Hill
My friends on NPR this morning were waxing about the slow approach of spring (March 21st — less than a month away, whoohoo!) and this announcement about Tennis on the Hill seemed just the thing to inspire thoughts about taking off the ski jacket, pulling out the windbreaker and beginning to thaw out. The group [...]
Never Mind the Snow, You Can Still Get In a Round of Golf on the Hill at Capitol Hill Golf
February 25th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Capitol Hill, New Hill East
I recently spent a Monday morning getting fitted for a set of golf clubs and hitting a few balls with a PGA Pro. I tweeted about it and was asked if I was at Haines Point or Langston. My response? Right here on the Hill. In a garage behind A St. SE. Welcome to Capitol [...]
Make a Racquet with Tennis on the Hill
February 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Capitol Hill
Thanks to the Sports on the Hill enterprise, aspiring youth soccer, softball and lacrosse players commandeer the Hill’s playing fields each weekend throughout the spring and fall. There’s even a wrestling league. The newest sport to hit the local kid craze is tennis, and a league for not only youth but also adults is in [...]
Longtime Hill Resident, Champion Golfer Ethel Funches Dies
February 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · New Hill East
On January 6 longtime Hill East resident Ethel Funches passed away, leaving a legacy on the 1600 block of D Street Northeast, and a formidable record in the annals of women’s amateur golf. Funches was 96. Katie Hodge said Funches made quite an impression on her when she and her realtor visited her house when [...]
Watkins Hornets Win Pee Wee Super Bowl
December 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Capitol Hill South
Congratulations to the Watkins Hornets for their win at the Pee Wee Division 1 National Football Championship! The Hornets were the first D.C. team to ever compete in what is essentially the Super Bowl of Pee Wee football – that’s pretty impressive! They defeated the Florida City Razorbacks from Miami, Florida 22-8 and returned to D.C. [...]
Licenced to Thrill and Rolling to the Armory with Sass
October 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · New Hill East
A few months back an old friend started to post about her early days as a DC Rollergirl. The posters for the events were enough to pull me in — and I hadn’t even seen the publicity shots. Ahem, look to your left for an eyeful of fishnet, garter belts, eyeliner gone wrong and lots [...]
Tags: DC Rollergirls·Events·sports
