Joseph P. Fisher

Race Results - National Capital 20 and 5 Miler Annual race results for the National Capital 20 and 5 Miler

We remixed the event, and we pulled it off. The results are up! On behalf of DC Road Runners, thank you to everyone who helped make this event happen.

Joseph P. Fisher sitting on a sidewalk in Rosslyn after the 2025 Marine Corps Marathon with a bemused exhausted look on his face. He is holding a not-quite-delicious bag of sugar-free applesauce.

The morning was fun?

Rescheduled, Repurposed Races - National Capital 20 and 5 Miler The events have been rescheduled!

We're back! With just a few minor tweaks. Come run with us!

The government shutdown is putting D.C.-area races in jeopardy Organizers of the Army Ten-Miler and the Marine Corps Marathon said the government shutdown could affect their abilities to proceed with race day.

Snagged a citation by way of a hyperlink from The Washington Post.

First 14-mile run since April 21, 2018, back before all of the cartilage surgeries. It has been too long, but this felt good.

2025 Final Rate Extension - National Capital 20 and 5 Miler 2025 early bird registration rates extended through July 31

One final extension for the 2025 National Capital 20 Miler early bird registration rates!

large group of the 2025 DC Road Runners half and full marathon training groups posing in a park with green grass and trees. Joseph P Fisher is kneeling in the center in a green singlet

I do say that this is an excellent group of DC Road Runners trainees!

2025 Early Bird Extension - National Capital 20 and 5 Miler 2025 early bird registration rates extended through July 15

We have extended early bird registration rates for the 2025 National Capital 20 Miler through July 15. Come race with us! Also, join DC Road Runners!

Tiny Desktop Reviews: Nothing - Joseph P. Fisher, Ph.D. Castlebeat: still making goths do the mashed potato

My latest Tiny Desktop Review: Castlebeat's "Nothing."

Joseph P Fisher (far left, kneeling) with a large group of trainees for the DC Road Runners 2025 marathon training program

We had a really good group for the first day of DC Road Runners fall marathon training. Come run with us!

They clearly know what they want to be doing. I'm just not into it. That said, I saw them last summer when they toured for this record, and they put together a really fun show with all kinds of video collages and fake infomercials. It was fun.

Tiny Desktop Reviews: Frog in Boiling Water - Joseph P. Fisher, Ph.D. With "Frog in Boiling Water," DIIV continues to plummet.

@brianflota.bsky.social, I don't love the new DIIV record.

Trump Targets Chinese Students, a Harsh Blow to Higher Ed The Trump administration’s latest effort to revive its student deportation campaign could drastically curtail the largest population of international students in the country.

Attacks on Chinese Students Could Wreak Havoc on Higher Ed

The Trump administration’s latest effort to revive its student deportation campaign could drastically curtail the largest population of international students in the country. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/45012V1

2025 Race Registration - National Capital 20 and 5 Miler Registration announcement for the 2025 National Capital 20 Miler

Registration for the 2025 National Capital 20 Miler is now open. Come run with us!

fourteen members of DC Road Runners standing on a staircase in the Pacers Running store in Georgetown. Joseph P. Fisher (center left) just offered a training seminar. He is concerned that his hairline is obviously receding in most pictures.

Here are a bunch of the DC Road Runners spring trainees post-Saturday long run and training seminar. A good way to start the weekend! Thanks, Pacers Running.

NEW: Internal staff email from Smithsonian secretary Lonnie Bunch addressing Trump’s executive order.

“As always, our work will be shaped by the best scholarship, free of partisanship, to help the American public better understand our nation’s history, challenges and trumphs.”

I had this when I was a kid.

This is going to kill many public libraries, especially in rural areas. If you use a public library, you will be impacted. #imls is a dust mote in the federal budget. It also provides things like internet at your local library so people can apply for jobs and kids can do homework.

Trump Removes Navajo Shelly Lowe as Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities Shelly C. Lowe , the chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Shelly C. Lowe left her position on Wednesday “at the direction of President Donald Trump,” the agency said in a statement.

Looks like Trump forced out the Chair of NEH. For predictably outrageous reasons. Yes, it’s time to worry.

Updated Date - National Capital 20 and 5 Miler Minor changes to the 2025 race date

We had to make a minor scheduling adjustment to the 2025 National Capital 20 Miler. Early October is now the time. See you out there!

YouTube video by Joseph P. Fisher DC Road Runners with Dr. Ankit Shah

Courtesy of DC Road Runners, Dr. Ankit Shah discusses cardiovascular and heart health for endurance athletes. Please watch! #runners #running

Ugh

Legislative Encroachment on Higher Ed - MLA Webinars Join our free webinar to learn how advocates are defending DEIA, academic freedom, and the right to protest and to get strategies for your own campus and community.

Please join us on 24 March for the latest MLA webinar, on legislative encroachment into higher ed:

What happened?

a large group of DC Road Runners members standing in a parking lot after the 2025 Club Challenge Ten Miler. Some of these runners are holding cans of beer. As is typical, Joseph P. Fisher is one of them.

The 2025 Club Challenge Ten Miler went down almost as smoothly as the post-run beers in the parking lot.

Joseph P. Fisher (far right) with DC Road Runners trainees having post-run coffee on a snowy DC Saturday. They are, thankfully, in a warm coffee shop.

One more long run in the books, and one more post-long run coffee with DC Road Runners trainees. Stay warm out there!

Heading to New Jersey to see @slowdiveofficial.bsky.social. I hope it's not a slow . . . drive.

eleven DC Road Runners spring trainees standing on a street in front of an abandoned building in Georgetown

The DC Road Runners spring trainees hit the icy streets this morning. Eleven miles in the bank!

DC Road Runners Training Programs DC training programs for spring marathons, half marathons, and 10 milers. Open to all paces and to non-members.

I'm looking forward to coaching the spring 2025 DC Road Runners training programs. If you are in the DC area, come run with us!

Joseph's review of Rabbit Is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom #3) 2/5: Harry Angstrom is a horrible person, and he is surrounded by horrible people. Unfortunately, all of them are in this novel. This 500-page miasma of misery is made all the more pungent by Updike's...

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