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MileStat.com is bringing back a popular feature from several years ago with weekly journal blogs from some of the state's top athletes. Hopefully, these journals will allow site visitors to get to know better some of the Virginia's best runners in what's going on with their running and life in general as they share a little bit about both. The last season that we posted athlete journals, the participating runners definitely grew a greater fan base and a few more cheers at meets from the site followers of their weekly blogs.

Fresh off his huge upset victory at the Maymont Festival, Western Albemarle senior Derek Armstrong joins MileStat.com's group of elite high school runners contributing weekly journals of their life in running. Armstrong, a Canadian born and bred hockey player, has found a new love of the sport in running since moving "South of the Border". Despite having to overcome numerous stress fractures as a junior, Armstrong (pictured above ...