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Editor
and publisher of the Road Race Management newsletter
and the Road Race Management Directory
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His company, Road Race Management, Inc., organizes
the annual Road Race Management Race Directors’
Seminar and Trade Exhibit, an annual sport-wide
industry gathering
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Event
Director for the Credit Union Cherry Blossom
10-Miler, the premier springtime running event
in Washington, DC, and is part of the Professional
Road Running Organization Championship Circuit.
The event is continually rated as one of the
most outstanding races on America
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Provides
commentary for the Bank of America Gasparilla
Distance Classic (Tampa, FL), the Quad-City
Times Bix 7 Mile (Davenport IA), the Utica Boilermaker
15K Road Race (Utica, NY), the Peoples Beach
to Beacon 10K (Portland, ME) and the SGMA Capital
Challenge (Washington, DC)
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One
of the founders of the Running Times magazine
(1977), one of the two nationally circulated
running magazines
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Received
notoriety in 1979 when he took the dramatic
photos of President Jimmy Carter’s collapse
during a 10K road race at Camp David and the
photos were published in Sports Illustrated,
Time, People magazine and other publications
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Received honorable mention in the "News
Picture Story" category by the National
Press Photographers Association, and were nominated
for a Pulitzer the same year
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Served as President of the Washington, DC Road
Runners Club; Vice President of the Administration
of the Road Runners Club of America; Treasurer
of the USATF (formerly TAC) Men’s Long
Distance Running Committee; and has severed
on the Advisory Board of the National Distance
Running Hall of Fame in Utica, NY and is on
the Selection Committee for the RRCA’s
Road Scholars Grant program
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Began
running his junior year of high school at Washington,
DC’s Woodrow Wilson High School and placed
second in the Washington, DC city meet in the
Mile (1968), Ran 4:31.4, which stood as the
school record for 20 years
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After
college, he began competing in races in the
Washington, DC area, where he emerged as one
of the top area runners. In 1974, he placed
third in the National AAU 50 mile in New York
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In
1975 he was the first Washington area finisher
in the Boston Marathon in an excellent time
of 2:19.58 and qualified to participate in the
1976 Olympic Trails in the marathon
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In
1977 he placed 15th at the Boston Marathon and
was the first finisher from the state of Maryland
at the 1993 New York City Marathon with a time
of 2:56:57 and completed the 100th Boston Marathon
in 2:57:46 |
