RUNNING STATS
Closes Its Doors
Posted November 16th, 2007 at 9:15 AM by David Monti
Section: News & Results
After nearly 23 years, RUNNING STATS, has ceased publication, according to editor and publisher, Paul Christman.
“As your diarist’s tenure with Running Stats draws to a close, it’s been a good run,” Christman wrote on his website in a brief farewell message where he thanked his many correspondents.
RUNNING STATS was for years a paper newsletter sent through the mail and was the only timely source of elite distance running results. Christman relied on the support of race directors who not only purchased his newsletter but paid for his travel to their events to provide coverage. Christman once told me that he had brought out to the Honolulu Marathon 18 times, one of distance running’s all-time great records.
Although many relied on Christman for results, even more looked forward to his grand writing style and witty headlines. Like when Flomena Chepchirchir won the recent half-marathon in Dordrecht, Christman’s headline read, “FLO CHARTS ANOTHER.”
RUNNING STATS eventually convered to a website with support from the Atlanta Track Club. He was going to pack it in last year, but an anonymous angel investor kept him afloat for another year. But this time, Christman says he’s done for good.
“Anyway, it was a good 24 years, with a lot of great travel and people,” he wrote in an e-mail message to RRW. “Yet for me, it is time to move on.”
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November 16th, 2007 at 10:08 amHow exciting that you’ve completed this journey with Running Stats, and are now moving onto a new adventure! Good job
on Running Stats—-I’m sure many people will miss you.
As your “little sister” (for real)—
I couldn’t be happier for you.
Take care, and always remember this:
You can run, but you cannot hide :)
(I used to always beat him at hide-n-go seek)
Tory Christman
November 26th, 2007 at 3:58 amBurbank, CA