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Lead Stories: Wednesday, December 3, 2008

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.”
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