2018 Hall of Fame Inductees

Amy (Hastings) Cragg, born January 21, 1984, was an Arizona State University teammate of Desiree (Davilla) Linden. Running for ASU, Amy was the 2005 NCAA Indoor Champion in the 5000 meters. She ranks as one of the all-time greats earning ten total All- America honors. She had a breakthrough year in 2011 when she knocked 34 seconds off her previous time in the 5000 meters, to become runner up at the 2011 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. The results of that race also qualified her for the 2011 IAAF World Championships, where she qualified for the final. That same year she ran her first marathon, the Los Angeles Marathon, placing second in 2:27:03, making made her the eighth fastest American. In 2012, Hastings finished fourth at the U.S. marathon trials, one place out of a team spot, but went on to win the Olympic Trials 10,000meter race. At the 2012 London Olympics, Hastings ran 31:10.69, placing 11th. On July 4, 2014, she won the Peachtree Road Race in Atlanta, GA with a time of 32:16. In the fall of 2014, she married Irish Olympian Alistair Cragg and began competing under her married name. On March 14, 2015 Amy won the USA title by 32 seconds at 15 km championship in Jacksonville, Florida with a time of 50:18. On 13 February 2016, Amy placed first at the US Olympic Marathon Trials, finishing in 2:28:20 on a warm day in Los Angeles. Six months later in Rio, she placed ninth in the Olympic marathon. On August 6, 2017, she placed 3rd at the 2017 World Championships Marathon in London in 2:27:18. Her performance ended a 34-year marathon medal drought for Team USA at the world championships. In 2018, Amy placed third at the Tokyo Marathon, a World Marathon Majors race, in 2:21:42.

Bart Yasso is a legend in the running community. Yasso, born in 1958, has served as the Chief Running Officer of Runner’s World since 2007, traveling the world to inspire and educate runners of all levels. Yasso joined Runner's World in 1987 to develop the groundbreaking Runner's World Race Sponsorship Program, creating a vehicle for Runner's World to work with over 7,000 races representing 4 million runners per year. In his career, he’s run with two presidents, competed in races on all seven continents, completed the 146-mile Badwater Ultramarathon (before the course was shortened to 135 miles), published a memoir titled My Life on the Run. He has appeared at over 1800 races, along with the RRCA Convention, as a featured speaker. He has been dubbed “the Mayor of Running,” and is credited with inventing the Yasso 800s, a widely-used marathon training workout. Yasso has competed in more than 1,200 races during his 30+ career at Runner’s World and 40 years he’s been involved with the sport. He has successfully finished the 56-mile Comrades Marathon and the Mt. Kilimanjaro Marathon and has run races on all seven continents. In 1987 we was the winner of the 1987 U.S. National Biathlon Long Course Championship . He has cycled twice across the country by himself with no support. Yasso was inducted into the Running USA Hall of Champions and now the RRCA Distance Running Hall of Fame. At the conclusion of 2017, Yasso retired from his position at Runner’s World, but he still plans to attend events.