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DOUBLE ROAD RACE®

SOUVENIR PROGRAM

June 30, 2013 • Overland Park, Kansas

DENVER

July 21, 2013 • Denver, Colorado

•Collector's Edition•

INDY

August 11, 2013 Indianapolis, Indiana

San José City Of

August 24, 2013

San José, California

San Juan Bautista

September 28, 2013 • San Juan Bautista, California

Manhattan The Little Apple

November 9, 2013 • Manhattan, Kansas

Return to Kansas ...Billy Mills ...Bob Anderson ...plus much more!

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December 22, 2013 • Pleasanton, California

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CONTENTS 4

Return to Kansas...Billy Mills

12 Facts About the Double

Return to Kansas...Bob Anderson

13 Runners to Watch

Upcoming Events Schedule

The Double Road Race® Overland Park

14 Leader Board and Performance Rankings

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RETURN TO KANSAS...BILLY MILLS

Return to Kansas... Billy Mills

"You're the greatest Jayhawk of them all" –Bill Easton

By David Prokop e became an Olympic hero and an American sports icon for eternity with his dramatic and (to most) totally unexpected victory in the 10,000 meters at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. He remains the only American in history to ever win the longest track event in the Olympic Games. Today, on his 75th birthday, Billy Mills is back in Kansas, which served as the launch pad for his run to Olympic glory in Tokyo almost 50 years ago, as a special honored guest at the Overland Park Double. Although Billy was born and raised on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, his running career essentially began in Kansas. After Billy’s father, Sidney, died at age 49 when Billy was only 13, leaving him orphaned (his mother, Grace, had died when Billy was eight), he was sent off to Haskell Indian High School, a boarding facility, in Lawrence, Kan. His older brother, Walter, and his sister, Ramona, had previously attended the school. At Haskell he started running. He failed to make the cross-country team his freshman year, but he improved so dramatically as a runner he was undefeated in cross-country his last three years at Haskell. He ran 9:28 for two miles in his sophomore year, and by his senior year he had brought that down to 9:08, which got him a scholarship to Kansas University. All this despite the fact he had a medical condition no one knew about (including him) which could wreak havoc on any distance runner’s progress and performance if left unaddressed. At Kansas University the running career of the tall (he’s a shade under 6’0”), slender young distance star sputtered. To be sure, he was a fine cross-country runner. For instance, as a sophomore he was fifth in the NCAA Cross-Country Championships – and the first American! – behind the race winner Al Lawrence of the University of Houston, who had won the bronze medal in the 10,000 meters at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. Indeed, Billy was either first or second American in the NCAA Cross-Country Çhampionships his last three years at Kansas.

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“I’m one of the top cross-country runners in the United States,” he recalls his self-assessment back then. “I always considered myself one of the top crosscountry runners in the United States, but no one in the country considered me that. My whole perspective was I could do great things.” However, the reality is that during his frustrating career at the University of Kansas he was erratic in a lot of his races, seemed to lack energy, wasn’t up in contending position a lot of the time when competing, which was interpreted by many, and most importantly his coach at Kansas, the highly respected Bill Easton, as a sign of mental issues, a lack of confidence and fighting spirit, you name it. Billy’s relationship with coach Easton deteriorated so badly towards the end of his career at Kansas, Easton actually kicked him off the team for a time. No one knew Billy had an undiagnosed medical condition that was at the root of all of this! And, ironically, if people had known of his problem they would have been complimenting him profusely for performing as well as he did under the circumstances, rather than heaping criticism on him. Billy graduated from Kansas University in 1962, and it wasn’t until 1963, a year before the Tokyo Olympics, when he was attending officers training school in Quantico, Va., after joining the Marine Corps, that his condition was diagnosed. At the time he was physically falling apart as a runner, it seemed, so he went to see a Navy doctor who also treated members of the Marine Corps. What the doctor told him is – “You’re a borderline diabetic and you’re hypoglycemic.” The further implication of

this is that Billy had been dealing with this condition his whole track career! A person who’s hypoglycemic is subject to drastic blood sugar swings if he doesn’t follow a careful diet with a steady glucose intake, thus preventing a serious drop in blood sugar level. If your blood sugar level falls too low, and that can happen very easily if you’re hypoglycemic, your energy level bottoms out. Hardly what a distance runner wants or can afford – and with Billy, this was happening all the time! This problem didn’t surface as much when Billy was in high school because his coach at Haskell, Tony Coffin (“Who became like a second father to me”) would give him honey before the race – “Not because he knew I was hypoglycemic, but because he thought it would give me more energy.” Whether it gave him more energy or not in and of itself, it certainly prevented his blood sugar level from plummeting. That all changed when he got to the University of Kansas. He asked Kansas coach Bill Easton if he could have some honey or some other type of glucose just before a race for energy, but the answer he got was strict and unyielding – we have our team meal four hours before the meet and that’s that! In other words, we don’t deviate. Result: Every race Billy Mills ran as a Kansas Jayhawk, he was

experiencing low blood sugar levels – and subsequently reaping the flurry of criticisms for his erratic and often subpar performances. “Where is my energy gone?” Billy now expresses the bewilderment he often felt when he was running at Kansas. “I’d finish the race not tired from running, but just exhausted!” After his diagnosis at Quantico, Billy went on a high protein diet. “Within six weeks,” he says, “I started performing at a whole new level of energy. I got myself to the point where I could actually kick.” His real capability began to emerge. Billy also started working on developing a finishing kick, due to some advice he received from an unlikely source. In July 1963 he competed in the CISM all-military championships in Brussels, Belgium, where he ran the 10,000 meters for only the second time in his career. He took the lead with 500 meters to go, but in the last 200 meters he was passed by one runner, then a second runner, before another runner blew by them all – in much the same fashion Billy would sprint to victory down the homestraight the next year in the Tokyo Olympics. It was none other than Tunisia’s Mohammed Gammoudi, who would play such a significant role in the 10,000 at the Tokyo Olympics. Later Gammoudi passed some advice on to Billy through an interpreter. Billy recounts that moment: “He said to tell Billy – ‘More speed!’ “In other words, work on your speed. Billy continued training, and concentrated on improving his finishing speed. At the end of July 1963 his best time in the 400 was 54.5. Then he got it down into the 53s, then the 52s, skipped 51 altogether, stayed in the low 50s for a short time before running 49.9, followed by 49.7! It was then he thought, “I’ve got the speed to kick with anybody in the world, and all because Mohammed Gammoudi said, ‘More speed.’ ” In qualifying for the 1964 Olympic 10,000 meters by finishing second to Gerry Lindgren in a tight battle at the U.S. Olympic Trials, Billy gained another important insight from a fellow competitor, namely Lindgren, from a comment Gerry made rather innocently afterwards. In the race Gerry had put in a lot of surges, which was his normal style of running, but Billy covered them all. Approaching the end of the race, however, with the two of them clear of the field and Billy’s spot on the Olympic team secured, Billy let Gerry go

when he surged still again. Gerry, then all of 18, a distance running prodigy and little giant killer if there ever was one, told Billy after the race, “That was the last surge I had. If you had gone with me, I don’t know what would have happened.” At that moment a truth dawned on Billy. “I was thinking, ‘I should have tried to win this race. I can’t make that same mistake in Tokyo. No matter who puts in a surge or how often, you have to cover it!’ ” Four days before the 10,000 in Tokyo. Billy says he did something probably nobody else in the race would have even thought of doing – he ran a 200 against a stopwatch out of starting blocks! His time – 23.3! That’s blistering fast for a distance runner.

It was then he knew for a certainty that if he could only stay with the pace in the Olympic 10,000 until the last lap, he could outsprint anybody. And we all know what happened in Tokyo: He streaked by Ron Clarke and Mohammed Gammoudi so fast on the homestraight, it was “like an arrow shot from a bow,” Mohammed Gammoudi would say years later through an interpreter. He also added this assessment: “Too much speed!” Years later Ron Clarke, the race favorite going into the 10,000 in Tokyo, offered this observation: “It doesn’t happen very often, but on occasion someone runs as if they have wings on their feet….” He left unspoken the thought that in Tokyo Billy ran as if he had wings on his feet. The question that lingers in the air is: Impressive as his Olympic victory was, how great a runner could Billy Mills have become if he hadn’t been hampered by the hypoglycemia all those years, which affected his training, limited his progress

and development, etc. It’s a question that can never be answered, of course. Maybe it doesn’t need to be answered. Because for that one shining moment, when all the best were there, from around the world, Billy Mills stood on top, the best of the best. There’s not much more a man can prove or would want to; Ron Clarke himself, who set countless world records but never won an Olympic gold medal, said to Billy in 2012, “I’d trade all those world records for one Olympic gold medal.” That is the true measure of what Billy Mills achieved in Tokyo. In time, Billy and coach Easton reconciled, and coach Easton paid him the ultimate compliment, “You’re the greatest Jayhawk of them all.” Today Billy and his wife, Pat, who’s an artist, live in Sacramento, Calif. They met as students at the University of Kansas and have now been married 51 years. They have four grown daughters (Christy, Lisa, Billie Jo and Megan), 12 grandchildren and one great granddaughter. Billy worked in the life insurance business for almost two decades after his running career ended, but he gave that up in 1984 after the autobiographical movie of his life, Running Brave, came out, with Robbie Benson in the starring role. Since then Billy has been an advocate for Native American rights and is the co-founder of Running Strong for American Indian Youth – www.indianyouth. org. Thus far he has helped raise more than $120 million in cash and goods/services for Running Strong. Earlier this year he was awarded the Presidential Citizen’s Medal (the second highest medal the country can bestow on an American citizen) by President Obama for his work with Running Strong. Billy is also in great demand as an inspirational speaker (although he calls himself an “empowerment speaker,” an important distinction), and he does promotional work all over America and abroad. He’s justifiably proud to say he has friends in more than 165 countries around the world. Alas, his running days are over, due to knee and hip issues which are the result of skiing accidents. His wife is an accomplished skier. Billy, it seems, was a much better runner than he is a skier. He quips, “All of my injuries came from trying to stay with my wife down the slopes.”

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RETURN TO KANSAS...BOB ANDERSON

Return to Kansas... Bob Anderson A local boy who made it big!

By David Prokop verland Park is where Bob Anderson’s lifelong love affair with running began and where he founded Runner’s World magazine, which would become the biggest running publication in the world. Today that passion for running brings him back to Overland Park for the Double Road Race®, a new competition and sport he’s created for runners. Bob Anderson was born in Manhattan, Kan., the second oldest of five sons – Billy, Bobby, Barry, Buddy and Binny – that graced the lives of Billy and Betty Anderson, although “graced” might not have been the word of choice the parents would use when these five guys got rambunctious, as boys have been known to do. There were no daughters in the family. Bob’s father was a schoolteacher and subsequently became an engineer. The family moved from Manhattan to Eureka, then finally to Overland Park. By that time Bob’s father had become a consulting engineer with an oil company in Kansas City. Bob attended school in Overland Park from fourth grade until he graduated from Shawnee Mission West High School in 1966. He started running in 1962 at age 14 when he was attending Broadmoor Junior High in Overland Park. At the time his older brother, Bill, was already a member of the crosscountry team at Shawnee Mission West. “My dad always talked about how they would run a mile in combat boots when he was in the Navy,” Bob recalls those early, formative years. “That sounded interesting.” Always up for a challenge, Bob tried to run a mile – and not in combat boots – but couldn’t last the distance. At least not that time. Not surprising. A mile is a long way to go if you’ve never done any running. The seed had been planted, however. It was a beginning. He says now, speaking candidly, “I was a mediocre student, much more street smart than book smart. Tried to run a mile and couldn’t, but literally within weeks I became addicted to running because I felt it was something I could do.”

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And do well! He had tried softball, baseball, football, but those sports didn’t appeal to him, partly because he wasn’t very good at them. Running was a different story. While at Broadmoor Junior High, at age 15, he ran a 600-meter race in 93 seconds, finishing second when he was edged out at the finish. Then, still only 15, he ran 2:08.5 in winning the half mile in an AAU Junior Olympic meet at Wyandotte High School in Kansas. “To find something you can excel in,” he reflects now, “what a confidence builder that was!” The thing that really supercharged his already developing passion and dedication as a runner were a couple of monumental running achievements by two great American distance runners he witnessed on television. The first was in July 1964, two years after he started running, when he and the rest of America watched in amazement as a precocious high school kid from Spokane, Wash., named Gerry Lindgren outran two seasoned Russian distance men at the USUSSR dual meet in Los Angeles. A mere sprite of a runner, Lindgren was only 18, a year older than Bob. The second came in October 1964 when Bob and his brother Barry sat transfixed in front of a little black and white TV in the family home on Goddard Avenue in Overland Park and couldn’t believe their eyes when they saw Billy Mills, a Kansas University graduate no less, streak past the race leaders on the homestraight to win the gold medal in the 10, 000 meters at the Tokyo Olympics. What joy,

what excitement, what inspiration they felt – inspiration to last a lifetime. And with Bob Anderson, it has… “Certainly one of the most inspiring moments of my life,“ Bob says. “To see someone from Kansas do that – it was very inspiring!” Today Billy Mills is a special guest of honor at the Overland Park Double – on a day he celebrates his 75th birthday! Bob became such an avid runner after that, he was starving for training advice and information on how to improve his performances. As a result, he decided to start his own running magazine, in hopes that the articles therein would benefit runners like him. Then called Distance Running News, that magazine would become Runner’s World, the largest circulation running magazine in the world. The first issue was published in January 1966 and the second in June of that year. Bob Anderson was only 17 and a senior at Shawnee Mission West High School! Upon graduation from high school, Bob moved back to Manhattan, Kan., to attend Kansas State University. But his focus was on the magazine rather than on school. It turned out to be the right inclination, and

the rest is history. Who knew that only two years after this slight, determined young man from Overland Park first started running, he would start a magazine that would become tremendously successful and indeed transform the running landscape by helping to usher in the running boom of the ‘70s and ‘80s. In the fall of ’69 Bob decided it was time to hire an editor for his magazine rather than to continue going it alone. He offered the job to Joe Henderson, who had been contributing to the magazine but was then working for Track & Field News in Los Altos, Calif. Joe said “Yes” to Bob’s offer, but wasn’t prepared to move to Kansas to accept the position, even though Joe himself was originally from Iowa. Bob had been toying with the idea of moving to California anyway. He decided this was the opportune time to make that move. So he put all his belongings and the files for the magazine in a U-Haul truck and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he’s lived ever since. In January 1970 Joe Henderson became the new editor. The magazine flourished! Joe Henderson has written, in “The Runner’s Guide to the Double Road Race”: “Within four years (of its inception), it had a new name, Runner’s World, a new home, in California, and a new editor, me. By its 10th birthday, Runner’s World had outrun Track & Field News in circulation, and Long Distance Log (another early publication) had dropped out of the race. “Bob had created the prototype for the modern running magazine and inspired competitive publishers who thought they could cover the sport better (with Running Times, The Runner and Running to follow during the boom years of the late 1970s). Runner’s

Bob presents the Bob Anderson Lifetime Achievement Award to Bill Rodgers at the Pleasanton Double Road Race®.

World provided the first national forum for writers whose works have endured: George Sheehan, Kenny Moore, Joan Ullyot, Don Kardong, Rich Benyo, John Brant, Jeff Galloway, etc.” Bob ultimately sold Runner’s World to Rodale Press in 1984 after it had reached a circulation of 450,000. He then started the Ujena Swimwear Company, which 29 years later and counting, has become one of the leaders in the industry. His passion for running, however, has never waned. And he has put the resources of Ujena behind the mission to encourage running participation and fitness at all ages. To that end, he has formed the Ujena Fit Club and Website, www.ujenafitclub. com, created a new running event, the Double Road Race®, and a new sport, Double Road Racing, and at age 65, when most men that age are thinking of retirement or at least taking it easy, he’s thinking of new worlds to conquer as a runner and businessman. Last year, to celebrate his 50 years of running, Bob undertook the daunting challenge – at age 64 – of running 50 races in one year. More than that, he committed to averaging under seven minutes per mile for the entire series of races, which came to be known as the Bob Anderson 50-Race Challenge. He met his challenge (meeting challenges is something he learned well in his years as a runner), completing all 50 races (ranging in distance from two miles to the half-marathon) at an average speed of 6:59 per mile for the 350.8 miles of racing. His 50-Race Challenge has been documented in an inspirational movie, A Long Run, which will have its premiere this coming December in Pleasanton, Calif., where the first Double Road Race® in American history was held late last year. But Overland Park is where Bob Anderson’s long run really started more than half a century ago. Now the local boy who made it big returns to Kansas for the Overland Park Double, to participate in this new competition and sport he’s created (this is only the second Double Road Race® ever held in America), and the poignant added touch is that the great Billy Mills, who inspired him so much back in 1964, is also in attendance as a special honored guest. Incidentally, Bob Anderson and Billy Mills have known each other since the early 1980s, and it was Billy who nominated Bob for the designation he was ultimately accorded as one of the Top 10 Young Men of America in 1983 by the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce for his contributions to fitness.

Upcoming Events:

DENVER

July 21, 2013 • Denver, Colorado

Registration Now Open www.DoubleRoadRaceDenver.com Sunday July 21, 2013 Denver, Colorado

INDY

August 11, 2013 Indianapolis, Indiana

Registration Now Open www.DoubleRoadRaceIndy.com Sunday August 11, 2013 Indianapolis, Indiana

San José City Of

August 24, 2013

San José, California

Registration Now Open www.DoubleRoadRaceSanJose.com Saturday August 24, 2013 San Jose, California

San Juan Bautista

September 28, 2013 • San Juan Bautista, California

Registration Now Open www.DoubleRoadRaceSanJuanBautista.com Saturday September 28, 2013 San Juan Bautista, California

Manhattan The Little Apple

November 9, 2013 • Manhattan, Kansas

Registration Now Open www.DoubleRoadRaceManhattan.com Saturday November 9, 2013 Manhattan, Kansas

Pleasanton December 22, 2013 • Pleasanton, California

Registration Now Open www.DoubleRoadRacePleasanton.com Sunday December 22, 2013 Pleasanton, California

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The DOUBLE Road Race®

AT OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS

Welcome to the Double Road Race® Overland Park

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Only the second Double ever held in America, it’s altogether fitting that the location is Overland Park, Kan., where Bob Anderson, creator of the Double, was raised. This event will also mark the return to Kansas for special guest Billy Mills, Olympic hero and 10, 000m gold medalist, who went to high school and college in Kansas. The course for this race features clean, wide roads shaded over by trees that hovered over the campgrounds of soldiers during the Civil War and Native American settlements of the Colonial American era. Overland Park has consistently ranked in the top 10 of the 100 Best Cities to Live in the United States, and now it hosts the Double Road Race®.

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Schedule of Events

June 30, 2013 6-7:00am Race Day Registration 7:30 Double Road Race® 10K leg 9:15 Double Road Race® 5K leg 10:00 Bob Anderson's Kids' Cup One-Mile (13 and under) 10:30 Awards Ceremony Event Management & Support Bruce Gilbert, Meet Director Raceday Timing Solutions, Event Timing Services Overland Park Police Corporate Woods

Double Road Race Federation Staff Bob Anderson, Producer Catherine Cross, Financial Manager Amanda Gardner, Operations Manager Suzanne Campi, Sales Manager Barry Anderson, Creative Director Justin Wall, Business Development Director Waitman Gobble, Webmaster David Prokop, Editorial Director Brad Graham, Media Manager Michael Anderson, Media Director Rich Stiller, Race Support Director Winton Jew, Sponsorship Sales Bill Dunn, Records & Statistics

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Course Map & Overview Corporate Woods Overland Park, Kansas

Awards...Lots of awards!

The awards will be given out at 10:30 (You must be present to receive your award) Our sponsors have helped us to provide the following items to our participants. • Thanks to Ujena Fit Club every runner will receive a special Double Road Race® (DRR) logo drawstring backpack. The Double Awards: • DRR logo high-performance men’s and women’s shirts for the first 400 who signed up. • All finishers will receive a DRR logo Custom two-sided medallion with ribbon. • Thanks to Mizuno and Garry Gribbles Running Sports, top three men and women will receive a pair of training shoes. • A custom DRR two-sided medallion for top five in each age group—19 and under, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74, 75 and over. • The Double Victory Cup will be awarded for the best age-graded performance. Champion‘s Crystal will be awarded for the best overall male and female performance.

• $4000 in cash prizes, and a $1000 bonus in the event of a world record (overall) are provided by the Double Road Race Federation. Team Awards: All three runners on the winning teams in each of the five Team Divisions will receive a custom laser-engraved plaque. A team is made up of three runners. There will be all male teams, all female teams and mixed teams. A total of $400 in cash prizes will be awarded. Kids Awards: • Each boy and girl who finishes will receive a special medal. • A custom medal will go to the top three finishers (boys and girls) in the following age categories—4 and under, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. • A special trophy will go to the first boy and first girl to finish.

Both the 10K and the 5K will start and finish in front of the Corporate Woods Headquarters building on Indian Creek Parkway. The 10K will be run as two laps of the course. On the first lap of the 10K, runners will turn right approximately 150 yards from the finish line and run behind (south) the Headquarters building. After passing the 5K mark and water stop, runners will turn right again on Indian Creek Parkway to rejoin the first lap course. You are asked to please line up for the start according to the mile pace signs. This will help all runners better navigate some of the early course turns. Please be sure to listen for starting announcements and countdowns to the posted starting times for both legs of the Double. Mile splits (shown in yellow on map) will be provided, along with water stops. All roads will not be closed. The course is clearly marked and course marshals will provide additional assistance along the entire course.

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One Mile RUN/WALK

Please move though the finish area as quickly as possible as we are expecting a large field. This is a fast course with an overall elevation change of only 115 feet! The steepest climb is just before the two- and five-mile mark. Bob Anderson's Kids' Cup Mile will use the same start and finish line on Indian Creek Parkway. Most of the Mile run/walk will be visible for spectators from the grassy knoll that divides Indian Creek Parkway. Medical facilities are located in the Recovery Zone.

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he Double Road Race Federation (DRRF) is the governing body of the Double Road Race® and the new sport of Double Road Racing. Clearly the Double Road Race® has a lot of potential–it has been called “the next dimension in racing.” Consequently it seems both logical and appropriate that the Double must become part of the fitness and running scene all over the country, so runners everywhere can experience the fun, the benefits and the challenge. The DRRF has established the official guidelines, rules and regulations, and maintains the official performance records. This information is now available through the annual Runner's Guide to the Double Road Race®. The first volume of this useful and interesting publication is a 64page, magazine format booklet that includes no advertisements. The Runner's Guide to the Double Road Race® is packed with articles on the creation of the Double Road Race®, profiles of some of the top competitors in this new sport, training ideas, and no fewer than 25 strategies you can use in the Double Road Race®.

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RUNNER'S GUIDE

The Runner's Guide to the Double Road Race® also includes a section on the rules of the sport and an extensive performance list section. This information provides the perfect way to see how your

times compare with other runners around the world who are taking on this exciting new running challenge.

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Runner's Guide to the Double Road Race®

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FACTS ABOUT THE DOUBLE

Facts About the Double ► Formally named the Double Road Race® and registered as such (registration number 85757593), this unique new running competition is called the Double for short.

of physical therapy. The Recovery Zone also serves as a social environment for competitors to meet and greet fellow runners and compare race strategies and experiences.

► The Double Road Race® was conceived and created by Bob Anderson, who envisioned an event “that was something like the triathlon, only different.” The result was the Double, a two-stage race where competitors don’t switch from swimming to cycling to running, they just run!

► One of the great visionaries in the history of running, Bob Anderson was the founder and publisher of Runner’s World magazine, which he sold to Rodale Press in 1984. As far back as the 1970s he was developing innovative running events like the 24-hour relay, where teams consisting of two to 10 runners ran alternate miles for 24 hours.

► Contrary to first impression, the Double does not involve running two races in one day. Rather it is one race consisting of two segments or legs. Competitors run a 10K on the road, than after a recovery break, they run a concluding 5K leg, which starts 1 hour, 45 minutes after the start of the 10K. ► Finishing order in the Double is based on cumulative or aggregate time; therefore, it’s actually irrelevant what your finishing position is in the 10K or the 5K. The only thing that counts, in the end, is your cumulative or aggregate time. This fact underscores why the Double is not two races in one day, but one race consisting of two legs. ► A much more strategic event than a regular race, the Double has as its end goal – how to pace yourself properly through the 10K and 5K, factoring in the recovery break, so you run your best aggregate time, or at least do your best against your competitors, because even in the Double Road Race® you’re not just running against the clock, but you’re also running against other people. For instance, if you hope to win, you can’t just ignore your main competitors and allow them to get too big a time advantage on you in the 10K, because you won’t be able to make up the deficit in the shorter 5K. ► Bob Anderson has said of his creation, the Double Road Race®, “It is the only race with a halftime.” ► Competitors in the Double are free to do whatever they want between the finish of the 10K and the start of the 5K, but a formal Recovery Zone is provided where they can get everything from nutrition and hydration to massage, exercise equipment (to help them stay loose) and various other forms

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► The first Double ever held in America took place on Dec. 23, 2012 in Pleasanton, Calif., across the bay from San Francisco. That’s also the day the new sport of Double Road Racing was born! More than 1000 runners participated, with Fernando Cabada of Boulder, Colo,., winning the men’s division, Tina Kefalas of Hillsborough, Calif., winning the women’s division, and Christine Kennedy of Los Gatos, Calif., posting the best agegraded performance. ► The fastest aggregate time anyone has ever recorded for the 10K and 5K of the Double is 45:34, which is the time Fernando Cabada achieved in winning the Pleasanton Double. A native of Fresno, Calif., who now trains in Boulder, Colo., he ran the 10K in 30:31 and the 5K in 15:02. ► The fastest aggregate time ever recorded for the 10K and 5K of the Double by a female is 54:03, which Tina Kefalas posted in winning the women’s division in the Pleasanton Double. She ran the 10K in 35:55 and the 5K in 18:07. Kefalas, who’s of Greek descent, lives in the San Francisco area, but represented Greece in the women’s marathon at the 2012 London Olympics. ► Prior to the Pleasanton Double, seven developmental or trial Doubles had been held in Mexico, where Bob Anderson’s company, Ujena Swimwear, does many promotional events. ► The Overland Park Double is only the second Double Road Race® ever held in America. ► Seven Doubles have been scheduled across America for 2013 – see schedule on page 7.

All these events are sanctioned and organized by the Double Road Race Federation (DRRF), which is the organization Bob Anderson has set up as the governing body of the new sport. ► A guest of honor and competitor at the inaugural Pleasanton Double was Bill Rodgers, four-time winner of the Boston Marathon, four-time winner of the New York City Marathon, and arguably the greatest road racer this country has ever produced. Rodgers received the Bob Anderson Lifetime Achievement Award during the awards ceremony following the Pleasanton Double. ► The added strategy options available in the Double compared to a regular road race make it seem like a chess match compared to checkers; indeed, the Double has been called “a runner’s chess match on the roads in shoes, shorts and a singlet.” ► Bill Rodgers has said of the Double, “Folks will appreciate this competition a lot more when they realize it’s a strategy event with options available to all competitors.” ► Bill Dunn, who set a world record of 63:42 (42:36/21:05) in the 65-69 age group at Pleasanton, said of the Double afterwards, “I like the fact it’s a cerebral event, not just a physical event.” ► From the beginning, the Double was set up as a professional event -- with prize money going to the top finishers, overall and by age group. ► The male and female leaders in the Double after the opening 10K leg are required to wear a yellow jersey, as in the Tour de France, to identify the race leaders on cumulative time in the concluding 5K leg. ► A Leader Board will be maintained by the Double Road Race Federation throughout the year to identify the current money and points leaders – see page 14. The leaders at year’s end will share in the $30,000 in prize money awarded to the top performers. Note: For more news and information about the Double, go to www.doubleroadrace.com.

RUNNERS TO WATCH

Runners to Watch

Some of the leading entrants in today's Double Road Race® Overland Park Christine Kennedy

At Pleasanton, Calif., last December, in the first Double ever held on American soil, she posted the best age-graded performance, with an aggregate time of 58:34 (39:14/19:19) at age 57. Not much of a surprise, considering that this 5’1”, 98-lb. ageless marvel from Los Gatos, Calif., is truly one of the most amazing runners in the world. At the Chicago Marathon last October, she ran 2:56:04, becoming the first woman 57 or older to run under 3 hours for the marathon – and she did it while suffering cramps the last 16 miles of the race! This year in the Boston Marathon, she inexplicably wasn’t accorded elite runner status and had to stand in the cold for what seemed forever before the start, with the result she never even saw Joan Benoit during the race. And while Joan, at age 55, set a new world record in the marathon in the 55-59 age group, clocking 2:50:29, Christine ran 2:55:01; however, since Christine was 58 when she competed in Boston, her time translates to a better agegraded performance!

Molly Pritz

At age 25, this 5’7”, 118-lb. runner from Boulder, Colo. (she’s originally from Williamsport, Penn.) is a major force at the longer distances on the road. In 2011 she ran 2:31:52 in New York at age 23 in her marathon debut. Some debut! Last year she set a personal best in the half-marathon, running 1:10:45 over a tough course in San Francisco that could have cost her as much as a minute. In 2011 she won the U.S. 25K national championship in a time of 1:25:38. A graduate of Bucknell University, with a degree in geology and geochemistry, she’s single and she’s dedicated (“I date running,” she quips). Her only drawback going into the Overland Park Double is that she’s easing back into training after surgery in late March for two torn tendons in her left ankle. But with credentials like hers, she doesn’t have to be in top shape to be a tough competitor in a race like the Double.

Tyler McCandless

He made a big impression with his impressive third-place finish in the inaugural Pleasanton Double last December, running 47:13 (31:41/15:31); he’ll also be the race director of the Denver Double on July 21. Winner of the Kauai Marathon the last two years, this native Pennsylvanian now living in Boulder, Colo., where he’s working towards a Ph.D. in meteorology, has a marathon best of 2:17.09 and he’s run the halfmarathon in 1:04:59. Tough competitor, great recuperative power, he seems made to order for a competition like the Double. His boyhood hero was his father, Ralph – a college wrestler! Earlier this year he started working with a new coach, Steve Jones, former marathon world recordholder from Wales who’s now coaching runners in Boulder.

Josh Baden

Only 23 years old, from the little town of Colby, Kan., near the Colorado border, he’s a recent graduate of the University of Kansas in mathematics and works as an actuary for an insurance company, Security Benefit, in Topeka. At Kansas he was a walk-on in both track and cross-country, but lettered three of the four years he was at the university and was a member of the Academic AllBig 12 Team all four years! His fastest times on the track in college were 30:47 for the 10,000, 14:39 for the 5000, and he typically was one of the top five runners scoring for the Jayhawks in crosscountry. Now that college is behind him, his future as a runner clearly seems to lie on the roads at the longer distances, particularly since he won the tough Hospital Hill Half-Marathon in Kansas City June 1, against a field of 4500, in 1:10:55 on a course someone has described as “all uphill.” He’s planning to run the Chicago Marathon in October, and his ultimate goal is to qualify for the 2016 U.S. Olympic trials in the marathon.

Matt Chesang

A native of Kenya, this 5’5”, 124-lb. distance star graduated from Kansas State University in 2006. Now 31, he’s become a U.S. citizen and serves in the U.S. Army as an aviation mechanic at Fort Riley, Kan. At Kansas State he had best times of 29:35 for the 10,000, 14 minutes flat for the 5000, and was an All-American in cross-country in 2004. Since graduating (his degree is in management), he’s concentrated on road racing and has run 1:04:48 for the half-marathon and 2:19:55 for the marathon. Benson Chesang, his younger brother, attended Kansas University. Matt is stronger at the longer distances, Benson is faster at the shorter distances. Typically, they work as a team in races – when they’re entered in the same event. This could certainly be advantageous in a highly strategic competition like the Double.

Benson Chesang

Also from Kenya and Matt Chesang’s younger brother (by one year), this 5’6”, 128-lb. graduate of the University of Kansas in economics ran 3:45 for the 1500, 7:57 for the 3000, 13:55 for the 5000 and 29:30 for the 10,000 in college. He also ran under four minutes for the mile in a distance medley relay while at Kansas. Now he exclusively runs road races – and does so very well. A volunteer assistant track and cross-country coach at Kansas, he ran about two dozen races last year and says, “Most of the road races that I’ve run, I’ve won them” He lives in Lawrence, Kan., his brother lives in Junction City. “Most of the time we go to different races, but sometimes we enter the same event,” he says. The Overland Park Double is one of those times. And while they usually work as a team when running in the same race, finishing in an intentional tie is never part of the strategy. “It’s every man for himself towards the end of the race,” Benson says.

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LEADER BOARD AND PERFORMANCE RANKING

Leader Board & Rankings

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All rankings as of June 29, 2013. Complete performance rankings are available in the Runner's Guide to the Double Road Race® (page 11).

Men’s Leader Board POS

Name

Age

Fernando Cabada

Women’s Leader Board

Events

Dollars

Points

POS

Name

Age

Events

Dollars

Points

$1,000.00

Tina Kefalas

$1,000.00

Daniel Tapia

$266.66

Christine Kennedy

$600.00

Marcial Soto

$100.00

Barbara Miller

$100.00

Tyler McCandless

$116.66

Michelle Meyer

$300.00

Hans Schmid

$100.00

Verity Breen

$200.00

Matt Duffy

Sharlet Gilbert

$100.00

Cheyne Inman

$100.00

Alyssa Horning

Terry McCluskey

$50.00

Heather Tanner

$200.00

$100.00

Monica Jo Nicholson

$66.66

Chantelle Wilder

Brian Davis

Tyson Popplestone

Jose Morales

$66.66

Katie Murphy

Robert Verhees

$50.00

Bret Scofield

$100.00

Christine Brighton

Natalie Dimits

34 30 30 $66.66

25 25

John Van Metre

Alan Reynolds

Matthew Laye

Tara Carreira

Osamu Tada

Rosa Gutierrez

Robert McLauchlan

Rosaura Tennant

$50.00

Ivan Medina

$100.00

Kat Powell

$50.00

Neville Davey

$66.66

Gianna Biaggi

$16.66

Jose Pina Jr

Robyn Roybal

$25.00

Men’s Top 10 Times

Name

Age Country Time 10K 5K

Fernando Cabada Daniel Tapia Tyler McCandless Matt Duffy Cheyne Inman Tyson Popplestone Matthew Laye Jose Morales Robert McLaughlan Ivan Medina

30 26 26 22 27 25 31 29 21 26

45:34 46:05 47:13 47:15 47:33 47:48 48:33 48:33 48:46 48:56

USA USA USA USA USA AUS USA USA USA USA

30:31 31:01 31:41 31:50 31:49 32:09 32:36 32:29 32:35 32:38

15:02 15:03 15:31 15:24 15:44 15:39 15:56 16:04 16:10 16:18

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$66.66

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$66.66

25 22

$66.66

21 20

Location

Date

Pleasanton, CA Pleasanton, CA Pleasanton, CA Pleasanton, CA Pleasanton, CA Pleasanton, CA Pleasanton, CA Pleasanton, CA Pleasanton, CA Pleasanton, CA

12/23/12 12/23/12 12/23/12 12/23/12 12/23/12 12/23/12 12/23/12 12/23/12 12/23/12 12/23/12

Pleasanton, CA Pleasanton, CA Puerto Vallarta MX Puerto Vallarta MX Pleasanton, CA Pleasanton, CA Pleasanton, CA Pleasanton, CA Pleasanton, CA Puerto Vallarta MX

12/23/12 12/23/12 6/16/2012 6/16/2012 12/23/12 12/23/12 12/23/12 12/23/12 12/23/12 6/18/2011

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Women’s Top 10 times Tina Kefalas Michelle Meyer Monica Equihoa Solorzano Ema Joya Heather Tanner Monica Jo Nicholson Chantelle Wilder Christine Kennedy Verity Breen Ema Joya

35 25 29 30 34 31 27 57 46 29

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USA/GRC USA MX MX USA USA USA USA AUS MX

54:03 54:42 55:02 55:36 56:14 56:48 58:00 58:34 59:01 59:51

35:55 36:23 36:45 37:03 37:23 37:45 38:47 39:14 39:05 40:31

18:07 18:19 18:17 18:33 18:50 19:03 19:13 19:19 19:55 19:20

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