Life on the Run
Language: English
Published by Arthur H.Stockwell Ltd, 2002
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- Title
- Life on the Run
- Author
- Eldon, Stan
- Publisher
- Arthur H.Stockwell Ltd
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0722334095
- ISBN 13
- 9780722334096
From the Publisher
As a young runner from the age of sixteen years, he was ranked in the first three in the country at the one mile, and progressed by the time he was twenty years old to two World Best Performances for a junior at the 3 miles and 6 miles.
After Military Service he rejoined the Berkshire Police as a constable where he further progressed his running career, including winning AAA Championships at both 3 and 6 miles; British records at 5 and 6 miles, as well as the 10,000 metres and International Cross-Country Champion (the forerunner of what are now the World Championships). He also won many international races on the track at various distances, as well as setting records in many road races.
In 1961 he left the police and was the first athlete to start a retail sports business under his own name, and ran a successful sports business for over twenty-five years, which included introducing the first specialist road running shoes in this country.
In 1983 he was instrumental in setting up the Reading Half Marathon, which for many years was, and still is, one of the largest and most successful events of its kind in the country. This 'hobby' eventually took over his life and more similar event organisation followed.
In more recent years he has worked for Disability Sport, both professionally and as a volunteer, and was Chairman of the National Board of Disability Sport England. Later he was Regional Director of SportsAid in the South, where he organised many sporting and fund-raising events to help fund the young-and-coming sports stars. He is still involved with sport through his weekly column in the Reading Evening Post, and reports on many athletic events over a wide area. This interest in sport for disabled people has been maintained by his current position as Chairman of the English Federation of Disability
Sport in the South.
Outside sport he has been a Rotarian for twenty-five years and has served Rotary International as a District Governor for the District that covers the Thames Valley, and on two occasions ran 116 miles between Reading and Meru, near Beauvais in France, to raise money for charities connected to sport for disabled people.
He has been on the run for fifty-three years and is still running today although suffering from diabetes and having a pacemaker fitted to control the very slow heartbeat. He has been married to his wife Marion for forty-four years and has five children and six grandchildren.
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