I have been a fan of Carl Hatfield since I first saw him with a number one on his chest, looked like a hillbilly hippie, winning another race where the dogs can’t even keep up with him. The double-fisted peace signs for victory.
And these days, look at the smile. What’s not to love about a running life well lived.
And remembered.
Back in the day, Carl Hatfield was the real McCoy.
See what I did there. That’s some Critical Running Theory… An Original Gangster of Running.
When did you start running and why?
I grew up in Matewan, West Virginia. This is a small coal mining town that is ground zero for the infamous Hatfield–McCoy Feud. These folks were my ancestors. My father was a disabled coal miner and this led to me trying to find my way in the male-dominated world I grew up in. I had dreams of being a great basketball player like Jerry West (the NBA logo) of West Virginia University and the Los Angeles Lakers, but I only grew to be five- feet eight-inches tall and ended up sitting on the bench at Matewan High School. So, after my sophomore year of trying to be a basketball star, I concentrated on the academic side of school. I was one of only two boys inducted into the National Honor Society and I earned my Eagle Badge in the Boy Scouts of America. I had also been riding my bicycle seven miles a day delivering the “Williamson Daily News” for about four years in order to get extra money to spend on clothes or girls on dates after I obtained my driver’s license.
My entry in running started my senior year (1964-65) at Matewan High School. I had talked my parents (especially Mom) in letting me try out for the football team, even though I was the second smallest guy out there at 135 pounds. I made second team guard on offense and second team outside linebacker on defense. I didn’t realize I made second team because of lack of numbers because there were no third team. I practiced hard and enjoyed hitting people on defense, as I thought of myself as the reincarnation of Sam Huff from West Virginia University and Hall of Fame career as a Washington Redskin linebacker.
The one and only pre-season scrimmage game came up against Belfry, Kentucky and all players were promised playing time. I was inserted in as a linebacker. The next play by Belfry involved a flare out pass to their 6’5″, 240-pound end who was coming my way. I hit him low and another Matewan player hit him high to make the stop. The only problem was that this monster had stepped on my left foot as he went down. This broke my big toe and I was one and done. My last period each day – I became a library assistant instead of a tackle football player. My Mom was relieved!
Matewan High School only had football and basketball for boys ( no sports at all for girls unless the girls were cheerleaders or majorettes) until 1965 when wrestling and outdoor track were added. I decided to go out for the mile, the longest event in West Virginia at that time.
My cousin, Don Hatfield, asked me to go out for the track team as he had run the mile and the half-mile in the one Mingo County Field Day for P.E.[Physical Education] classes. Our season would start in April but I went out from home in a flannel shirt, blue jeans and high-top tennis shoes on February 1,1965 to run one estimated mile up Mate Creek and back. This is recorded in my first training log. I now in 2021 am working on my 57th training log and have close to 99.000 actual miles of training and racing.
I ran my first mile race on a cinder track that took 5.5 laps to make a mile in a winning time of 5:21. I also won the half mile and anchored the winning 2-mile relay. I got to see my name in the sports page as the high scorer and got my first little trophy. I was snake-bitten and had finally found my sport. I ran in five track meets that season and broke the regional mile record in 4:41 at Fairfield Stadium at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. I was promised a partial track scholarship at Marshall if I would win the State Meet in the mile at Laidley Field in Charleston.
I led the entire way but was outsprinted by 8-tenths of a second in 4:35.2 to end up third. No scholarship to Marshall but I ended up obtaining a book on training from the County Bookmobile, purchased a pair of Adidas training flats, and a German Heuer stopwatch and I started running seven miles each day on the mining and logging roads of Mingo County.
I was a walk-on the freshman team at West Virginia University. I went looking for the “running coach” and found Coach Stan Romanoski in his office. He said he was the track & field coach and the cross country coach plus indoor track coach.
I asked, “What is cross country?”
He said, “Runners run anywhere from two miles to five miles in city parks, on golf courses or on dirt roads.”
That sounded good to you, didn’t it?
I told him I ran a mile in high school in track and that that I had run as much as seven miles at one time. He invited me to run for the freshman team as he had only four freshmen on scholarship or partial scholarship, I showed up the next day for practice before our first freshman race of 2.5 miles in Schenley Park in Pittsburgh against the University of Pittsburgh.
The night before the races, there was a rainstorm that washed away the chalk marking the course through the Park and over the Golf Course. Coach Romanoski complained to the Pitt coach that. “My boys won’t know where to go.” The Pitt Coach replied, “Don’t worry, Stan, I have the Maryland State High School Cross-Country Champion on our freshman team. Tell your boys to follow him.” Coach was pissed when he told us, his own frosh, this story.
The starter fired the gun and I was gone. I led the fast first mile, then went off course with my teammates yelling at me. I finally caught back up with the Maryland State Cross-Country Champion, as we came off the Golf Course. I won the race in a new freshman course record of 12:41 for the hilly 2.5 mile race.
The following Monday before practice, Coach called me to his office and showed me the newspaper article about the race. He had turned me into a folk hero and he said he was putting me on full scholarship, He also told me he had called my Mother back in Mingo County and told her about the race and that he was putting me on scholarship. He told me she cried. Up until the scholarship offer I wasn’t quite sure how I was going to pay for the second semester’s tuition, books, fees and room and board.
I went on from there to make All American twice, becoming the first West Virginia runner to do so and I left WVU with nine school records in outdoor and indoor track.
FAVORITE COMEDIAN?
Eddie Murphy of his SNL years
TOUGHEST OPPONENT AND WHY?
As I look back over my running career in the late 60s and 70s, when I was young and competitive, I would say that Sam Bair of Kent State and Jerry Richey of the University of Pittsburgh were my really serious competitors. as I ran against them in cross country, indoor track and outdoor track. I could list Gerry Lindgren of Washington State University but he won every national championship race I was in and I wasn’t competitive with him. I was one year younger than Bair and one year older than Ritchey.
They were both sub-four minute milers and therein lay their success against me, as they both would sit on me in a race and let me lead until the last few yards. Then they would blow by me in the sprint in to the finish line.
The best examples of this for each is the Penn Relays Two-Mile on Saturday morning of that relay weekend. 1978, I was leading with 440-yards to go on the gun lap over five other competitors. Sam Bair won in 8:46 and I finished fifth in 8:52.
In 1969, the same scenario played out except Sam Bair had graduated and Jerry Richey was on my case, as I led at the gun lap. Jerry Richey won in 8:46.4 with Dick Buerkle of Villanova in second in 8:46.6; Jim Dolan of Michigan in third in 8:47.4; Mike Hazilla of Western Michigan in 8:49.4 and I finished fifth again in 8:49.8.
I was not a kicker but a pacer. This is why I ended up in the marathon later in my career.
MOST MEMORABLE RUN AND WHY?
The most enjoyable victory I had in college was during my senior year at West Virginia University in cross country in 1968, I ran the NCAA South Regional Cross Country race at the Georgia Tech Atlanta Water Works 5.5 mile course. The course record had been set by one Jack Bacheler of the Florida Track Club who ran 26:42. Bacheler was a 5000-meter Olympian who had gotten back from the Mexico Olympics where he had contracted “Montezuma”s Revenge” from drinking their water. He made the 1972 Olympic Team in the marathon and finished much better.
I was the defending South Regional cross country champion from 1967 when I won the 6-mile race in record time at the James Blair course at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia.
I was not favored on this relatively flat 1.1 mile loop course that runners ran five times. The favorite was Howell Michaels, a sub-four-minute miler from William and Mary or Owen Self of Tennessee, members of the top two teams. Top three teams automatically qualify for the NCAA National Cross Country Meet in New York City’s Van Cortlandt Park.
I knew my strength was my endurance, so my plan was to use their speed against them.
The gun fired and I blazed to the front with the first mile in 4:34 and after the first loop I had a five-yard lead but I kept the pedal down and after the second loop my lead was ten yards over a small pack of seven runners, I continued on my pace of 4:36 to 4:42 miles so that entering the last loop I had a lead of about fifty yards with the trailing pack splintering behind me. I sprinted across the finish line in a new course record of 25:58.2 with Howell Michael in 2nd in 26:14 with Owen Self in 3rd in 26:26. My first place helped the West Virginia University men’s team to third place overall and our first trip ever to the National meet as a team.
My best post-collegiate run and most memorable of my running career was the National AAU Marathon Championship Race on the Skylon course that started in Buffalo, New York and finished at Niagara Falls in Canada. I had finished third in the Skylon race in 1975 in October after coming off a bad chest cold. But I was in much better physical shape for this National championship race. I knew, after crossing the Peace Bridge into Canada, the course changed directions and we most likely would be running into a headwind.
My shortcoming was my mental preparation was off. My wife, Susan, had left me in August with our son, Bryan, after nine years of marriage. I had not been a loving and carrying husband and father; my life had revolved around running 100 miles a week, my busy job at Alderson-Broaddus College and the next race on my schedule.
There were three thousand runners on race day with many under the 2:20:00 magic barrier. I stayed in the top front 10 runners thru a 50:05 ten-mile point. I felt the headwind of almost twenty miles per hour at times. I ran in a blur as my many miles that summer in hilly West Virginia kept me in the top five. I found myself in fifth place at 20 miles but feeling full of running. I caught two runners before mile 22 and looked to see Canadian Don Howieson about 30 yards in front of me and Ron Wayne, the 1974 National AAU Marathon Champion from California about 60 yards up on me.
I cranked it up a notch and caught Howieson and at 23 miles I went by Ron Wayne but he wouldn’t give in so easily. At 24 miles the course turned East following the curvature of the Niagara River. From 25 to the 26th mile sign I cranked out a 4:47 mile that broke Ron Wayne. I won in a new course record in 2:17:20 while Wayne finished in 2:18:12 with Howieson in 2:19:20. I received the National Championship trophy and invitations to a half-marathon race in London, England and the Sea of Galilee Marathon in Israel.
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BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT AND WHY?
I qualified for the Olympic Trials in 1972 in three events ( the 5000 meters , the 10,000 meters and the Marathon), but due to my own coaching and poor planning I ended running only the Marathon in Eugene, Oregon. I dropped out of the Marathon at 14 miles. I found out later I had mononucleosis.
My wife and I had resigned our teaching jobs in Parkersburg, West Virginia at the end of the 1971 school year and headed off to WVU for graduate school where we both had received our undergraduate degrees in 1969.
I formed the West Virginia Track Club in August,1971 and our distance runners immediately ran a world record for the 10 man–24 hour relay with each runner running one mile and handing off the baton to your next runner. Our record lasted for six (6!) hours as a team from England beat our record as recorded by “Runner’s World.” I led off and personally ran 30 miles in an average time of 4:54 each, and I tried to sleep, rest and eat during these 24 hours.
I ran well that fall and entered the Olympic year in good shape. First thing I ran two indoor two-mile races in 8:59.4 and 8:59.2 in Columbus and Cleveland, Ohio, respectively. I had no indoor facility at WVU but most of my speed work was run on an outdoor track on top of a hill near the WVU Coliseum in cold and windy January. I had an excellent interval sessions training partner in Mike Mosser, who would that March win the NCAA National 1000-Yard title at Cobo Hall in Detroit , Michigan.
I was doing two workouts daily with distance runs in the mornings and 3
three days of interval speed sessions with Mosser each week. I was averaging around 100 miles each week but I did run 149 in a seven-day period in March, 1972. That happened to be spring break. In April I ran the 10,000 meters in the University of Kentucky Relays in 29:37 to qualify for the Olympic Trials, but had wrongfully ran a 30-Kilometer road race in Cleveland, Ohio in 1;38;16 for first place the week before. I then ran my first Boston Marathon in 2:22:07 for 12th place. I ran a 15-mile road race two weeks later in Cadiz, Ohio, a mistake, as my legs were dead. The Boston Marathon time got me to the Olympic Trials, also.
On May 5th and 6th I ran the 5000 meters and 10,000m on the old cinder track at the Quantico Relays. I had finished a close second to Tom Fleming in both races. I then got a late invitation to run the Martin Luther King Games 3 mile in historic but fast Franklin Field in Philadelphia. I ran 13:49.2 for 6th place but I got under the three-mile(5000 meter) time qualifier by 8/10 of a second.
My failure that spring is I ran twenty-five (25!) races in the first six months of 1972. And my Master’s thesis at WVU had to be defended in the middle of the Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon. I scratched out of the two track events and ran the marathon race at the end of the track events.
Based on the top five times, a fresh Carl Hatfield would have had a shot at making the team in the Marathon, if a sensible coach would have put a leash on me early in the year.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO DIFFERENTLY IF YOU COULD DO IT AGAIN? WHY?
See answer above. I would definitely run fewer races in the first six months of 1972.
And a second answer is that I would have been a better husband and father to my first wife and my son.
My first wife, Susan remarried and died of cancer in 1997. My son, Bryan Carl is now a Colonel in the US Marine Corp at the Pentagon. He should get a command in July. Lookout out, world – there should be a General Hatfield in a few years.
My second wife of forty years, Georgia Sturm, passed last August 7, 2020, from a benign tumor in her lungs.
FAVORITE PHILOSOPHER? FAVORITE QUOTE?
Isaiah, son of Amoz, in the Old Testament of the BIBLE.
—-Isaiah 40:29-31
He gives strength to the weary, and increases the power to the weak Even youth grow tired and weary. and young men stumble and fall. but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength,
They will soar on wings like eagles.
they will run and not grow weary, they will will walk and not be faint.
Amen, brother.
SPECIAL SONG OF THE ERA?
“ALL OF MY LIFE IS A CIRCLE” by HARRY CHAPIN.
WHAT WAS YOUR BEST STRETCH OF RUNNING? AND WHY DO YOU THINK YOU HIT THAT LEVEL AT THAT TIME?
Two stretches:
- (a) 1974-76 and my youth and mileage.
- (b) 1978 and thirteen years of accumulated mileage and experience.
WHAT WAS YOUR EDGE?
Muscular endurance or strength as measured at the WVU Exercise Physiology Laboratory at 78 ML of Oxygen per Kilogram of body weight.
WHAT SUPPLEMENTARY EXERCISE DID YOU DO?
None, as I didn’t have time. But I also scored ZERO on Flexibility.
WHAT WAS YOUR TOUGHEST INJURY AND HOW DID YOU DEAL WITH IT?
Coming into the Boston Marathon of April, 1979, I was the defending National AAU Marathon Champion, and had run by invitation in England and Israel in late 1978. I was a mean and lean 135-pounds (down from 140 ) and had run 48:30 for ten miles at the Cherry Blossom race two weeks before Boston. ADIDAS shoe company had picked me up as a sponsored athlete after the Brooks shoe Company had declared bankruptcy. I was ready to break 2:17:00. I flew thru ten miles in 48:30 in a large group about thirty seconds behind leaders Tom Fleming and Kevin Ryan of New Zealand. I was sixth at fifteen miles in 1:13:30 and could still see the two leaders, Bill Rodgers and Toshiko Seko of Japan.
The outside temperature was a cool 47 degrees with a slight rain falling. This was perfect for me as I was flying and still had some energy in the tank. At sixteen miles I came up a small rise in the road where there were a few bars and maybe a 100 spectators cheering and offering beer to the runners, A dog ran directly in front of me and I tried initially to put brakes on the wet road but this was not going to work. I tried to hurdle the animal but my feet were knocked out from under me. I landed on my right hip and head. I was nearly knocked out but some drunks picked me up and set me staggering down the race course.
I ran in a shock to the eighteen-mile mark with other fast runners passing by me. I stopped at about eighteen miles and sucked on an orange half to regain my thoughts. I wanted to drop out but there was no warm “meat wagon bus” to pick me up, so I walked and slowed, eventually jogged to finish in 400th place in 2:34:something, as the largest and fastest mass finish occurred in front of me.
I was there, too. https://www.jackdogwelch.com/?p=940
I had gone from a competitive 6th place to 400th. My hip and pelvic area were messed up. This took me nearly three months of light running, physical therapy and the help of a chiropractor to get me back to somewhat of a normal runner. I did run 2:19:52 in the New York City Marathon that early November, but I was never the same runner again.
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Regarded as the premier harrier in the history of West Virginia cross country, Carl Hatfield was WVU’s first-ever cross country All-American. As a junior, Hatfield won his first All-America honors by finishing 20th at the NCAA meet in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1967. He followed that with a 10th-place finish during his senior season in New York City, to earn his second-straight All-America award.
The Matewan, West Virginia, native also won two NCAA district titles, the first in 1967 at Williamsburg, Virginia, and the second in 1968 at Atlanta, Georgia. Including NCAA championships, Hatfield won 27 of 35 cross country races he entered during his time in Morgantown.
At the time he graduated, Hatfield held or shared Mountaineer records in five indoor events and nine outdoor events. He is one of only two WVU athletes who have won three distance track events in one meet and was named WVU’s outstanding senior in academics and athletics in 1968.
Hatfield lettered from 1966-68 for Coach Stan Romanoski and was team captain as a senior. He also ran track for the Mountaineers and won several Eastern and Southern conference titles. After graduating in 1969 with a degree in biology and education, Hatfield founded the West Virginia Track Club, which developed into one of the top running clubs on the East Coast.
In 1972, he earned his master’s degree from WVU in guidance and counseling, and then went on to lead the WVTC to the Boston Marathon team championship in 1974, and the AAU national team championship in 1978. Hatfield also won the AAU national marathon championship in 1978 and represented the United States at several meets around the world. A direct descendant of history’s famed Hatfield (and McCoy) family, he ironically won the Ray McCoy Award as West Virginia’s best amateur track athlete in 1976. Hatfield is also one of only a handful of distance runners who have qualified for four U.S. Olympics Trials.
Hatfield was born May 5, 1947, at Matewan, and is a graduate of Matewan High School.
Given name Carl
Surname Hatfield
Birth date05 May 1947
Citizenship United States
Qualified by Time. Career prize money -$0. Career wins – 52
I don’t know about you, but that is so like my own running career. Except for the fifty-two wins.
Personal bests
| Type | Distance | Time | Flags | Site | Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RD | 10 km | 29:34 | Dunbar WV/USA | 07 Oct 1978 | ||
| RD | 15 km | 47:03 | Davis WV/USA | 25 Jun 1978 | ||
| RD | 10 mi | 49:09 | Washington DC/USA | 04 Apr 1976 | ||
| RD | 20 km | 1:02:20 | Akron OH/USA | 04 Jun 1978 | ||
| RD | Half Mara | 1:09:53 | Coamo PUR | 09 Feb 1975 | ||
| RD | 25 km | 1:18:34 | Youngstown OH/USA | 13 Nov 1976 | ||
| RD | 30 km | 1:38:16.8 | Cleveland OH/USA | 01 Apr 1972 | ||
| RD | Marathon | 2:17:21 | a | Niagara Falls ON/CAN | 21 Oct 1978 |
Source: The Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Good people. One guy we really miss.
Performances
Race | Prize money | Actions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Aug 1985 | 2 | 33:19 | RD | 10 km | Bridgeport WV/USA | Hardees Challenge | |||
| 05 Jan 1985 | 11 | 2:28:24 | RD | Marathon | Jacksonville FL/USA | Jacksonville | |||
| 11 Nov 1984 | 4 | 24:39 | RD | 5 mi | Rowiesburg WV/USA | Gobbler Run | |||
| 14 Oct 1984 | 1 | 33:58 | RD | 10 km | Canaan Valley WV/USA | Milk and Honey Distance Run | |||
| 16 Sep 1984 | 2 | 25:25 | RD | 5 mi | Clarksburg WV/USA | Run for the Summit | |||
| 25 Aug 1984 | 1 | 33:29 | RD | 10 km | Clarksburg WV/USA | Monza Run | |||
| 04 Aug 1984 | 2 | 33:59 | RD | 10 km | Bridgeport WV/USA | Hardee’s Challenge | |||
| 11 Mar 1984 | 4 | 25:29 | RD | 5 mi | Grafton WV/USA | Grafton | |||
| 18 Sep 1983 | 108 | 1:10:56 | RD | Half Mara | Philadelphia PA/USA | Philadelphia Distance Classic | |||
| 16 Jul 1983 | 5 | 34:02 | RD | 10 km | Fairmont WV/USA | Greater Fairmont | |||
| 13 Mar 1983 | 2 | 24:20 | RD | 5 mi | Grafton WV/USA | Grafton | |||
| 07 Nov 1982 | 21 | 2:27:55 | RD | Marathon | Washington DC/USA | Marine Corps | |||
| 20 Jun 1982 | 1 | 25:35 | RD | 5 mi | Clarksburg WV/USA | West Virginia Birthday Lite | |||
| 06 Jun 1982 | 9 | 52:29 | RD | 10 mi | Washington DC/USA | Hecht’s | |||
| 01 May 1982 | 3 | 53:05 | RD | 10 mi | Huntington WV/USA | Distance Classic | |||
| 03 Oct 1981 | 3 | 52:47 | RD | 10 mi | Morgantown WV/USA | University City | |||
| 22 Aug 1981 | 1 | 39:47 | RD | 10 km | Snowshoe WV/USA | Natural Light Mountain Challenge | |||
| 01 Aug 1981 | 3 | 1:07:29 | RD | 20 km | Fayetteville WV/USA | West Virginia Championships | |||
| 27 Jun 1981 | 9 | 31:25 | RD | 10 km | Butler PA/USA | Butler | |||
| 21 Jun 1981 | 1 | 25:56 | RD | 5 mi | Clarksburg WV/USA | West Virginia Birthday | |||
| 14 Jun 1981 | 2 | 32:01 | RD | 10 km | Beckley WV/USA | West Virginia | |||
| 26 Apr 1981 | 2 | 49:06 | RD | 15 km | Uniontown PA/USA | Athletic Attic Grand Prix | |||
| 07 Dec 1980 | 16 | 2:25:19 | RD | Marathon | Honolulu HI/USA | Honolulu | |||
| 29 Jun 1980 | 9 | 31:58 | RD | 10 km | Butler PA/USA | Butler | |||
| 22 Jun 1980 | 5 | 48:19 | RD | 15 km | Davis WV/USA | Alpine Cup | |||
| 13 Apr 1980 | 4 | 31:03 | RD | 10 km | Indiana PA/USA | Fools Run | |||
| 13 Apr 1980 | 1 | 25:35 | RD | 5 mi | Morgantown WV/USA | Pathfinder | |||
| 22 Mar 1980 | 4 | 31:19 | RD | 10 km | Myrtle Beach SC/USA | Myrtle Beach Can-Am | |||
| 05 Jan 1980 | 6 | 31:56 | RD | 10 km | Charlotte NC/USA | Charlotte Observer | |||
| 21 Oct 1979 | 32 | 2:21:47 | x | RD | Marathon | New York NY/USA | New York City | ||
| 13 Oct 1979 | 1 | 23:51 | RD | 5 mi | Morgantown WV/USA | Morgantown Distance Race | |||
| 30 Sep 1979 | 4 | 29:21 | a x | RD | 10 km | Pittsburgh PA/USA | Pittsburgh Great Race | ||
| 22 Sep 1979 | 15 | 50:18 | RD | 10 mi | Lynchburg VA/USA | Virginia | |||
| 21 Jul 1979 | 2 | 32:49 | RD | 10 km | Fairmont WV/USA | Greater Fairmont | |||
| 30 Jun 1979 | 5 | 31:30 | RD | 10 km | Butler PA/USA | Butler | |||
| 16 Jun 1979 | 2 | 32:21 | RD | 10 km | Wheeling WV/USA | Kidney Foundation | |||
| 01 Apr 1979 | 8 | 49:12 | RD | 10 mi | Washington DC/USA | Perrier Cherry Blossom | |||
| 24 Mar 1979 | 1 | 30:40 | RD | 10 km | Myrtle Beach SC/USA | Can-Am | |||
| 18 Mar 1979 | 1 | 23:21 | RD | 5 mi | Grafton WV/USA | Grafton | |||
| 16 Dec 1978 | 3 | 30:23 | RD | 10 km | Charlotte NC/USA | Charlotte Observer | |||
| 23 Nov 1978 | 2 | 45:05 | RD | 14.48 km | Berwick PA/USA | Berwick | |||
| 11 Nov 1978 | 9 | 1:21:26 | RD | 25 km | Youngstown OH/USA | International Peace Race | |||
| 29 Oct 1978 | 1 | 1:21:57 | RD | 25 km | Morgantown WV/USA | Mountaineer Days | |||
| 21 Oct 1978 | 1 | 2:17:21 | a | RD | Marathon | Niagara Falls ON/CAN | Skylon International | ||
| 07 Oct 1978 | 1 | 29:34 | RD | 10 km | Dunbar WV/USA | Dunbar Wine Cellar | |||
| 24 Sep 1978 | 4 | 29:12 | a x | RD | 10 km | Pittsburgh PA/USA | The Great Race | ||
| 17 Sep 1978 | 1 | 50:35 | RD | 10 mi | Pittsburgh PA/USA | Greater Pittsburgh RRC Championships | |||
| 02 Sep 1978 | 7 | 1:16:43 | RD | 15 mi | Charleston WV/USA | Charleston Distance Classic | |||
| 20 Aug 1978 | 22 | 34:25 | a | RD | 11.265 km | Falmouth MA/USA | Falmouth Road Race | ||
| 13 Aug 1978 | 5 | 31:09 | RD | 10 km | Uniontown PA/USA | Fayette County Distance Classic | |||
| 25 Jun 1978 | 2 | 47:03 | RD | 15 km | Davis WV/USA | AAU Championships | |||
| 17 Jun 1978 | 1 | 31:58 | RD | 10 km | St Albans WV/USA | St Albans Town Fair | |||
| 04 Jun 1978 | 3 | 1:02:20 | RD | 20 km | Akron OH/USA | Akron | |||
| 27 May 1978 | 10 | 1:04:17 | x | RD | 20 km | Wheeling WV/USA | Elby’s First National Bank of Wheeling | ||
| 23 Oct 1977 | 20 | 2:20:31.8 | x | RD | Marathon | New York NY/USA | New York City | ||
| 11 Sep 1977 | 12 | 2:20:03 | RD | Marathon | Eugene OR/USA | AAU Championships | |||
| 18 Apr 1977 | 11 | 2:21:16 | a | RD | Marathon | Boston MA/USA | Boston | ||
| 13 Nov 1976 | 4 | 1:18:34 | RD | 25 km | Youngstown OH/USA | International Peace Race | |||
| 24 Oct 1976 | 7 | 2:17:26 | x | RD | Marathon | New York NY/USA | New York City | ||
| 22 May 1976 | 12 | 2:19:18 | RD | Marathon | Eugene OR/USA | US Olympic Trials | |||
| 04 Apr 1976 | 1 | 49:09 | RD | 10 mi | Washington DC/USA | Cherry Blossom | |||
| 20 Mar 1976 | 1 | 2:19:04 | RD | Marathon | Huntington WV/USA | n/a | |||
| 21 Apr 1975 | 27 | 2:20:27 | a | RD | Marathon | Boston MA/USA | Boston | ||
| 06 Apr 1975 | 1 | 51:47 | RD | 10 mi | Washington DC/USA | Cherry Blossom | |||
| 09 Feb 1975 | 17 | 1:09:53 | RD | Half Mara | Coamo PUR | San Blas | |||
| 31 Aug 1974 | 21 | 1:22:35 | RD | 15 mi | Charleston WV/USA | Charleston Distance Classic | |||
| 02 Jun 1974 | 4 | 2:20:05 | RD | Marathon | Yonkers NY/USA | Yonkers | |||
| 15 Apr 1974 | 10 | 2:17:37 | a | RD | Marathon | Boston MA/USA | Boston | ||
| 10 Mar 1974 | 1 | 2:28:05.8 | RD | Marathon | Athens OH/USA | Athens | |||
| 21 Oct 1973 | 3 | 2:29:01 | RD | Marathon | Washington DC/USA | National Capital | |||
| 24 Jun 1973 | 6 | 1:44:47 | RD | 31.638 km | San Juan PUR | n/a | |||
| 16 Apr 1973 | 37 | 2:34:58 | a | RD | Marathon | Boston MA/USA | Boston | ||
| 04 Mar 1973 | 1 | 2:20:41.8 | RD | Marathon | Athens OH/USA | Athens | |||
| 02 Dec 1972 | 1 | 31:27 | RD | 10 km | Lexington VA/USA | n/a | |||
| 25 Nov 1972 | 14 | 31:13 | XC | 10 km | Chicago IL/USA | AAU Crosscountry Championships | |||
| 19 Nov 1972 | 2 | 15:04.2 | XC | 3 mi | Morgantown WV/USA | n/a | |||
| 11 Nov 1972 | 1 | 31:39 | XC | 10 km | Pittsburgh PA/USA | n/a | |||
| 05 Nov 1972 | 1 | 16:52 | XC | 5.3 km | Pittsburgh PA/USA | n/a | |||
| 27 Oct 1972 | 2 | 31:01 | XC | 6 mi | Morgantown WV/USA | n/a | |||
| 08 Oct 1972 | 1 | 33:42 | RD | 10.548 km | Canton OH/USA | Amoco | |||
| 01 Oct 1972 | 6 | 20:47.6 | x | RD | 7 km | London ON/CAN | Springbank | ||
| 27 Aug 1972 | 1 | 40:15 | RD | 12 km | Bedford OH/USA | n/a | |||
| 20 Aug 1972 | 1 | 26:11 | RD | 5 mi | Morgantown WV/USA | n/a | |||
| 02 Jul 1972 | 1 | 53:27 | RD | 10 mi | Fairmont WV/USA | n/a | |||
| 04 Jun 1972 | 1 | 1:04:49.2 | OT | 20 km | Morgantown WV/USA | n/a | |||
| 27 May 1972 | 1 | 50:46 | RD | 10 mi | Fairborn OH/USA | n/a | |||
| 17 Apr 1972 | 12 | 2:22:07 | a | RD | Marathon | Boston MA/USA | Boston | ||
| 01 Apr 1972 | 1 | 1:38:16.8 | RD | 30 km | Cleveland OH/USA | n/a | |||
| 19 Mar 1972 | 1 | 24:05 | RD | 5 mi | Morgantown WV/USA | n/a | |||
| 12 Mar 1972 | 1 | 50:44 | RD | 10 mi | Fairmont WV/USA | n/a | |||
| 06 Feb 1972 | 1 | 44:55 | RD | 13.8 km | Bedford OH/USA | n/a | |||
| 04 Dec 1971 | 1 | 30:46 | XC | 10 km | Lexington VA/USA | n/a | |||
| 27 Nov 1971 | 2 | 2:38:45 | RD | 20 mi | Parkersburg WV/USA | n/a | |||
| 07 Nov 1971 | 1 | 15:21 | XC | 3 mi | Pittsburgh PA/USA | n/a | |||
| 30 Oct 1971 | 4 | 29:54 | XC | 6 mi | University Park PA/USA | USTFF Eastern Crosscountry Championship | |||
| 24 Oct 1971 | 1 | 1:08:23 | RD | 21.4 km | Pittsburgh PA/USA | n/a | |||
| 17 Oct 1971 | 1 | 32:57 | RD | 10 km | Galion OH/USA | n/a | |||
| 10 Oct 1971 | 1 | 2:22:44 | a | RD | Marathon | Canton OH/USA | Amoco | ||
| 03 Oct 1971 | 1 | 18.617 km | OT | One Hour | Pittsburgh PA/USA | n/a | |||
| 25 Sep 1971 | 9 | 58:20 | RD | 18.6 km | London ON/CAN | Springbank International | |||
| 19 Sep 1971 | 1 | 1:21:38 | RD | 25 km | Cleveland OH/USA | n/a | |||
| 22 Aug 1971 | 1 | 1:23:25 | RD | 24.14 km | Bedford OH/USA | n/a | |||
| 06 Jun 1971 | 1 | 31:30 | RD | 6 mi | Parkersburg WV/USA | n/a | |||
| 30 May 1971 | 1 | 20:08 | RD | 4 mi | Parkersburg WV/USA | n/a | |||
| 01 May 1971 | 1 | 51:26 | RD | 10 mi | Dayton OH/USA | n/a | |||
| 11 Apr 1971 | 3 | 2:39:25 | RD | Marathon | Athens OH/USA | Athens | |||
| 20 Mar 1971 | 1 | 18.617 km | OT | One Hour | Mount Lebanon PA/USA | n/a | |||
| 14 Mar 1971 | 3 | 48:11 | RD | 15 km | Cuyahoga Falls OH/USA | AAU Junior Championships | |||
| 07 Mar 1971 | 1 | 30:46 | RD | 6 mi | Parkersburg WV/USA | n/a | |||
| 21 Feb 1971 | 1 | 20:01 | RD | 4 mi | Parkersburg WV/USA | n/a | |||
| 28 Nov 1970 | 31 | 31:45 | XC | 10 km | Chicago IL/USA | AAU Crosscountry Championships | |||
| 25 Nov 1970 | 10 | 29:46 | XC | 6 mi | University Park PA/USA | USTFF Crosscountry Championships | |||
| 25 Oct 1970 | 1 | 13:55.8 | RD | 3 mi | Parkersburg WV/USA | n/a | |||
| 11 Oct 1970 | 2 | 2:33:24 | a | RD | Marathon | Canton OH/USA | Amoco | ||
| 12 Jul 1970 | 2 | 20:04 | RD | 4 mi | Akron OH/USA | n/a | |||
| 28 Oct 1967 | 1 | 25:25.9 | XC | 8.369 km | Williamsburg VA/USA | NCAA District 3 Championship | |||
| 20 Oct 1967 | 1 | 21:34.5 | XC | 6.759 km | n/a USA | West Virginia vs Pittsburgh | |||
| 07 Oct 1967 | 1 | 25:30 | XC | 7.886 km | n/a USA | Penn State vs West Virginia | |||
| 30 Sep 1967 | 3 | 25:56 | XC | 7.886 km | n/a USA | Miami University vs Kent State vs West Virginia | |||
| 23 Sep 1967 | 1 | 25:13.6 | XC | 5 mi | n/a USA | Navy vs West Virginia | |||
| 13 May 1967 | 1 | 14:16.1 | OT | 3 mi | Fort Eustis VA/USA | Southern Conference Championships | |||
| 21 Nov 1966 | 26 | 31:09 | XC | 6 mi | Lawrence KS/USA | NCAA Crosscountry Championship |
Database updated with data from 27 Jun 2021 19:47:37.
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