HONOLULU - The Honolulu Marathon Hall of Fame will induct 1972 Olympic Marathon gold medalist Frank Shorter into its hall of fame on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008.
The induction ceremony will take place at 10:00am in public at the Honolulu Marathon Expo at the Hawaii Convention Center.
Shorter, 61, who also won the 1976 Olympic Marathon silver medal, has run the Honolulu Marathon 19 times but never won it. The Boulder, Colo. resident said he simply ran to be part of one of the world's most scenic endurance races.
In a 1997 story in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Shorter described the Honolulu Marathon's unique predawn start this way: "The start is always surreal. There is no other feeling like it at the start of a marathon - all these thousands of people descending upon a darkened ghost town, rustling around in their foil blankets. It's other-worldly."
Shorter has also been a commentator for the Honolulu Marathon on TV and radio many times as well as a key participant in the Legends of Running autograph sessions offered at the annual race expo.
"Frank's been coming ever since the '70s, when he was one of the top runners in the world," Honolulu Marathon president Jim Barahal said in a Honolulu Star-Bulletin story on Monday. "He's been a great advocate of this event."
For information on the race, go to: HonoluluMarathon.org.
Ryan Lamppa, Running USA Media Director
(805) 696-6232; Fax = (805) 659-0016
Ryan@RunningUSA.org
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