GWTC Board Member Profile  
   
Name Mark Priddy  
   
Position with GWTC Membership Chair / School Grant Coordinator  
   
All Time Favorite Race The Kentucky Derby miniMarathon  
   
Favorite Annual Event Pine Run at Tall Timbers 20K, The Flash 12K, Seaside Half Marathon  
   
Favorite Running Route or Trail The St. Marks Bike Trail, The St. Marks Wildlife Refuge, and the 19 mile Timpoochee Trail  
   
Personal Hero I have no Personal Heroes, but I DO have people I admire:

Joan Benoit Samuelson (genuinely nice and very gracious in person)
Stan Musial (gifted athlete, and has a lot of class)
Muhammad Ali (controversial, outspoken, and, I believe the most Outstanding Athlete of our generation)		  
   
Why I run I run mainly because I like the way I feel AFTER I run…refreshed, rejuvenated, and energized.
   
Inspirational Quotation

Steve Prefontaine: "A man can fail many times, but he is not a failure until he begins to blame someone else."

  
For Life: “Don’t tell God you have big problem, tell your problem that you have a big God.”
   
Brief Running History

Started “jogging” on my 30th birthday. 
Completed 36 Marathons and dozens of shorter distance races.
I was the only American to compete in the 2005 Marabana, the Havana (Cuba) Marathon. Since I could not drink the local water, which was ladled from 55 gallon drums, I survived (barely) by eating the oranges provided at each aid table.