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As race consultant, he offered free consulting services to new races for 25 years. John Beishline served with and operated Western New York Finish Line Services for more than 30 years and provided timing for 85+ races per year. When I first approached a former sports editor of The News about writing a running column, he looked at me and laughed, “But what would you write about the second week?” When he was replaced, Howard Smith saw the merit and 21 years later, it was I who got the last laugh. One day I was interviewing line workers at the Trico plant in Matamoros, Mexico, when a guy said, “Hey you’re the running columnist!” Turns out he was a management guy from the Buffalo plant. I took great pride in turning out weekly columns, and was often puzzled why people never knew that my day job was being a reporter for The Buffalo News. I also got a bird’s eye view of the greatest race finish ever, Peter Pfitzinger outlegging Alberto Salazar. In the 1984 trials, the biggest story of the day was nearly the entire press corps almost getting thrown off the back of the truck when the rails collapsed. I covered two Olympic Marathon trials from the back of a rickety truck. The year I ignored him in the Turkey Trot forecasts, he came blazing first across the finish line and shouted something along the lines of “Take that, Mike Beebe.” I took it. I’ll also take credit for reviving fellow Hall of Famer Bob Carroll’s running career. It gets poked at a lot, but before that, there was no way to recognize local runners’ accomplishments once they left school. And now I’m a better bicyclist than I ever was a runner.Īs a running columnist, I’m proudest of starting the Buffalo News Runner of the Year series. I could break the six-minute mile pace occasionally in the 5K, I broke 70 minutes for the Flint 10-miler, and could sometimes win an age group award when the better runners were off elsewhere.Īs a runner, I was a better rower, first for the Syracuse University varsity while in college, then as a master’s rower at West Side Rowing Club. I always insisted the last one was indeed the last one. I ran five marathons: Skylon, NYC, Chicago, Buffalo Marathon (my only DNF, I bonked trying yet again to break three hours), and the Buffalo Niagara Marathon. Nor would I have had the chance to run with Grete Waitz, Bill Rodgers, Mark Finucane, and a lot of other runners who would have left me in the dust had I not been writing about them.Īs anyone knows who saw me run, I am a runner in a linebacker’s body. Thank God for first the typewriter, and then the computer, or I never would have made it into the Western New York Running Hall of Fame. It’s an impressive résumé – one of a Hall of Famer. She started a summer track program in 2016, and that was a popular addition to the running calendar. If you need someone to stage an event, Judy is a good person to call.
From there she moved on to become an assistant coach in cross country and track at Daemen. She served as the cross-country coach at Medaille from 2011 to 2015, and was coach of the year in her conference in 2011. She also has won several age-group honors over the years.īut Judy also shared her skills with others. More than a decade after graduation, Judy was The Buffalo News’ Female Runner of the Year in 2001.
Judy was an All-American in 10 different categories during her days in Cortland.Īfter graduation, she kept running – and was still very good at it. She was part of a couple of national champions in cross country in 19. Judy was part of a couple of national champion teams in cross country, and set school records in the 5-kilometer and 10-kilometer run. She took part in three sports at Cortland – cross country, track and swimming. Judy was a superb runner for several years. Is there anything Judy Arlington hasn’t done in running?
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