Twin City Track Club presents
2010 Winter Seminar
Saturday, February 20th
with Dick Beardsley

February 20th, 6:30 PM, Children's Museum

or mail a check to TCTC Attn: TCTC Winter Seminar, PO Box 692, Winston-Salem, NC 27102. $20 for members/$25 for non-members before 2/18, $30 for members/$35 for non-members after 2/18 or at the door.  Advance registration is strongly recommended as seating is limited to 125 people and we cannot guarantee meals to those who do not pre-register. 

Dick will also have copies of his two books; Staying the Course: A Runner's Toughest Race and Duel in the Sun: The Story of Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and America's Greatest Marathon available for purchase for $20 each.  Details about the books can be found the Dick Beardley Foundation web site.

We’ll get started at 6:30 PM with a social hour and have a sit-down dinner at 7:30 PM with our local speakers and headliner speaker to follow at 8:00 PM. Make plans now to join us for a fun and informative evening with your fellow runners.

Our speaker this year is Dick Beardsley.  Dick is the Two-time champion of Grandma's Marathon; 1981 & 1982. He holds the course record (2:09:37) for the 1981 Grandma's Marathon.  Dick finished second to Alberto Salazar in the "The Duel in the Sun" at the Boston Marathon in 1982 (2:08:53).  He is a Guinness Book of World Record holder as the only man to have ever run 13 consecutive personal bests in the marathon.  Dick was inducted into the The Running Event Hall of Fame in 2009.  Dick is best known for his incredible race in the 1982 Boston Marathon. That race, on a very hot day, was dubbed the "Duel in the Sun" as he battled world record holder Alberto Salazar down to the finish line. Both broke the American record: Salazar won in a record time of 2:08:51, Beardsley’s time was 2:08:53! He was at the height of his professional running career.  Then tragedy struck in November 1989. While using an auger to lift corn into a bin on his Minnesota farm, Dick became entangled in the machine; it began to literally tear him apart. Not expected to live or walk—much less ever run again—he managed to survive.  But that was just the first of a series of events that would forever change his life. During the next few years, Dick was involved in a severe car accident, later he was hit by a truck while running, later still, he rolled his vehicle in a snowstorm, and finally while hiking one day, the ground gave out and he fell off a cliff! Each time he ended up in the hospital and had multiple surgeries to try and put him back together.  Due to all the large amount of pain medication he was taking, he became addicted—and that's when his life really started to spiral out of control. It has been a long and difficult road back, but Dick has been celebrating every day of his sobriety since February 12, 1997.