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Running: Officer´s regimen yields huge weight loss
By JOE SHAFRAN, For The Capital
There are still some people in America who would like to see a police officer walking a beat in their neighborhood. The practice seemed to have gone out of style a half century ago. In some towns, there are bike and scooter patrols, but no one seemed to be walking a beat anymore. That is, until a few months ago, where in at least one neighborhood in Anne Arundel County we have the beat patrol with a twist. Rather than walking the beat, there is a police officer running the beat, which you’ll have to admit, allows him to cover a greater distance. This is an officer who is getting in his morning run, but at the same time is keeping an eye on the neighborhood. And this cop is no rookie. This is a Deputy Chief of the County Police Emerson C. Davis, a 28 year veteran who runs the beat in the Bay Hills area of the Broadneck Peninsula. No matter what the weather, he’s out there in his reflective vest about 5:30 in the morning doing what some people say looks like an 8 minute mile and is there for an hour and a half at least. And typical of someone who takes his running seriously, Chief Davis has taken on a new persona, having lost about 40 pounds in the past six months. He says he was mortified last spring when they measured him for a new uniform and he happened to glance down at the numbers on the tape measure around his waist. This, by the way, is an educated chief. Davis is a graduate of the F.B.I. National Academy and has a Masters Degree in Applied Behavioral Science from Johns Hopkins University. Having a choice of beats, he says he will stay around Bay Hills for the foreseeable future.
On a another running subject, Al Stott the local professor of running who, with some graduate assistants, teaches the Annapolis Strider course for race directors. may not say it in these words, but in his ongoing lectures. he intimates that no matter how finely tuned a race is, expect the unexpected and how true that has been in the last couple of years .Near Baltimore,at a well attended race, a hurricane-weakened 200-year-old 90-foot tree, 4 feet in diameter, fell across the course with no clear way around it. No one was hurt .On another occasion, at or near Frederick a couple of years ago a three alarm building fire along the running route required an unplanned, unmarked smoky detour. Of more recent vintage, in early October in Washington D.C., a security threat caused a detour in the annual Army ten miler and made it an 11 miler. and two Sunday’s ago also in Washington , a lot of runners and spectators were delayed in getting to the the 8 a.m. start of the Marine Marathon and 8K in Arlington, Virginia, when a incident shut down the subway line that was being used by many of the 30,000 registrants. Ironically, the afternoon before the race, Rick Nealis , the director, told us at the D.C. Armory, where they had the the packet pickup and exposition, that all systems, including plans B,C, D and E were go. And , at the New York Marathon, this past Sunday, all went very well, except at the finish line where the two front runners seem to have tripped over themselves .
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A TV viewing reminder Ted Poulos will be one of my guests on Let’s Shape Up, Saturday evening at 7:30 on Comcast Cable, Ch. 99 in Anne Arundel County ( and in Annapolis(city) at at date to be announced, it will be on channel in Annapolis(city) at a date to be announced) : Poulos recently ran his 4,000th race, a thousand of which he says he has won. The other guest is fitness Instructor Mat Olenick, demonstrating the use of the stability(fitness) ball.
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At the COLD TURKEY 10K coming up Sunday Nov.20th you can run simultaneously with a military unit stationed in East Africa. CDR Maureen Kennedy, currently deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, is stationed for the next few months in Djibouti, Africa and with the guidance of Ron Bowman of the Annapolis Striders, an arrangement has been made with members of her Command to participate - in absentia - in some of the Strider races. The Cold Turkey will be the first one that will give service personnel a "connection to the homeland" by running in an Annapolis Strider´s AFRICAN-COLD TURKEY 10K. They will run the same day, same distance, will have their own awards ceremony, and receive the same t-shirt as those who run from the South River high school complex. Be in touch with Bowman on the Strider’s web site where you can also register and avoid the usual lines on race day.
Race Results:
First ten runners at the Harbour School 5 K
Tim O’neil 21:31,William Rush . 21:38 Chuck Dunbar 21:54 Tom Igler ,.22:15 Jenna Nugent. 24:31, Dennis Nugent 24:39, Richard Aulbach, 26:34 ,Angela Chadwick, 26:59, Melinda Berge, 27:35 ,Christina Patrick, 28:30
Running Calendar:
Sat Nov. 12 Richmond Marathon and 8K 804-673-RACE
Sun. Nov. 13 Marley Station Mall, Pasadena . 8 A.M. Jingle Bell Run/Walk. Benefits the Arthritis Foundation. Choice of 5K “Fun Run-Walk Many prizes. At the 2004 event, there were nearly 400 participants with $26,000 being raised for arthritis- related research and educational programs. Call 410-544-5433.
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