Runner Spotlight – Athens Road Runners

Runner Spotlight: Rhia Kilpatrick

ByAthens Road Runners 03/17/202304/11/2023

Maybe it’s her SoCal background, but Rhia Kilpatrick uniquely combines high-energy enthusiasm for workouts and racing with borderline indifference to gear, technology, and the latest training insights. She even claims to not have known about age grading until this February, when Dave Lee pointed out that her 18:52.8 at Spartan 5K was an 82.2 percent…

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Runner Spotlight: Juan Acevedo

ByJohn Kissane 02/17/202302/24/2023

Juan Acevedo: Getting Fast and Faster If there was a clear, slam dunk, no-doubt-about-it honoree at last month’s ARR Annual Meeting, it had to be Juan Acevedo, recipient of the club’s Great Strides Award for 2022. Plenty of other ARR members progressed impressively over the past year, but Juan was way out in front. Born in El Salvador,…