Paul C. Clerici
-writer, speaker, runner, race director
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SPEAKER, MEDIA, RACE DIRECTOR
Speaker - delivers talks at libraries, historical societies, bookstores, track clubs, senior residences, race expos, meetings.
TV guest - NECN (New England Cable News), international broadcaster Voice of America, The History Channel's "Sports History This Week," WCVB-TV5's "Chronicle," Boston25 TV News, cable stations.
Radio guest - NPR (National Public Radio), local and city stations.
Featured in - The Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, Boston Marathon Program, Cape Cod Times, Falmouth Magazine.
Historian reference in National Museum of the American Indian magazine, "When Running Made History" book by Roger Robinson.
Documentary film credit - archival footage and/or assistance in Boston: The Documentary (2017), Free to Run (2016).
Race director - Camy 5K Run & David 5K Walk, Walpole, Mass.
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AUTHOR, WRITER
Bestselling author, journalist, writer, photographer, and award-winning former newspaper editor and sports editor.
BOOKS - Oregon Running Legend Steve Prefontaine: In the Footsteps of the U.S. Olympic Athlete, Activist, and Icon (The History Press), authorized bio Born to Coach: The Story of Bill Squires, the Legendary Coach of the Greatest Generation of American Distance Runners (Meyer + Meyer Sport Publisher), Images of Modern America: The Boston Marathon (THP), A History of the Falmouth Road Race: Running Cape Cod (THP), Boston Marathon History by the Mile (THP), Chinese-language translated Journey of the Boston Marathon (Cheers Publishing, China), History of the Greater Boston Track Club (THP).
RUNNER, MARATHONER
Competes in nearly every running distance from the mile to the marathon - including two triathlons - and has won numerous Clydesdale and age-group category runner awards.
U.S. MARATHONS - Boston (23 times); Cape Cod; Chicago; Flying Pig (Ohio); Hartford; Honolulu; Lake Placid; Marine Corps (D.C.); New York City; Philadelphia; Portland (Oregon); San Francisco; Sugarloaf (Maine); inaugural Walt Disney World Marathon (Florida); Walt Disney World Goofy's Race and a Half Challenge (half-marathon and marathon in two consecutive days).
NON-U.S. MARATHONS: Berlin (week of East/West Germany reunification); Dublin (Ireland); Montreal (Canada); Niagara Falls International (NY-Canada) twice; World Clydesdale Championship at Kingston Running Festival (Kingston upon Thames, England).
PERSONAL BEST - 3:41:04 (Montreal). PERSONAL SLOWEST - 7:16:42 (2012 Boston when 91 degrees in Wellesley).