I found this interesting article about Atlanta’s own Peachtree Road Race. The article is from the ajc.com.
Peachtree race considered running in different directions
By Ken Sugiura
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
As the AJC Peachtree Road Race grew in size, Tim Singleton had a solution for the overcrowded start area: Start some runners on Roswell Road, and some on Peachtree Road, and have them meet at the intersection.
Said Singleton, the Peachtree's founder, "I think the way they do it now is really better."
Since its inception in 1970, the race has evolved almost annually to where the field has expanded, the course has been adjusted and different features have been added.
"I was always wondering, always trying to see what I wasn't seeing," said Julia Emmons, former race director who ran in the Peachtree for 22 years. "My job was to ponder."
Not all of Singleton or Emmons' ponderings, one of which was running the race from Midtown to Buckhead, made it to race day, perhaps for the better.
Read on here.
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