Where are they now? Richard Kimball

My first Track & Field News, grabbed from the old Ryans Sports Shop in San Jose featured the Cal State prep meet of 1974. In a picture etched in my brain is Rich Kimball and Andy Clifford digging in for the final, final bit of energy in a mile won in just about 4:06. Kimball won the mile and two that year and his two mile was in 8:44 range. Observant reader Jeff Shaver, a graduate of San Jose State, found the following in the Spartan newsletter:

Kimball Named Nevada County’s Undersheriff
Richard Kimball, ’78 Criminal Justice, new undersheriff of Nevada County, Calif., joined the county’s Sheriff’s Department in 2002 as a deputy. He was promoted to sergeant in 2004 and to jail lieutenant in 2007. He began his career in law enforcement as an officer in the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Department. In 1974, he won the World Cross Country Meet in Milan, Italy–the first American to win the race–and for that achievement scored a cover on Runner’s World magazine.

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Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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