29 Jan 2009 PTCRC HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE BOB DALTON
Bob Dalton joined the club in 1995. He served as Secretary from 1998-1999, Administrative Vice President for three years from 2000-2002, and again for two more years from 2004-2005. He then served as club President from 2006-2008, the only member to serve in that position for three years. He has served as club officer for a total of ten years.
Bob was presented the “Extra Mile Award” in 2003 and the RRCA Volunteer Award Certificate in 2004 for his well over 2,000 hours of service to the club. He was the first place overall winner of the club Grand Prix in 1996, 2000, 2006, and 2008.
Bob has also coached the Fort McPherson Army Ten-Miler Team for the previous 13 years. During that time, they have won their division at America’s largest ten-miler race for ten years and placed second the other three years. They have won the military team division at the Army Hooah 10K race the last four years and have won their division at the annual Kaiser Permanente 5K Corporate Challenge eight out of the last 11 years and taken second the other three years.
He is a member of the Atlanta Track Club Men’s Master Competitive Team and has helped lead teams to victory at the Hood to Coast 200 Mile Relay (the largest relay race in the world), the inaugural Great Midwestern 200 Mile Relay, and numerous Ekiden relay races. Bob holds Georgia state age group records in the 12K, 15K, and formerly the Half Marathon.
He has also served as Race Director every year for the annual New Hope Harvest Classic 5K Run/Walk his church has conducted since its inception in 2001. The event donates the profits to orphaned and abused children in overseas missions and has raised over $40,000 in the last two years alone.