I made a last minute decision to attend the 40th anniversary celebration/reunion of the first Women’s Olympic Marathon Trials, which was held May 12th, 1984. A good number of the 230+ women who finished the race, including Trials winner and the first woman to win the marathon at the olympics, joanbenoitsamuelson made the trip to Olympia. From a personal perspective, this event was significant in my professional career, as most everything that I’ve done in sports media would never have happened if it weren’t for the five months I worked as the statistician, bio writer, researcher for the Olympia LOC, based in the Seattle office. This job opened the door into sports television, journalism, photography, and much, much more. I’ll always be grateful to Trials communications director Jeanne McKnight for taking me in as a young dude who graduated from the University of Washington & was let go from an advertising agency for allowing me to flourish and find my passion for telling the story...