Mark Richtman and Jeff Salzman passed away this month in California. The race may not always be to the swift, but these two swift runners left an indelible mark on the Running Community.
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Mark
Richtman, Novato CA 64
Missing
and presumed drowned, on a solo kayak trip to Tomales Bay, by the Point Reyes National
Seashore, in early June.
Raceography. Primarily an Ultra Runner, Richtman
occasionally joined his friend, Brian Pilcher, running for the Tamalpa
Runners at the USATF Club XC Championships.
2007 USATF Masters Championship Races [M50+] at Club XC—West
Chester OH
#2 runner for Tamalpa--# 15 overall in Team 50+
competition—Team took 2nd place
2008 USATF Masters Championship Races [M50+] at Club XC –
Spokane WA
#2 runner for Tamalpa Runners Inc--# 16 Overall in Team 50+
competition—Team took 3rd place
2016 USATF Masters Championship Races [M60+] at Club XC
–Tallahassee FL
#2 runner for Tamalpa Runners Inc--#6 0verall in Team 60+ competition
(missed the individual podium by 4 seconds)—Team took 2nd place
From
the Dipsea Trail Race 2019 Summary:
“Pilcher
dedicated his winning effort to Mark Richtman, a fellow elite runner from the
Tamalpa Club, who is missing and presumed drown (sic) following a solo kayak
trip to Tomales Bay earlier in June. Numerous runners in the field of 1,500
wrote “Run 4 Mark” and “Long Live Mark” to honor the seven-time Dipsea Black
Shirt winner.”
Read
an appreciation of Mark Richtman at:
Jeff
Salzman, Irvine, CA 67
Died of a
stroke on June 17, 2019.
Obituary:
Jeff Salzman
ran for the Cal Coast Track Club 60+ team, participating in both Cross Country
and Road National Championship events. I did not know him, but we had briefly
met at least once. In reviewing his races, I see now that we occasionally ran
in the same Championship race, and sometimes finished within a half-minute or
so of one another.
Raceography. The oldest race listed on Athlinks
for Salzman is the 1983 NYC Marathon, when he was 32; he ran 3:00:59. The first
USATF national championship race I can find is the 2014 USATF Masters 8K
Championship in Brea CA, where he teamed up with Dale Campbell, Bill ‘Coach’
Sumner, and Bert Sandoval to claim 2nd place in the 60+
division for the Cal Coast Track Club. Salzman was 2nd runner for
the team in 32:36. At age 64 he ran for Cal Coast ‘B’ in the Club XC
Championships in San Francisco, helping Paul Cook, Perry Forrester,
and Anthony Reynoso to a 14th place finish out of 36 Teams.
In 2016, he teamed up with Sumner, John Combs, Cook, and Charles
Sanchez, to take 2nd place M60+ for the Cal Coast ‘B’ squad at
the 8K Masters Championships in Brea. A versatile runner in terms of distance,
Salzman teamed up with Forrester, John Holcomb, and Keith Witthauer,
to take first place, M60+, at the 2016 USATF Masters Half Marathon Championship
in San Diego. In October 2017, he ran a 1:09:05 15 K to help Cal Coast, along
with Forrester, Holcomb and Sumner, to a 4th place finish in the
National Masters 15 Km Championship at Tulsa. A month and a half later, he,
Holcomb, Sumner, and Witthauer took 6th out of 14 teams at Club XC.
In 2018 he competed for Cal Coast in both the USATF Cross Country Championship
in Tallahassee FL and at the Club Cross Country Championship at Spokane WA.
Witthauer and he teamed up with Brian Nelson to take 4th at
Tallahassee and Salzman jumped in with Combs and Sumner, to help Cal Coast
finish 16th at Club XC. That is the final race result listed on his
Athlinks profile; it is fitting that it would be for the team he helped to
sustain.
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