Some Few Facts
Scott Douglas (aka me) is a freelance writer and editor specializing in running, fitness and health. To learn more, see:
Brief Professional Sketch
I'm a former editor of Running Times and co-author of four books on running. These days, I write most frequently for Runner's World, Weekly Reader, the New York Road Runners, Uta Pippig and KIMbia. I've been an opinion columnist for Running Times and Marathon and Beyond, and have been published in the Washington Post, Slate, Men's Fitness and Continental Airlines' in-flight magazine, among others.Although my specialties are running, fitness and health, please don't typecast me. I've had full-time editorial positions with the National Recreation and Park Association, the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging and the American Association of Blood Banks, and I've done substantive freelance editing for the International Association of Fire Chiefs and the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America.
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Brief Biographical Sketch
I live in South Portland, Maine, with my wife, photographer Stacey Cramp, and our dog and two cats. We moved here from the Washington, D.C. area at the end of 2003. I grew up in Reisterstown, Maryland, where I graduated from Franklin High School in 1982. I got my B.A. in religion from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and my M.A. in church history and theology from the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In 1988, I spent a whole eight weeks in a Ph.D. program at George Washington University before deciding I didn't want to be in school for another six years and in debt for another sixty. I don't go to church.I'm fortunate to be able to apply my writing and editing skills to topics I care about. I started running in 1979, and estimate that my odometer passed the 80,000-mile mark at some point in 2005. I was pretty good there for a little while—30:48 for 10K, 51:01 for 10 miles, 1:08:40 for a half marathon—but have always run primarily because I like it and to keep from going on shooting sprees. I've never run a good marathon, owing to too much vertical motion in my stride, a ridiculously high sweat rate and general wimpiness.
Fun Facts
June 1964-February 1979: Not much happens.
March 1979: I start running.
March 1980: A friend and I get kicked out of an all-you-can-eat Italian place. The owner tells us, "Enough is enough, and you've had too much."
February 1981: The same friend and I tie for first in a taco-eating contest. We stop at 34 tacos each because the organizers run out of ingredients.
May 1981: I'm part of a team that breaks the world record for the 100-man, 100-mile relay. (It's since been broken.)
November 1981: In one weekend, I wait in line for an hour to get Bill Rodgers' autograph, run my first marathon in 2:49:55 and learn I've gotten into William and Mary on early acceptance. It was a good weekend.
November 1981-September 1996: Not much happens.
October 1996: I meet Stacey.
October 1997: I marry Stacey, and sit in on drums for two songs with Saturnine at our wedding. It was a good weekend.
November 2000: I run the 185-mile C&O Canal in a week to raise money for the RRCA's Roads Scholar program.
November 2003: An indie-rock benefit CD I produce to benefit Bread for the City is released. I sit in on drums for one song with The Mendoza Line at the CD release party. It was a good weekend.
December 2003: Stacey and I move to Maine with no work lined up.
December 2004: While in Kenya, I add on after a run with sub-13:00 5Kers Isaac Songok and Augustine Choge to get in a better workout.
June 2006: I write this sentence.
