Ed Ayres
Ed Ayres has been running competitively forfifty-fiveconsecutive years, and he enjoys it as much now as he did when he joined his high school cross-country team in 1956. Ayres placed 3rd in the first New York Marathon in 1970, and he is the only runner ofthat race still competing today.Having participatedin the early growth of American interest inroadrunning, trail-running, and marathons,he also became one of the pioneers of ultrarunning.He placed third in the US 50 Milechampionship in 1976...
