Mark Covert

Mark Covert in 2011

Mark Covert (born November 17, 1950) is an American runner. He is believed to maintain the second-longest streak of running every day in the world. Covert's running streak began on July 23, 1968, and continues to the present. His is the longest streak recorded by the United States Running Streak Association, followed closely by Jon Sutherland, who began less than a year after Covert.^[1] However, British runner Ron Hill is believed to have the longest continuous streak.^[2]

Covert has also run in competition, earning seventh place with a time of 2:23:35 in the 1972 US Olympic marathon trials. During those trials, Covert (then a runner for Fullerton State College) was the only surviving member of a pack of eight lesser-known runners to try to follow the blistering pace of Kenny Moore and eventual gold-medalist Frank Shorter, all the others failed to finish the race.^[3] Also while at Fullerton, he won the 1970 Division II NCAA Men's Cross Country Championship. His personal best in the mile is 4:09 minutes, and he has run over 130,000 miles in total.^[4]

Covert is currently in his 17th year as Head Cross Country and Track and Field Coach at Antelope Valley College in Lancaster, California.^[5]

References

1. ^ "Official U.S.A. Active Running Streak List". United States Running Streak Association. 2011-08-11. http://runeveryday.com/lists/USRSA-Active-List.html. Retrieved 2011-08-11. 
2. ^ Baxter, Kevin (1995-04-04). "You might say Mark Covert likes to run. He's averaged 11 miles every day since 1968--just because he can.". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1995-04-04/news/ls-50908_1_mark-covert. Retrieved 2010-08-01. 
3. ^ http://www.usatf.org/statistics/champions/OlympicTrials/HistoryOfTheOlympicTrials.pdf
4. ^ Taylor, Chris (2007-03-09). "True Obsession: 14,071 Days...and Counting". Runner's World. 
5. ^ http://gomarauders.avc.edu/CoachesPages/MarkCovert.htm

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