![]() So, I have been here for just shy of 4 years now.Īwesome. Then, in 2018, I got hired by the Air Force Marathon in May of 2018 when Rob retired. Then, I moved back to Ohio in 2017 to be with my, then, fiance and, now, wife who, as you mentioned, is having a baby this week, hopefully. So for them, I did a lot of the event operations, and I did that for a few years. I was able to separate from the Air Force and got a job working out west in 2014 with Mike Bohn at Spectrum Sports, who managed a lot of events out in Southern California - one of our big clients was runDisney and a lot of our races happened on Catalina Island. That, kind of, spurred my love of directing events. ![]() Through that program at Xavier University, I met Iris Simpson-Bush from the Flying Pig Marathon, Darris Blackford from the Columbus marathon, and Rob Aguiar, the former director of the Air Force Marathon. I continued to run at the Air Force Academy, graduated, got assigned to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, served a few years here as a contracting officer, and then decided to earn a Master's in sports administration. So, I did my first marathon when I was 17 years old at the United States Marine Corps Marathon. While I was there, I ran on our marathon team. Before we go into all that, why don't you tell our listeners a little bit about yourself, your background, your military career, your running career, and how the two, sort of, like, came together? ![]() So, do we have an amazing topic to talk about today? We're gonna be talking about the inaugural space for T-Minus 10-Miler, which is a brand new race that will, hopefully, put Space Force on the racing map - you're going to tell us all about that. So, it's a great opportunity to have you on before that very fortunate occasion - I really appreciate your time. Plus, you have a baby on the way which is gonna make you a whole lot busier. By the way, you're a very, very busy man with all these marathons you're putting on for the government. Racecheck can help you collect and showcase your participant reviews on your race website, helping you more easily convert website visitors into paying participants, with the help of their Racecheck Review Box. More than 26,000 in-person, virtual, and hybrid events use RunSignup's free and integrated solution to save time, grow their events, and raise more. RunSignup are the leading all-in-one technology solution for endurance and fundraising events. Many thanks to our podcast sponsors, RunSignup and Racecheck, for supporting our efforts to provide great, free content to the race director community: What to expect from the inaugural race (hint: more than rockets and alligators, although there's definitely plenty of those!).Mapping out a race course around historic Cape Canaveral.Conceiving and launching the Space Force T-Minus 10-Miler.The birth and mission of the US Space Force.The challenges of putting on a race inside the US government/military.NAFIs and the legal structure of military races.Military races: how it all begun with the Marine Corps Marathon.So get ready for some military race history, rockets, alligators, more rockets, and some very interesting insights into working as a race director within the US government. The aptly named Space Force T-Minus 10-Miler is set to take place this December 10th at historic Cape Canaveral, and we’re going to be hearing all about it from the event’s own race director Brandon Hough in today’s star-spangled bonus episode. Well, there’s a new race in town for 2022, set to celebrate the youngest of all military branches: the Space Force. What do the Marine Corps Marathon, Air Force Marathon and Army Ten Miler all have in common? They are, of course, amazing races put on to celebrate branches of the US Military that attract tens of thousands of participants every year.
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