Saturday

morning, the Atlanta Track Club organized the inaugural

Peaches and Pines 8K, and following the race, runners

could attend a yoga session to stretch out their stiff

muscles.

The

entertainment-packed weekend ended with a sold-out awards

banquet with keynote speaker Katherine Switzer, who also

was announced as the 1999 RRCA/NYRRC Fred Lebow Women's

Running Award recipient.

Jim

Stasaitis, of the Utica Road Runners Club, was another

winner at the banquet, when Switzer drew his raffle

ticket for a Steve Prefontaine leather bomber jacket, a

prop used in the movie "Pre." Stasaitis plans

to donate the jacket to the Prefontaine Memorial

scheduled to open at the National Distance Running Hall

of Fame in Utica, N.Y., this fall.

The

convention marked the last hoorah for President Don

Kardong as he passed the torch to Vice President Freedi

Carlip. Beverly Coville, RRCA Southern regional director,

will fill Carlip's spot as vice president and Scott

Christopher will succeed her.

The

Albuquerque Road Runners will host the 44th annual RRCA

Convention May 2-6, 2001 in Albuquerque, N.M.