Meet Vicki Bentley-Condit. Vicki started running marathons at the age of 46 in 2003. Do the math!

She is a biological anthropologist and a college professor at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. Her research has been on mother-infant relationships in baboons and baboon nutrition, conducted in Kenya. She is semi-retired but still actively teaching.

Her first race was the Peachtree 10k in the mid-90's while she was finishing grad school at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Her first distance race was a half marathon in Des Moines, IA in 2003. Since then, she has completed over 108 marathons with 50 miles being the longest distance. She completed her first round of the 50 states in Hawaii in 2017 and finished the 50 States Sub-4 (a marathon in under 4 hrs in each state) in January of 2019 at age 61 in Mobile, AL. Vicki was the 24th female to complete the 50<4. She is also a Boston 50 Marathon Club 5-Star Finisher . This means she ran a Boston qualifying marathon in all 50 states. For Vicki, age is not a deterrent to be limitless!

CONNECT WITH VICKI:

BENTLEYC@grinnell.edu

Tes Sobomehin Marshall is a Race Director and Atlanta running community leader. Tes has been organizing group runs, training teams and road races since 2011 through runningnerds, LLC. An Indiana native and graduate of University of Virginia, she has been in Atlanta since 2010 and currently resides in Southwest Atlanta in the Cascade neighborhood with her husband and daughter.

Runningnerds offers a variety of road race experiences and distances and a weekly run group for all paces. Partnering with corporate, charity and community organizations since 2011, runningnerds has produced and directed over 200 races, large group runs, and training seasons.

Runningnerds, LLC continues to strive to be an excellent social forum, resource and service to the contemporary running community.

Dr. Kimberly Melvan is a board-certified physical therapist with more than 12 years experience in sports medicine. She specializes in running-related injury prevention and treatment, video gait analysis, and run coaching.

Dr. Melvan developed an interest in amateur running after playing collegiate basketball; running her first half marathon during her graduate studies. After earning her doctorate in physical therapy, she moved to a reviving New Orleans, Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina. Thriving in the city’s rebirth, she developed an active outpatient physical therapy practice and completed her strength and conditioning certification. Driven by the allure of a larger healthcare network, Dr. Melvan moved to Atlanta to join Emory Healthcare, the largest healthcare provider in Georgia. In less than two years, she achieved the role of outpatient clinic manager, the first woman and youngest individual to hold this position at Emory. With the help of her leadership, she developed one of the lowest performing clinics into a top earning physical therapy clinic in less than 5 years time. During her time at Emory, she actively engaged in volunteerism at local at-risk women’s shelters, participated in weekly running groups, and supported high school football players on the sideline. Moreover, she earned her board certification as a sports certified specialist (SCS), founded Emory Healthcare’s first running clinic, earned certifications as a kinesiotape practitioner and assisted soft tissue mobilization provider. It was also in Atlanta, that Dr. Melvan and her husband began growing their family, welcoming their first son. Juist prior to the Covid pandemic, Dr. Melvan and family relocated to Fort Lauderdale, where a second son was soon born. As a young mother, Dr. Melvan has recently began focusing on developing her own practice, looking to assist both amateur and professional runners alike prepare for and enjoy an active running lifestyle.