Course Record Holder

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If you set the Griffith Park Bellarmine course record 22 years ago, do you stop running?  No, if you’re Richard Erbes, you still get out of bed at 6:00 a.m. and run 15 miles.

             If you set the course record for girls eight years ago, you awake at 5:00 a.m. and run 19 miles.  That’s what Natalie Stein does.  She’s pointing for the Detroit Marathon on October 19, with the aim of lowering her 2:52 PR.

             If it’s wintertime at Michigan State University and it snows overnight, Natalie tries to avoid the icy patches.  Then she heads into the academic world and pursuit of a Ph.D. in nutrition.  Since last year, she changed her thesis to the effects of gastric bypass surgery on hunger.

             For Richard, it’s a day full of family and software engineering.  With wife Stella they have two sons, Joshua, 12, and Jacob, 8, and their many activities.  Stella teaches at Pepperdine and had a book published in December 2007, “What Teachers Should Know but Textbooks Don’t Show.”

             Richard competes in trail races and half marathons.  The family lives in Ventura County.