{"id":179,"date":"2008-09-18T03:27:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T11:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theathleteslawyer.com\/uncategorized\/great-race-directors-make-great-races-happen\/"},"modified":"2008-09-18T03:27:07","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T11:27:07","slug":"great-race-directors-make-great-races-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/2008\/09\/18\/great-race-directors-make-great-races-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Race Directors Make Great Races Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theathleteslawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sept._2008_Sports\/DSCN0998.JPG\" alt=\"Set Up Events Race Director Greg Welch at the Big Lick Smith Mountain Lake State Park Olympic Distance Triathlon\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" width=\"300\" \/>While I have celebrated athletes and coaches, I do not want to overlook the people who put it all together for the athletes, spectators and sponsors.  The Race Directors make it all possible.  Brian Crow, Tom Cook, Chandra Richardson, Steve Garver, Donna Rostant, Terry McLaughlin, and Greg Welch all do terrific jobs putting on safe, fun challenging events each year.  Shown here is Greg Welch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.setupevents.com\/?fuseaction=events&amp;series=vts\" title=\"Set Up Events\" target=\"_blank\">Set Up Events<\/a> after the Big Lick Smith Mountain Lake Olympic Distance Triathlon.  Travelling all over the SouthEast, Welch and his crew work tirelessly to put on great events in in diverse venues while raising money for needy charities.  Hats off to Greg Welch and all the race directors who enable this &#8220;TriathlonTrialLawyer&#8221; to combine &#8220;Races, Cases, Places and Faces.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I have celebrated athletes and coaches, I do not want to overlook the people who put it all together for the athletes, spectators and sponsors. The Race Directors make it all possible. Brian Crow, Tom Cook, Chandra Richardson, Steve Garver, Donna Rostant, Terry McLaughlin, and Greg Welch all do terrific jobs putting on safe,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/2008\/09\/18\/great-race-directors-make-great-races-happen\/\" title=\"Continue reading &lsquo;Great Race Directors Make Great Races Happen&rsquo;\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[101,1539,1691,1840,2159,2631,4783,4792,4813,5210,5251,5798],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cases","category-uncategorized","tag-abrams-landau","tag-culpeper","tag-death","tag-doug-landau","tag-fatality","tag-herndon-reston-area-law-firm","tag-sports-accident","tag-sports-death","tag-sports-injury","tag-triathlon","tag-triathlon-trial-lawyer","tag-wrongful-death"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Great Race Directors Make Great Races Happen - Sports Injury Law<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/2008\/09\/18\/great-race-directors-make-great-races-happen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Great Race Directors Make Great Races Happen - Sports Injury Law\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While I have celebrated athletes and coaches, I do not want to overlook the people who put it all together for the athletes, spectators and sponsors. 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