Farewell to Spencer

On Wednesday afternoon, I had a nice but bittersweet farewell lunch with now Marist Running Alum Spencer Johnson. Spencer just completed an amazing five-year run in our program as one of our most consistent racers -- and easily one of the nicest and kindest human beings to come through our program. Here’s the thing, though! We believe Spencer’s best steps are ahead of him, as he continues to tackle the longer race distances with earnest. Along with numerous other recent alums, Spencer will be targeting the NYC Marathon in November. This will be great, since Spencer is moving out to San Diego in a few weeks, and it’ll give him a reason/excuse to come back home. To say we will miss Spencer is a profound understatement. He will be a proud Forever Fox. Here’s a photo taken after his last race as a member of the Marist College track team, the 10km at IC4As in Princeton. His fellow 2017 graduates (he raced 2018 as a fifth-year graduate student) came back to watch his last race in red and white. But don’t worry. He’s got more races in the red-and-white alumni racing team singlet.