Store Bios
Meet the dedicated management and staff at the Big Peach Running Company.
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In 1973, on a warm May day, a brilliant child was born. At the child’s birth, three great runners came to worship the newborn running child. It took 25 years for the running child to realize that he should start running, but once his potential was realized, a star was born. Andrew has won competitions in every race distance from the …
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Growing up in a family of runners, Brennan has been exposed to an active lifestyle since birth. His running career began somewhat reluctantly at age 13, but the sport inevitably and intensely grew on him. He competed in cross country and track locally at Chamblee High School and went on to compete at the NCAA level for Furman University. Brennan …
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The daughter of a well-respected high school track and cross country coach, Erin grew up around all things running, literally playing on the track as an infant. Surrounded by a family where “play cross country” seemed perfectly normal, Erin’s passion for the active lifestyle was inevitable. Active between soccer and cross country until graduation from McEachern High School in 2003, Erin …
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Floren ran competitively in high school (Tallahassee, Florida) and college (Georgia Tech), and has since embraced much longer, slower adventures. Floren has run such famed marathons as Disney, Chicago, NYC, Boston, and of course ING Georgia - where she is in her second year as an official time group pacer. She puts her heart and soul into the Georgia Ultrarunning and …
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Jeff Campbell, General Manager of Big Peach Running Co. in Brookhaven, has been in specialty running retail for 6 years. With his keen eye for fashion he is also the apparel buyer for our stores. Jeff started running at six years old, continued through college, and recently ended a 12 year tour on the professional running circuit. He competed on 8 …
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The General Manager for the Marietta location since July 1st, 2006 Joe came to BPRC from James Madison University in his native Harrisonburg, VA where he coached the men and women in cross country, indoor and outdoor track. A competitive track & cross country runner during his collegiate years at the Brevard College and Clemson University, Joe moved north to Michigan …
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Karen’s zest for a pedestrian active lifestyle was born after winning her first attempt at a 100 yard race back in the 6th grade. She continued to run in junior high school, and while not on any competitive teams, kept going into adulthood. Upon moving to Atlanta, this New York City native developed asthma, and running became a bit difficult. To …
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Lukasz was introduced to running during high school in his hometown of Rybnik, Poland and quickly developed a passion for the sport. With his middle distance background he was invited to the United States in 2003 to run cross country and track and field at Kennesaw State University. The amazing atmosphere during the cross country races helped him to discover his …
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Arguably, no one knows more about running and walking in Atlanta than Mike Cosentino. As the author of the Atlanta Running Guide* (Peachtree Publishers, 2003), Mike has spent years learning — and telling us — about: the best places to run in and around the city the most popular events that fill our calendar every weekend the wonderful people that participate …
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Nate Price started running his freshman year in high school in New Jersey after his soccer coach (who was also the track coach) thought he’d be a pretty good half miler and 400 meter hurdler. After a week of hurdle practice and choking on cinders from falling over the very first hurdle in his very first race, Nate and the coaches …
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Peachy was born as a figment of someone’s Photoshop imagination and quickly became established in the Atlanta running scene. Peachy started running in competitive events in the late 90’s but after being DQ’ed for rolling his way to apparent victory, he was forced to grow a skinny pair of legs. Even though Peachy was always supplied with competitive running shoes from …
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With more than 25 years of endurance sports experience, Steve DeMoss has spent the majority of his life “living the lifestyle.” A competitive swimmer through college, Steve discovered running after entering a triathlon in the mid 1980’s. Now a veteran of countless events including road and trail runs, triathlons and adventure races, Steve has completed Ironman Canada, the Escape from Alcatraz …
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An athlete her entire life, Theresa joined the running scene after using it as cross training for softball during her freshman year of college. The following spring she completed her first 5k, narrowly missing placement in her age group. The experience left the Harpursville, NY native inspired to train for longer distances and to run more races. From that moment on, …
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Todd Liscomb’s passion for running began at the young age of 11, after completing his first road race, (a 4.75 mile race) and finishing about 280th place out of 9,000 runners. Todd’s competitive edge and will to succeed began here and continued throughout junior high school, high school, college and continues today. The Connecticut native’s running success earned him All-State and …
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