Most or probably all our past Golden Shoe Award recipients were or are high visibility people, you knew they were there, they took charge and to some degree fairly vocal. This year’s recipient of the Golden Shoe Award is more laid back. Except for his running successes you seldom hear his name or know that he is involved. However, he is and has been very involved in our running community.   

Terry has been a member of SCR club since moving to Titusville 10 years ago. He was on the SCR Board of Directors for three years, but last year at this time he accepted the position of “Treasurer. At that time the SCR was not broke but we were scraping the bottom at the bank to pay for the SCR awards ceremony. Today, thanks in large part to Terry’s efforts we are $7500 to the good. Terry didn’t do anything out of the ordinary except to take his job very seriously and to make sure the invoices were mailed out and the debits and credits were completed.   

Terry also, in the background, has been the assistant race director for the Indian River Festival 8K for the last several years. He has recently accepted to be the race director for the 20th annual Indian River Festival 8K next year. If he does as well as race director as he has as treasurer the Indian River Festival should be the premier race in the county. Terry has also spent many hours volunteering at the Space Coast 12/24 Hour Ultra Marathon, The Great Outdoors 4 Mile Cross Country Race, The Canaveral National Seashore 5K as well as many other local races. Now, when we say Terry volunteered at these races, we really mean Terry, his wife Regina, daughters Anna and Lydia. When Terry volunteers, his family volunteers with him (we get 4 for the price of 1).   

Terry is also a role model to many of the Titusville High School cross country and track runners. When these young ladies and men see the “old guys” training and training hard through the Florida heat and rain it sets a good example of what can be done with some hard work. And knowing of Mr. Hayden’s running accomplishments really emphasizes the point to them. I know of at least one occurrence and I’m sure there were several times when Anna or Lydia were told “hey, I saw your dad running in the rain yesterday!”

For the reasons stated above and for the many things not mentioned, we would like to take this time to express our appreciation and gratitude to Terry Hayden and present him with the 1997 GOLDEN SHOE AWARD.