Mount Pleasant Magazine March/April 2013

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USA Track and Field, and she is in the running again this
year. Poe also has won the Marcus Newberry award, given
to the first place local male and female in the Cooper
River Bridge Run.
Like Schlau, Poe has not always been a premier runner.
“I just sort of got enthralled with the Charleston Run-
ning Club and the running culture,” said Poe, speaking of
the days leading up to her elite running status.
The Rives Poe who sat across from me that day at Fuel
was a runner through and through. She runs more than
50 miles a week, and she wasn’t happy about what she
considered to be a poor performance in last year’s Cooper
River Bridge Run.
“This year it’s going to be under 37 minutes,” Poe said,
referring to her unacceptable time of 38:20 last year.
Poe has run numerous races around the country but
maintains that one of her favorites is the Bridge Run.
“The run has been nothing but fun,” Poe said, remem-
bering her 2010 race.
Poe’s friend, Marc Embler, one of only six American
men to win the Bridge Run, told Poe she would never
beat him in a run. Stifling laughter, Poe described a scene
when a “lanky, tan, curly-haired man” passed her on the
back half of the run. Embler turned around and began
running backward and yelling at Poe, “I told you that you
would never beat me. Why even try?”
“The crowd must have been wondering what was
wrong with this guy,” Poe said.
Poe did not end up beating Embler that year, but with
her best time of 37:04 in the 2011 Cooper River Bridge
Run, Poe finally proved Embler wrong.
Oprah Winfrey, Bill Murray, Carolyn Murray, Bob
Schlau and Rives Poe are just a few of the famous faces
that have graced the race-party-fiesta-festival that is the
Cooper River Bridge Run. On the first weekend in April,
the run begins early and the fun lasts late, and, if you’re
lucky, you might spot your favorite celebrity trotting
down Meeting Street.
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