Gary Tuttle (born October 12, 1947) is an American long distance runner and local politician from Ventura, California.
[3] His Buena High school coach Jim Hunt followed him to Humboldt State University, where Tuttle won the Division II National Championship in the steeplechase in 1968 and 1969,[4] setting the record in that event both times.
[1] Feeling like a bullet-proof long distance runner, Tuttle found his undoing in attempting a remarkable stunt—running his age on his birthday.
The best of those runner, the TIT Racing Team, included Vomund and eventual CIF California State Meet champion Josh Spiker, who would buy the store from Tuttle in 2007.
[15] In 1988, he reported a suspiciously poor quality with the name-brand running shoes sold at Big 5 Sporting Goods stores.
The attorney general opened an investigation, and the sports retailer was fined $125,000 in 1990 for making deals with brands to manufacture low-quality shoes for distribution in Big 5 stores only, but advertising them as regular models.