Coach Connelly founded the Official L. A. Marathon Training Program; (L.A. Roadrunners). He supervised and coached over 30,000 runners that participated in a five-month training program and boasted a finish rate of over 97%. Pat has given clinics at marathon races around the world on the topic, “Getting More Out of Your Training and Racing.” In addition, Coach Connelly published a book on running, “Go the Distance”.
Coach was an LA Police Sergeant who incubated the world wide drug program, “Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.)
