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Our Video Guy Poses With Various Things at the U.S. Track & Field Trials

When nothing is happening, Derek Call is happening.

by Chris Kraft and
Derek Call working

Derek Call is part of the Runner’s World team in Oregon covering the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials. His assignment is to take video and send it back to us, which he is doing. There's this one, this one, and this one, among others.

What is not part of his assignment is taking pictures of himself and sending those back to us. But, for some reason, he's doing that too.

Because we like Derek, and because we like to share, we've compiled some of his photos into a slideshow, for the deserving readers of RW.

And so we present ...

1
Derek Call with a duck
Derek with a giant duck.
(Derek is on the left.)
2
Derek Call with ducks

Derek with two regular-sized ducks.

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3
Derek Call, Kit Fox
Derek with a Fox.
Kit Fox. (Who also works for RW)
4
Derek Call with doughnut
Derek with a big glazed doughnut.
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5
Derek Call at Hayward Field
Derek with real, actual athletes.
6
Derek Call in Springfield
Derek with the Simpsons Mural in Springfield, Oregon. 
And we pause here for a moment, because, as Derek himself said in sending this photo back to his us, this was, for him, “a very emotional experience.”
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Derek Call in Springfield
One more, just to let the enormity of the moment sink in.
8
Derek Call at Hayward Field
Aaaaand we're back. 
Derek with a Hayward Field sign.
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9
Derek Call at race
Derek with his massive biceps.
10
Derek Call with hamburger
Derek with one half-eaten hamburger, several tater tots, two brownies, two cookies, two forms of identification, and one super-patriotic shirt.
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Derek Call with a duck
Derek with another giant duck. 
We’ve officially come full circle.
And that’s where we’ll leave it.
Keep recording, Derek.
Headshot of Derek Call
Derek Call
Video Producer

Since becoming a video producer for Runner’s World in 2014, Derek has captured such historic moments as Meb Keflezighi and Desiree Linden’s Boston victories and Amy Cragg’s win at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, and Galen Rupp and Shalane Flanagan breaking the tape in Chicago and New York, respectively.

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Derek Call working
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