• Comment: We don't need endless details of "official selections to be shown" and only notable awards need to be mentioned, ie. those with Wikipedia articles. Theroadislong (talk) 18:09, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

• Comment: IMDb is not a reliable source (user edited)) and we don't need references for his books the ISBN numbers are sufficient. Theroadislong (talk) 18:06, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

• Comment: Might be notable, but needs a great deal of cleanup. Way too long a laundry list of awards; clean those up to only those independent sources listed as particularly significant, if any. Lose the award logo. Promotional text in quotation marks is still promotional. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 16:40, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

Anthony (Tony) Renard Reed (born July 2, 1955) is an American business executive, hall of fame athlete, author, and documentary writer and director.^[1]

He was awarded the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition Hero Award in 2024.^[2] He "is recognized for his efforts in promoting diversity and inclusion in distance running. His advocacy has helped to inspire people to participate in running and endurance sports."^[2]

In 2022, Reed was inducted into the Road Runners Club of America (RRCA) National Distance Running Hall of Fame.^[3] In 2017, he was inducted into the National Black Distance Running Hall of Fame.^[4] He was also recognized as a Notable Alumni in athletics by Webster University.^[5]

In 2004, he completed fifty marathons in one state, Texas.^[6][7] He is the first Black person in the world to run marathons on all seven continents in 2007^[8][9][10], including the Antarctica Marathon .^[11] The running clothes and other artifacts from Kenya's Safaricom Lewa Marathon, the seventh continent, are with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.^[12] A video recording of his life story was made by The HistoryMakers^[13].^[14]

In 2013, he completed the "marathon hat trick", which consists of running

1. marathons on seven continents (2007),^[8][9][10],
2. at least one hundred marathons (2009),^[15][16] and
3. a marathon in all fifty states (2013).^[17]

He is also a triathlete and won age group and weight division trophies in marathons^[18] and biathlons.^[19]

He was in the finish line area during the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.^[20][21]

He served on the board of directors of athletic organizations (National Black Marathoners Association^[8], Theodore Corbitt Institute^[22], Dallas White Rock Marathon ^[23][24][25], Caribbean Endurance Sports Corp.^[26], and Running USA^[27]), Oracle Applications Users Group,^[28] and Ft. Worth's Jubilee Theatre.^[29]

In 2021, he wrote and directed the feature-length documentary, Breaking Three Hours: Trailblazing African American Women Marathoners. It focused on nine USA-born, African American women, who ran 26.2-mile marathons in under three hours and were inducted into the National Black Distance Running Hall of Fame. It featured Marilyn Bevans, Michele Bush-Cuke, Alisa Harvey, Ella Willis-Glaze, Michele Tiff-Hill, Samia Akbar, Shawanna White, Ingrid Walters, and Sika Henry. In 2023, he wrote and directed the feature-length documentary, We ARE Distance Runners: Untold Stories of African American Athletes. It is about dispelling the myth that African Americans are sprinters and not distance runners by profiling seven African American distance runners, including himself, who were inducted into the National Black Distance Running Hall of Fame. It features Richard "Dick" Gregory, Ronald Gregory, Lisa Felder, Shalisa "Lisa" Davis, Alphonzo Jackson, Theodore "Ted" Corbitt, and Anthony Renard Reed.^[30][31][32]

• Reed, Anthony Renard, From the Road Race to the Rat Race, 2020, ISBN 978-1-7355512-0-3.
• Reed, Anthony Renard, Running to Leadership: What Finishing 100+ Marathons On All Seven Continents Teaches Us About Success, 2011, ISBN 978-0-9800215-6-1.
• Reed, Anthony Renard, Finding the I in Team: Better Team Building Through Individual Building, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9800215-3-0.
• Reed, Anthony Renard, The Achievement Equation: Your Formula for Success, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9800215-0-9.
• Reed, Anthony Renard, Running Shoes Are Cheaper Than Insulin: Marathon Adventures On All Seven Continents, 2008, ISBN 978-0-9800215-2-3.
• Reed, Anthony Renard, The SMART Degree: The Young Professional's Guide to Reality, 1989, ISBN 978-0-9623582-0-3.

Reed was born and raised in Saint Louis, MO. His love of the outdoors started while attending Camp Wyman in Eureka, MO in the early 1960's. Later, he attended Camp Sherwood Forest in Troy, MO and became a camp counsellor. His mother worked at Soldan High School, which was across the street from his elementary and middle schools. His interest in distance running grew from watching Soldan's cross country team. His mother introduced him to their coach and NCAA All American in cross country and track, Dr. Ronald Gregory, who is Dick Gregory's younger brother.

After attending the predominately Black, inner city Enright Middle School, he went to John Burroughs School. He participated in cross country, soccer, baseball, and track (quarter- and half mile).^[33]

In 1978, he graduated from Webster University in St. Louis with undergraduate degrees in mathematics and management and started a career in information technology.^[34] In 1982, he received a Master of Business Administration in management from Abilene Christian University in Dallas^[25]. In 1992, he received a Master of Science degree in accounting from the University of Texas at Dallas and was a member of the Accounting Honor Society.^[35][36] He became a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in 1994,^[37][38] earned his Project Management Professional (PMP) certification in 2002^[39], and supply chain management certification^[25] from University of Texas at Dallas in 2007. As an adjunct professor, he taught management, IT, accounting, and project management courses.^[25]