TACOMA, Wash. – October 15, 2024 – Angela Treleven, a board member of Sprague Pest Solutions, a commercial-only pest management company based in Tacoma; recently completed her 50th marathon in as many states, recently finishing the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon in Minneapolis/St. Paul on October 6th, 2024.
Treleven’s accomplishment adds her name to a list of only 171 runners, 38 of whom are women, who can claim they’ve finished races in every state. To put the achievement in further context, according to the running website RunRepeat, only 0.05 percent of the U.S. population has completed a marathon.
Daughter of long-time Sprague emeritus Vice President Larry Treleven, and sibling to current CEO/President, Ross Treleven and Director of Sales, Paul Treleven; Angela started her marathon journey in 2013 by running the Great Wall Marathon in China. Since that first race, she has completed 84 total races, including the high-profile Six Star events in Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, New York City and Tokyo, and most recently the Sydney marathon.
Most impressive are her consistent race times, each of her 50 marathon times would qualify her for the Boston Marathon which requires the strictest entry times in the world where the current qualification time for women is 3 hours, 30 minutes. This past November, she clocked a personal best of 3 hours and 6 minutes and is motivated to improve on that.
“I love the competition, and I feed off the energy of the crowds and other runners,” said Angela, who was joined in Minneapolis by her husband, family, and cadre of friends. “Running has always provided me with the satisfaction of doing something that is really hard and that allows me to motivate and inspire others to accomplish things in their own lives.”
The Treleven family possesses a proud history of running; her father is an avid runner and her mother, Jane, competed internationally as a teenager in her native Great Britain and was a U.S. national masters age-group champion. Angela found running later in life when she took up the sport after her husband completed his own marathon. In addition to being able to spend time together with their busy schedules, running provided a release from the stress of her job as an auditor for a global accounting firm.
“I told myself I would only run in shorter races but once I ran a full marathon and qualified for the Boston Marathon I was hooked,” said Angela.
Treleven said she has learned to persevere through all types of weather, running surfaces, and logistical challenges while running. From snow and sleet in Maine, to running on crushed shells in South Carolina, to competing under the threat of a ballistic missile attack in Hawaii, each marathon brought something new that has allowed her to learn more about herself and what is possible when you commit to a goal.
Treleven’s marathon journey has just begun, her next goals are to complete races in Africa, South America, and Antarctica, the three continents where she has yet to run, and to revisit past races to improve her time.