John Stifler steps down after 25 years as press liaison for Mount Washington races
CONWAY — The only press liaison the Mount Washington Road Race has ever know — John Stifler — is retiring after 25 years of being one of the faces behind the famed running race and two bike races. Saturday's Mount Washington Auto Road Bicycle Hillclimb was Stifler's final race in a media role. That's not to say the 68-year-old hasn't ruled out competing on the Beast of the East in the future.
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