Essential Pittsburgh

Meet The Mathematical Muscle Behind The Pittsburgh Marathon


Listen Later

Finish line logistics captain Brian Schmidt is in the thick of it now. All last month he categorized and readied a behemoth assortment of race-day paraphernalia across two floors of a Strip District U-Haul facility. Today, he’s a walking ledger for pallets of road cones, fruit cups, Vaseline and mylar spread over 14 neighborhoods in dozens of tarp-covered, plywood boxes.
...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Essential PittsburghBy 90.5 WESA