Bobby Sahuque was a pioneer of distance running in the greater New Orleans area. Bobby was a charter member of the New Orleans Track Club. In 1968 as a junior at Redemptorist Sahuque won the handicap championship of the Jackson Day race. That May he finished third in the AAA (highest classification) mile at the state track meet, running a record for a New Orleans area prep runner (4:20.1). An article in the Times-Picayune mentions that he had been doing a program of two-a-day workouts for nine months, dropping his time from 4:50. In June, 1968, he ran a 4:20 mile at the Southeastern Junior championships in Atlanta. In September, Bobby finished second in an NOTC 5 mile race in 25:48, losing to Billy Wick (24:52), who was perhaps the best area runner at that time. In the December 29 Sugar Bowl track meet, McKinnon of Fair Park nipped him in the high school mile race. Bobby ran 4:19.6. He ran Jackson Day in 28:03. March 9, 1969, Bobby finally beats McKinnon with a 4:13.5, the fastest outdoor mile in the United States by a high school athlete that year, and the third fastest time in Louisiana prep history. On May 9, 1969, Bobby ran a 4:08.4 mile, the first runner from the South to break 4:10 for the mile. He won the 880 and the mile in meet record times a week later at the Meet of Champions (1:55/4:17). The events were 33 minutes apart. Later in May, Bobby won the SAAU mile in 4:20. Dillard's Zach Winnfield was second in 4:31. A Louisiana State Champion, he was invited to the Golden West Invitational where he would race with the legendary Steve Prefontaine. Sahuque finished third in the Golden West meet and was named high school all-American by Scholastic Magazine. (Was nursing a sore Achilles after Meet of Champions.) Named NOLA area amateur athlete of the year for 1969 by NOAC. Bobby went on to a collegiate career at Tulane. He ran 4:07.24 for the mile in 1973, his best collegiate time.