Archive for July, 2007

GLADSTONE — Earning first-place trophies in the annual Firecracker Run is starting to become quite a tradition for Dan and Lindsey Dehlin.
The Marquette couple, which got married in late May, again swept top honors Wednesday in the five-mile event.

Dan won for the third consecutive year in 26 minutes, 29 seconds and the former Lindsey Weier […]

A love of running has not only kept a group of women together, but is also helping to expand their ranks.
On Saturday, the Tahoe Trail Babes were the first women’s team to finish the Reno Tahoe Odyssey, completing the 122.8-mile course in 15 hours, 47 minutes and 44 seconds, a 7:42 pace. This year, the […]

Alan Brock is running to Colorado. When he gets there, he’ll cap his 900-mile jaunt by running a marathon up and down Pike’s Peak.
Brock hopes to draw awareness to the national childhood obesity epidemic through his foot-powered, 40-day trek. (That 40 is significant — 40 is the Biblical number associated with testing.) He also hopes […]

If I’m going to try something new, the school-girl nerd in me likes proper instruction. I prefer to be surrounded by people more knowledgeable, intuitive, insightful, interesting, funny, or faster than me. So I couldn’t delve into Trail Running 101 with just anyone.
I flew to Woodside, California (35 miles south of San Francisco), to try […]

While running Crossroads Christian Bookstore on the Courthouse Square in Springfield, where he also lives with wife Tish, Keith Woodall, 45, obviously marches to the beat of his own drummer.
In his latest endeavor, the world of UltraMarathons, it can be said that, with all apologies to Robert Frost, Woodall continues to run the road less […]