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Beyond the Chip: Running Elders By Linda Ewing

High School Runner of the Year: Noah Jacobs By Jeff Hollobaugh

Running Shorts with Scott Hubbard Downriver Runners: By Anthony Targan Michigan Runner Race Series 2016 Publisher’s Letter By Art McCafferty Editors’ Notes By Mike Duff, Dave Foley, Jennie McCafferty

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600 Writers, 1979-2016 By Jennie McCafferty Master of the Lede – a Tribute to Charles Douglas McEwen

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AATC Summer Mini-Meet Ann Arbor Firecracker 5K Electric Bolt Gallup Gallop Kona Run U.S. Olympic Team Trials, T&F Battle of Warterloo Dart for Art Goddess Tri Great Beer Run Plymouth Father’s Day Runs Summer Soulstice Ypsilanti Color Run

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About the cover: Noah Jacobs wins 3200 meter run, New Balance Outdoor Nationals, Greensboro, North Carolina, June, 2016.

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Back to Beach Runners Embrace Record Temperature

By Tracey Cohen

Ann Arbor Half Marathon: Keeping Pace By Kacey Tulley Atwood Stadium 5K nd 10K By Charles Douglas McEwen Cherry Fest Boasts Winners All Along the Way

By Mickey Fivenson

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Hollow Victory at Alma Highland Festival By Michael Heberling Runners Exercise Freedom at Canton Liberty Run

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Charlevoix Marathon Celebrates 10 Years, Record Turnout

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Trinh Takes Charge at Electric Bolt By C.D. McEwen New Generation Carries On Steeplechase Tradition at Diemer Races Photos by Scott Sullivan Legend Half Marathon & 5M Beat the Heat By Tracey Cohen Matulis Repeats at Independence Aquathlon By Tracey Cohen Guertin, Depaul Soar in Pterodactyl Tri By C.D. McEwen Triceratops Tri is Dutch Treat By C.D. McEwen Jordan, Rehm Taste Sweet Strawberry Run Treats

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Beyond the Chip

hen I began jogging in July 1996 I was in my mid-30s and looking to lose some weight. Running on the treadmill at the gym was awful; running outside worse. It was hot, I was slow, gnats adhered to my sweaty body and everything hurt. The only reason I kept at it was to shut up an older friend who assured me if I gave running half a chance, I’d fall in love with it. I was determined to prove him wrong.

Instead, I proved him right. I fell in love, not just with running, but with runners — and especially with the old-timers, veterans and pioneers, the surprisinglyyouthful elders of the running community.

My first-ever race was the Belle Isle Family Fun Run on New Year’s Eve 1996. It was not something I’d planned to do. Sure, I’d become rather fond of running, but racing? I entered the because I happened to be running through Grosse Pointe on a cold and rainy December day when a woman I’d never met stopped her car, jumped out and handed me a registration form with the exhortation, “You should run this race!” up?

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Under the circumstances, how could I not sign

So a few weeks later I ran four miles in 35 minutes and change, which was both farther and faster than I’d ever run before. It was exhilarating and — thanks to the woman in the car, who turned out to be women’s running pioneer Jeanne Bocci — I was hooked.

The more I raced, the more veteran runners I got to know. Many had started in the sport during the 1970s running boom. Some were older than me by a decade or more, some were my contemporaries or near-contemporaries, but all were my running elder, and I was more than a little in awe of them.

I loved their stories about cross country high jinks, races timed with popsicle sticks and getting lost in the woods on epic trail runs. I loved their old-school insouciance, their disdain for fads and fancy gear. I loved learning after the fact, from others, that the modest individual with whom I’d just swapped post-race congratulations held the American record for their age group. I loved the inclusiveness with which they spoke of “our sport.”

Most of all, I loved their kindness and helpfulness. They kept straight faces when I burbled on about my high-mileage, 30-mile weeks. They invited me to group runs. They didn’t press their training advice on me but were always willing to answer naïve questions and gently steer me away from some of my more ill-advised ideas. They were almost as proud as I was (but much less surprised) when I fi-

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nally broke 20 minutes in the 5K.

Fast-forward 20 years. The older friend who introduced me to running died of cancer in the early 2000s and I ran my first marathon in his honor. I got faster, had my own encounter with breast cancer and got slower. I moved from Michigan to New York.

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Through it all I kept running, because what else was I to do?

Linda Ewing Running had become – and remains – as much a part of my daily routine as brushing my teeth or drinking my morning coffee.

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I can’t pinpoint when but somewhere along the way, even as my 5K times were increasing, I realized other runners in my new community regarded me as a running elder. This came as a shock. Sure, I had moved up an age group (or two, three or four). And sure, many of my new running buddies are young enough to be my children. But a growing number of people were treating me as someone with historical perspective — maybe even someone who’d accumulated a bit of wisdom over the years.

The wisdom part is debatable but the passage of time isn’t. I’m as old now, and have been running for almost as many years, as the individuals I considered running elders in the 1990s. Like them, I remember things that seem impossibly quaint today: registering for races by sealing a form in an envelope, affixing a stamp and dropping it in the U.S. Mail ... tearing off race numbers in the (sex-specific) finish chute and having them put on a spindle ... struggling to untie that fancy, ultra-high-tech shoe chip so it could be tossed in the return bucket. I keep a file folder of brittle newspaper clippings and back issues of this magazine, and I remain stubbornly attached to my non-GPS running watch. I’m clueless about Strava and other running apps. I’m not big on gear, new running apparel or the latest shoes.

And while I can’t claim the same level of accomplishment as my own running elders, I can at least aspire to their level of kindness and helpfulness. I know now, as they did then, that the best consolation for getting older and slower is watching others fall in love with this sport of ours.

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Noah Jacobs, bib 3565, competes in the Spartan Invitational “Elite Boys” race, September, 2015.

oah Jacobs, our High School Runner of the Year, is not afraid to set big goals.

This spring, he hoped to win the Division 2 state title in the 3200 — though that goal wasn’t so immense, since he had won the title a year before as a sophomore.

The big part was Jacobs wanted to break nine minutes, the national-class benchmark in the event.

Only 15 schoolboys in Michigan history had ever breached that barrier. And most coaches would advise runners with 9:27 PRs to cool their heels and consider waiting another year before dreaming so big.

Yet Jacobs, a Corunna High School junior, felt he had more under the hood than his PR indicated.

“I only lost one 2-mile race that year and it was at team states when I did a 1600/3200 double,” he said. “I never felt like I was fully pushed all the way.”

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his 9:27.49 best to win the D2 finals.

A great cross country season last fall bolstered his confidence further. He blasted a 15:00 for 5K at the prestigious Portage Invitational, losing by just a second to Morgan Beadlescomb of Algonac. The two met again at the D2 finals at Michigan International Speedway, with Beadlescomb, a year older than Jacobs, again winning, this time by four seconds.

“I knew it would a good race,” recounted Jacobs. “I knew it would be either me or him.”

Those losses fueled the training Jacobs put together over the winter to become one of the nation’s best. “That really helped me see that in track, running under nine would be a possibility,” he said.

“It motivated to train to run faster than (Beadlescomb) did. But at the same time, when you get to the track, he is more of a miler and I’m more of a 2-miler. It pushed me to not want to lose and helped start a fire I hadn’t had for a lot of the season, because I’d been

winning a lot of conference meets,” Jacobs said.

In track the hard work showed. Jacobs finished 11th in the nation in the full 2-mile (3,218.68 meters) at the New Balance Indoor Nationals in New York City, clocking 9:08.53. Then he produced a flawless outdoor season, staying undefeated at 1600 and 3200. At the shorter distance he clocked a PR 4:17.08, but saved the 3200 for the biggest meets.

After a 9:03.30 season opener, Jacobs defended his state title with an impressive 8:55.57 solo run. That moved him to No. 9 in state history; no one has ever run faster in the D2 finals.

Then Jacobs traveled to Greensboro, N.C., for the New Balance Outdoor Nationals. “I knew I had a good chance,” he said. “A lot of good guys were out at the Brooks PR (meet in Seattle). It gave me a confidence boost in I didn’t have to race (sub-4-minute miler) Drew Hunter or someone like that.”

Still, observers probably wouldn’t have called Jacobs the favorite in the national championship race over two

miles. “I wanted to get in there and compete for one of the first times all season,” Jacobs said — as opposed to running alone or for team points. “I was looking forward to getting into a group and racing with guys. My goal was to give everything I had whatever the pace was and try to make it on the podium.”

measure of recruiting interest from colleges. A straight-A student, he is torn between Michigan and Michigan State, with Stanford leading the out-ofstate options.

With the win in 9:03.71, Jacobs became only the third Michigander to win the New Balance 2-mile. The others — Abdul Alzindani of Dearborn Fordson and Dathan Ritzenhein of Rockford — were both Footlocker national cross country champions.

Jacobs is especially driven to win the state title that eluded him last year — “heartbreaking” he called it. He feels equally strong about Corunna’s fifth-place fate.

Faced with a big pack still in contention with two laps left in the tactical race, Jacobs made the brave move. “I took over and went with everything I had,” he said. “It was just enough to hold off the rest the field in the last 800.”

Not that the win was easy. Said Jacobs of his process, “I got in the position I wanted to go from.

When you get there you have to run confident, but you’re definitely running scared knowing the other guys are there. Suddenly you’re the guy everyone’s going after. It helps you to keep it full throttle. You don’t relax.”

Not surprisingly, Jacobs is drawing a good

Busy training for his senior year in cross country, Jacobs is pounding away 70-plus-mile weeks with an eye toward building his mileage until he gets close to 90. It’s a far cry from the 50-mile weeks that worked for last year’s Runner of the Year, Grant Fisher, but Jacobs and his coach, Bryan Heid, know what works for him.

“It just wasn’t our day as a group,” he said. But this fall, despite the graduation of the squad’s No. 2 and 3 runners, Jacobs feels the team will contend for the title. One of the key runners will be his younger brother, Ben, who didn’t make the top seven last year but improved to a 4:23.34 as a ninth-grader to finish sixth in the state 1600.

“Ben has a lot more speed than I did,” said Jacobs.

“He’s a lot smarter racer than I was at that age.”

Jacobs’ personal goal this season is a big one.

“Ritzenhein’s record,” he said boldly. The 14:11 run by the future 3-time Olympian at the 2000 state finals is considered by many the best cross country performances by a prep boy in U.S. history.

Jacobs knows everything has to be perfect for a run at the record. He said he’ll be able to gauge by October’s Portage Invitational whether he has a realistic shot at it. He knows he would have to lead virtually the entire race to hit that number.

“Sometimes that’s just what it takes,” he said. “I have adapted and figured out how to run alone a lot more this year. From the front of the pack is where it will have to be done. That’s how he (Ritzenhein) did it.”

With a year still left in his high school career, Jacobs already has had a career that places him among the national elite. Not bad for a guy who, coming into high school, had planned to play baseball in the spring. A broken arm and solid freshman cross country year convinced him track might be the best way to go. “I think I made the right decision,” Jacobs said.

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Running Shorts with Scott Hubbard

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Trivia: How many African-bornturned-American men made the U.S. Olympic team in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters, marathon and 3K steeplechase?

Scott Hubbard

RULE. Scott’s first rule of running: don’t think, just run.

RULE 2: Remember Rule 1.

RULE 3: All running is fun. If it wasn’t you wouldn’t do it. Rather than just say it was fun, which to some extent is redundant, why not share why it was fun; what made it so? Peel back the things that made it fun.

RULE 4: Never run with traffic at your back. Ever.

RULE 5: Always pay attention to traffic. Everywhere.

RULE 6: Regard 20 miles as halfway in the marathon.

RULE 7: Show up on time to run with others.

RULE 8: Don’t be a workout hero. Don’t leave a good race on a training run.

RULE 9: Don’t refer to Ann Arbor Track Club president and newly-anointed Road Runner Clubs of America president Mitch Garner as “King of Running.” “Prime Minister” will do.

RULE 16: It’s OK to take your running seriously, but not yourself. Let your results speak for themselves.

RULE 17: Don’t spit into the wind. Trust me on this one.

RULE 18: Check the info on your race number for correct name, race distance and spelling.

recommended.

RULE 37: Don’t feel diminished by others’ efforts.

Be your own best runner.

RULE 38: There’s no such thing as a “real runner.”

You’re a runner if you think you are. Critics are a dime a dozen.

RULE 19: Read race instructions thoroughly.

RULE 39: Don’t over-inflate your accomplishments.

It won’t look good on you.

RULE 20: Volunteer at a race. Thank the race officials, including police.

RULE 39: Running is a mind and body cleansing experience.

RULE 21: Parents, please support and encourage your kids; criticism is not good form.

RULE 40: Wear reflective gear or carry a good, reliable light source in the dark.

RULE 22: When running in the country, make sure to partner with somebody slower. That way you only have to outrun them when a dog comes after you.

RULE 41: If you come to an obstacle you’re not sure you can jump, don’t try.

RULE 23: If an ache persists past the one-mile mark of a run, it’s not likely to get better before it gets worse.

RULE 24: After opening a package of energy food, do not toss the wrapper on the ground.

RULE 25: Buy your shoes 1/2 size big. Your toes thank you.

RULE 26: Take care of chafing needs pre-run or race.

RULE 27: Set off against the wind in winter. Ride it home.

RULE 28: Ask yourself once in a while what keeps you running?

RULE 42: It’s OK not to have a marathon on your racing résumé. Many on both ends, the fastest and slowest, have no interest.

RULE 43: Except for races, start all runs at a slow pace. Some will speed up, some not, but all will benefit from the warm-up’.

RULE 44: An illness or ache that requires time off won’t necessarily set your running back. It may be just the rest and recovery you need.

RULE 45: Joining a club, training group or regular weekly running group is a great idea. Running with others is a good thing.

RULE 46: Don’t let running define you. Enjoy, embrace the process and let the results be your reward.

RULE 29: Whether a 5- or 12-minute mile, it’s still a mile.

RULE 47: Don’t wear your shoes down to the nub.

Replace every 300 to 500 miles or when you sense the support and/or cushioning aren’t sufficient.

RULE 10: There are no secrets to success in running, no shortcuts. Show up, put in the work. You’ll get what you deserve.

RULE 30: Recover from hard efforts in training or racing. Ten percent of total weekly mileage is a good benchmark for the harder stuff.

RULE 48: Borrowing from Joe Henderson’s book “Running A to Z,” post-race chatter is a ritual not to miss.

RULE 11: All races should be held on accuratelymeasured courses. Nearly 99 percent of those that are not are short.

RULE 31: Injuries start with the feet and work their way up the leg. Happy feet make for a happier runner.

RULE 12: Don’t cross the finish line if you aren’t wearing a race number.

RULE 32: Don’t overdress — in any weather.

RULE 49: Borrowing again from Henderson: Ron Clarke, an Australian who once owned more than a dozen world records, called success and failure “the twin imposters.” He said success isn’t as good as it seems if it limits us, and failure isn’t as bad if it teaches.

RULE 13: Don’t run/walk two or three people across the road/path, impeding the progress of others behind you.

RULE 14: Walkers, please start at the back of the pack.

RULE 15: Don’t give another runner your race number unless you transfer the info with race officials.

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RULE 33: Stretch if you must. I guess. Many swear by it, most do little or none. Truth is, it does help.

RULE 34: Ultramarathoners aren’t normal. They just go the extra mile(s).

RULE 35: It’s OK to walk in a marathon. Better to take planned breaks than forced.

RULE 36: Running through an injury is not

RULE 50: Borrowing from a Nike ad: “There is no finish line.” Priorities change but the new miles can be as satisfying as the old.

Answer: Seven of the 12 available spots including all three in the 5,000 meters.

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Back to the Beach, Shelby Township

Back to Beach Runners Embrace Record Temperature

SHELBY TOWNSHIP (5/15/16) – Outside of a stiff breeze and light snow flurries, partly-sunny skies and 40° temperatures made for ideal racing conditions … if only the calendar read Dec. 24.

Said Stony Creek Back to the Beach race director Joe Burns about the coldest day in the race’s six year history, “It was interesting to see snow in the park this morning.

“We really have a great crowd,” he continued, noting the smiles and laughter among runners in his sixth straight sellout field.

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25:23.0 to 25:23.8. Shannon Schulte, 12, of Royal Oak was third in 25:24. Marla Jorgens, 49, of Warren topped the masters in 27:11.

uted among various local nonprofits and used to makle trail improvements.

Back to the Beach is a fundraiser for the Detroit Chapter of Medals 4 Mettle. Burns said more than 5,000 medals have been gifted to children in need and proceeds netting $25,000 would be distrib-

For complete results and information on Back to the Beach 2017, visit http://backtothebeachraces.com.

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Mother Nature was not the only one setting records.

Alexandria Vintevoghel, 25, of Casco won the 10K outright in 40:41, smashing the 43:01 women’s course record set by Amber Dermyre in 2014.

Eric Esper, 20, of Warren, took second overall in 42:36, followed by top master Joseph Kaiser, 49, of Rochester in 42:40 and Alex Schumaker, 23, of Clinton Township in 46:20.

Jennifer Spiller, 38, of Chesterfield and Carmen Drury, 34, of Royal Oak rounded out the top three women in 44:12 and 45:50 respectively. Adriana Pantaleo, 40, Shelby Township topped the masters in 49:59.

Matt Fecht, 32, of Warren, won the half marathon in 1:15:39, missing setting a new course record by 19 seconds. Alex Ratliff, 21, of Macomb and Daniel Parker, 25 of Utica finished 2-3 in 1:17:45 and 1:23:41. Rich Power, 52, Rochester paced the masters in 1:25:59.

Amanda Vintevoghel, 28, Casco, won the women’s half marathon in 1:31:38, followed by masters champ Heather Lewandowsk, 42, of New Baltimore in 1:32:07 and Jennifer Kunst, 35, of Smiths Creek in 1:36:54.

Jack Wexler, 14, of Shelby Township won the 5K in 21:48. Next came Michael Andrzejewski, 17, of Sterling Heights in 23:17 and Angel Roussev, 14, of West Bloomfield in 23:23. Edward Andrzejewski, 46, of Sterling Heights was first master in 28:52.

Claire Souder, 15, of Shelby Township nipped Lauren Lutz, 13, of Warren for the women’s 5K title,

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Downriver Runners: 30-Plus Years Running Together in Any Weather

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n Super Bowl Sunday Jan. 20, 1985, a major winter storm hit southeast Michigan. In Allen Park there were 10 inches of snow on the ground and windchills of 10 below zero.

While most people were hunkered down inside their homes getting ready for the big game, at 6 p.m. about 30 hearty runners showed up for the first meeting of the Downriver Runners club, and they’ve been defying the odds and the weather ever since. The group runs together in Allen Park and other downriver communities every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.

Among that inaugural group were founders Tony Mifsud, Dr. Mike Simms and Rollie Hopgood.

Mifsud, now 72, credits Dr. Ron Baker with the idea behind starting the club and acknowledged key members who “became an extended family of our club” including Jim Eagleston, Rollie and Chris Hopgood, Nina and Ed Derda, Gary Olsen, Ann and Ben Franas, Don Courtney, Eve and Dave Howell, Dan Martinez, Brad Emmons, Greg and Jenny Everal among many others.

The club took over sponsorship of the Park Athletic 10,000 Meters Race (now the Allen Park 5K/10K; its 40th annual race was held in August) and has hosts the Riverview Winterfest 4-miler in February since 1987.

Emmons, 61, says his “favorite memory of running with the group is the Great Lakes Relay team we put together each July. I’m entering my 21st year.” He applauded the fact that the club awards a pair of $1,000 scholarships in Mifsud’s name to deserving area high school track and cross-country runners.

Sabrina Williams, who now runs at Grand Valley State University, won the scholarship in 2014. She first joined the Downriver Runners in seventh grade.

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“Back then,” Williams remembered, “I felt so cool, often being the youngest runner on Wednesday night. My dad and I would run with the DRR in the middle of winter when it was in the single digits and snow was on the ground.

“Running with the DRR pushed me to run harder. I would always want to stick with the older runners as long as I could to prove myself. As I got older, the group gave me confidence that I could take into races, but also my life outside of running.

The DRR is a huge part of why I fell in love with the sport of running,” Williams said.

What is the key to keeping a running club going for more than 30 years? Current president Dan Martinez of Allen Park (who joined in 1987) said that the club is “always in motion” with a good mix of old and new members.

“It’s a very healthy thing to know every Wednesday night at 6:30 -- all year long, rain, snow or whatever the weather -- people will meet,” he continued. “That’s a good feeling. It’s a consistency.

You’ll get to meet people with the same mindset.”

It costs $10 to join but it’s not really about the money. “The whole idea is not the membership fee,” said Martinez. “It’s a commitment issue. If you pay your $10, then you’ll show up, meet other runners and develop lasting relationships.”

Another key to the club’s longevity is serving the running community as it evolves over time.

Most runners are not elite, as club vice president Sarah Williams of Allen Park recognized. “We’re trying to get new runners in here,” she said. “The goal is to create a sense of community and serve people just starting out.

“ In the beginning this club had a lot of fast runners,” she continued. “Now we call ourselves ‘runners and walkers’ and make sure nobody runs by him- or herself the first time. Everyone’s starting from somewhere. We’re trying to get everybody connected; that’s the main goal.”

The first Wednesday of every month, the run is held in different downriver location, which has helped to attract new members. Many newbies echoed the sense of camaraderie that is the hallmark of Downriver Runners.

“This is an awesome group of people,“ said Toby Alsobrook of Melvindale. “They have a ‘nobody left behind’ mentality. Whether you’re a firsttimer or you’ve been out 100 times, these people will inspire you to do very well.”

“Being part of this group has helped me hold myself accountable for my runs,” said Katie Lakin of Allen Park. “It keeps me pushing my pace to stay with my group and prevents me from slacking off if I am feeling lazy.”

Choi Clarke of Detroit likes to bounce between running groups, but counts Downriver Runners among her favorites. “It’s a fun community,” she said.

“A lot of us run in different groups, so we just kind of transfer the energy from each group, every week. It’s good to see different places, reconnect, motivate each other and keep ourselves accountable. It gets a little bit addicting. The runner’s high is real!”

Anthony Targan is a regular contributor to Michigan Runner magazine.

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Ann Arbor Half Marathon: Keeping Pace

ANN ARBOR (4/3/16) — Running today is more than just lacing up and seeing where the toes can go. It isn’t even tracking mileage much anymore. In the social media frenzy, running is in the lead pack, keeping up with all the data and selfie-taking Joneses.

I was lucky to start running as a kid, long before social media, selfies and satellite tracking gadgets. I ran because all the neighborhood kids were playing games and I didn’t want to be left out. I ran track because my first coaches said I had something special and I didn’t want to be left behind. In high school I earned spots on state-qualifying relay teams because I didn’t want to be left in the dust … so I get it. The desire to set a goal, then do what it takes to keep up, is powerful. That’s why pacing races is so suited to me today.

Running is what I do. It’s part of my day much like brushing my teeth. If I miss a run I feel off, like something isn’t quite right. I connect with my most inner thoughts while running. I attend to my breath, pounding heart and sound of my stride. I run fast enough to cover some ground while mindful of na-

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ture, the views and other people experiencing life by the power of our own movements. So I go, keeping this daily commitment to stay on pace.

So when the phone call came asking if I’d be willing to pace the Ann Arbor Half Marathon, I said yes without hesitation. This would be a special way to experience its beautiful course. I paced the 8minute mile group to a spot on finish. It was inspiring to experience the race through the eyes of new goal-setting runners. It reminded me of where I had been myself.

So I ran with a sign on a stick, letting everyone see, to put your faith in the pace.

The fifth annual Ann Arbor marathon, half marathon, 10K and 5K runs all showcased the University of Michigan campus, city and “Big House” finishes in the U-M football stadium.

Matthew Popielarz, 24, of Ann Arbor ran away with the marathon, crossing first in 2:29:33. Chris Elsey, 30, of South Lyon was a distant second in

2:43:42; third-place Greg Kuhl, 20, of Canal Winchester, Ohio, was more than 10 minutes behind him in 2:53:52.

Pacing the women were Amanda Cooke, 35, of Columbus, Ohio, in 3:08:11, Michelle Magagna, 25, of Ann Arbor in 3:14:06 and Angela Taylor, 34, of Mercer, Pa., in 3:23:57.

Jake Kaspersky, 24, of Perrysburg, Ohio, won the half marathon in 1:15:14, followed by Ryan Rau, 35, of Brighton in 1:16:01. Kirstie Kniaziew, 41, of Leamington, Ontario, captured the women’s title in 1:27:00. Runner-up Valerie Thomasma, 33, of Byron Center was not far behind in 1:27:20.

Claiming the 10K were Brian Desmond, 24, of Ann Arbor in 34:13 and Amanda Weaver, 25, of Ann Arbor in 40:03. The 5K winners were Alex Williams, 31, in 18:49 and Sabreen Uddin, 40, of Canton in 19:16.

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Atwood Stadium Races, Flint

Atwood Stadium 5K and 10K, Hatfields Dominate. McCoys? Not So Much.

By Charles Douglas McEwen

The married couple from Flint, both 38, also won the Duo Award for fastest combined times in the two HealthPlus-presented races. So they went home with a lot of hardware. But that may not satisfy their three young daughters.

“They should be excited to see mom and dad bring home medals today,” said Kreg Hatfield. “But they always want us to win everything.”

“Our girls told me before we left, ‘‘If you guys don’t win, don’t come home!’” Carrie Hatfield said.

With the 5K starting of 7:45 a.m. and 10K at 8:30, Atwood let the Hatfields do both.

In the 5K, Kreg battled Chandler Lorf, 16, of Davison. In an all-out sprint over the final 100 yards, Lorf edged Hatfield,16:55 to 16:56. Ethan Hamilton, 15, of Grand Blanc was third in 18:05.

Lorf, who will be a Flint Powers High School junior this fall, and Hatfield have raced against each other in the past. “He usually beats me,” Lorf said. “I didn’t want him have bragging rights over me again.”

“He’s got good wheels,” said Hatfield of Lorf.

“He can do some damage over the next few years.”

Carrie Hatfield tangled with five-time Michigan Runner of the Year Lisa Veneziano, 51, of Fenton in the women’s races “I have run against Lisa since I was 11 years old,” Carrie said. “For 27 years we’ve had a friendly rivalry where we cheer each other on.”

“She has always been a great runner,” said Veneziano of Hatfield. “We were dueling back and forth a little today, like we always do.”

Veneziano edged Hatfield by nine seconds in the 5K, 18:26 to 18:35. Third-place finisher Jeannie Zuck, 43, of Flushing clocked 22:10.

“I gave it everything I had in the 5K,” Veneziano said.

“That was the fastest time I’ve run in a while, for sure.”

The Hatfields had it easier in the 10K. Kreg won by more a minute in 35:53. Next came recent Grand Blanc High School graduate Vince Popyk, 18, in 37:16 and Rodney Reneski, 49, of Goodrich in 37:31.

Photo by Charles Douglas McEwen

FLINT (7/16/16) — The Atwood Stadium Races presented by HealthPlus, Kreg and Carrie Hatfield won the Atwood Stadium Races 10K runs and were runners-up in the 5K.

Carrie Hatfield topped Veneziano in the women’s race, 39:18 to 39:50. Maddie Ribant, 49, of Flushing finished third in 49:05.

Last year Kreg Hatfield Kreg Hatfield swept the 5K (17:44) and 10K (37:19) for a combined time of 55:05. This year he ran almost a minute faster in 5K and more than a minute faster in 10K (35:53) for a combined time of 52:29.

He was happy with that and to see his wife run well. Carrie’s winning combined time was 57:13. “She ran like a beast!” Kreg said.

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Her secret to success? “I run with Kreg every day,” she said.

John Niven, 52, of Swartz Creek, who timed 18:06 for 5K and 37:54 for a 56:00 total, finished runner-up for the men’s Duo Award. Veneziano combined 58:16 made her runner-up for the women. Both were also masters champs in the Duo category.

For complete race results, visit http://gaultracemenagement.com.

“Kid Black Fedio,” bib 51, 63, of Fenton and Sophie Gravlin, bib 62, 47, of Holly and runner wearing bib 221 each ran both the 5K and the 10K of the Atwood Stadium Races.

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National Cherry Festival Races, Traverse City

Cherry Fest Boasts Winners All Along the Way

TRAVERSE CITY (7/9/16) — Race directors Michelle Elliott and Kathy Brege welcomed 3,500 runners to the National Cherry Festival 5K, 10K, 15K and Half Marathon, sponsored by Meijer, Cherry Bay Orchard, Chateau Grand Traverse and Priority Health. Runners enjoyed perfect race weather and beautiful Grand Traverse Bay views.

My winners — people who teach us important reasons why we run — included Charlie Deadman, 61, of Traverse City, who runs for stress release and to help with a lung problem. He ran with his son.

Charlie’s wife Margie, 60, walked and ran the 5K with her daughter.

Experts have told told them cancer hates oxygenated blood. Maggie deals with the disease and travels downstate for treatments.

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pounds and 55 points of blood pressure.

Lalene Kay, 60, from Berea, Ohio, a race volunteer, also ran the 15K. The retired music therapy professor from Wallace University near Cleveland runs to help balance stress. “Running helps us use kinesthetic brain cells and lets cognitive brain cells rest,” she said. “Everyone needs to use other parts of the brains to achieve

relaxation and stress release.”

Ask your doctor before starting any exercise program.

Mickey Fivenson, 74, of Traverse City, is a stroke survivor whose doctor credits running for his survival.

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The Schultz family from the Detroit area — Kris, 61; Jeff, 57; Suzanne, 55; Madison and Laura, both 21; and Sydney Shuyler, 25; are examples of happy families who run together. Grandma Nancy, 82, was the oldest festival finisher several years ago before she retired from running. Grandpa Ed, 88, a retired runner, had bypass surgery 15 years ago. A retired phys ed teacher, he has put in many miles of training. Mel Hewransky, 75, of Flat Rock has lowered his cholesterol, blood pressure and weight through running. Linda McConnell, 67, runs for better health and to set an example for her kids who run cross country in Mt. Pleasant.

Marlene and Chris Griffin, 59 and 60, of Traverse City, run because it is something they can do together. Shelly Abbring, 60, of Lowell has lost 20 pounds and dropped her cholesterol 50 points.

Allan Cleland, 86, of Traverse City had a stroke in 2013, then surgery to clear an artery. Walking the 5K helped keep him in condition. Ed Kocher, 66, of Pittsburgh loves running for the peace of mind it gives him, plus it helps with the wind control a professional trumpet player needs.

Kim Weese, 60, of Traverse City, who runs with her daughters, lost 20 pounds by running. Greg Olson, 48, from Kingsley, lost 50

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Alma Highland Festival Series of Races, Alma

Hollow Victory at Alma Highland Festival

ALMA (5/28/16) — Alma is a small town in central Michigan. My wife Barbara grew up there. On Memorial Day weekend, Alma College hosts the Highland Festival on its campus.

Everyone in the town seems to have some connection to the festival. There is a parade, arts and crafts fair, band and dance competitions plus athletic events.

The games include traditional Scottish contests such as the caber toss (akin to throwing a telephone pole) and a road race (5K run/walk and 10K run).

Every year we return there to reunite with Barbara’s family and enjoy the festival. Part of our ritual was to watch the parade. We would always reserve our spot in front of the Main Café with strategically-placed lawn chairs.

We knew many people in the parade. For example, on one of the floats was Dr. James Hall, a family doctor who lived next door to Barbara’s family.

He would sing with the Midstatesmen Barbershop Chorus as the float passed in front of us.

A 5K race always preceded the parade. After watching it for many years, I decided to run in it, right by my family on the parade route. They would all give me high fives as I ran past their reserved spot.

After several years of racing, I started to move up among the finishers in my age group. No matter how much I improved, Don Pavlik always beat me. I never met him and knew nothing about him, except

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his name was always ahead of mine in the rankings.

In the 2008 Highland Festival 5K, Don finished first in the men’s ages 55-59 division in 20:41. I was second in 21:54. He was 58 and I was 57 that year.

I was surprised in 2009 to win my division. It turned out Don had run in the newly-established 8mile race instead.

I knew in 2010 I would not have to worry about Don in either race, because he had “graduated” to the next age group. When results were posted I looked to see how he’d done. He had not run in either.

On July 23 that summer we received a near-hysterical phone call from Barbara’s mother in Alma.

She said Dr. Hall, their neighbor, had died in a plane crash. How? What? Where?

We eventually heard what had happened. Dr. Hall was with one of his patients on a small plane headed for the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. The Cessna 206 flew out of Alma Friday at 9 a.m. with five people on board: him, the patient, the patient’s wife, pilot and co-pilot. An hour into the flight, the pilot radioed air traffic control that the plane was having mechanical problems. They were over Lake Michigan heading northwest.

Due to strong headwinds they decided to turn back to Michigan. The plane did not make landfall.

It crashed into Lake Michigan eight miles west of

Ludington. Rescue efforts followed. Winds blowing at 18 mph produced choppy waves of two to four feet, which complicated the rescue effort. Two hours after the crash, the pilot was rescued. The other four did not survive.

Several days later, I read the names of the other people who had died in the crash besides Dr. Hall.

One jumped out at me: Don Pavlik, the superintendent of Alma Public Schools. Earlier that year, Don had been diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus.

It suddenly became clear to me why he was not at the festival race. I was sad to read this. Even though I had never met him, I considered him a friend in the collective Michigan running family.

I am reminded of Don Pavlik every time I go to Alma. The Alma Middle School has been renamed the Donald L. Pavlik Middle School in his honor. It stands near where Barbara’s brother lives.

I still run the Highland Festival Race every year.

But there’s not much competition for me anymore.

This year, I moved up to the 65-69 age division and won it. I was the only runner in it.

Michael Herberling, Ph.D., is a retired Air Force Lt. Colonel who teaches in the MBA program at the Baker College Center for Graduate Studies in Flint.

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St. Patrick’s Parade Corktown Race 5K, Detroit - March 13 - SE Striders Saturday Classic 10 Mile, Grandville - April 23 - SW Fifth Third River Bank Run 25K, Grand Rapids - May 14 - SW

Dexter To Ann Arbor Half Marathon, Ann Arbor - June 5 - SE Brian Diemer Family of Races 5K, Cutlerville - June 11 - SW Pictured Rocks Road Race Half Marathon, Munising - June 26 - UP Port City Run 5K, Frankfort - July 16 - NW HealthPlus Crim Festival of Races 10 Mile, Flint - Aug, 27 - SE Milford Labor Day 30K, Milford - September 3 - SE

Mt. Baldhead Challenge 15K, Saugatuck/Douglas - Sept. 10 - SW 5/3 Capital City River Run Half Marathon, Lansing - Sept. 18 - Central MetroHealth Grand Rapids Marathon, Grand Rapids - Oct. 23 - SW Wicked Halloween 10K, Plymouth - October 30 - SE

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Liberty Run, Canton

38th Annual

Runners Exercise Freedom at Canton Liberty Run

By Charles Douglas McEwen

CANTON (6/18/16) — Born in 1989 under communist rule in the old Soviet Union, Sergei Anderson treasures his liberty in the United States of America.

“I love living in the U.S. and Ypsilanti,” said Anderson, who moved to the states at age 8 and exercised his freedom to run wild at the Canton Liberty Run, capturing the 10K.

The former Eastern Michigan University runner, who is sponsored by the Ypsilanti Running Co., won by more than two minutes. But he had a battle during the early going. Dan Malcolm, 21, of Canton, led for much of the first three miles.

Then Anderson made his move.

“At three miles, right on the dot,” said Anderson. “He (Malcolm) looked like he was struggling running 5:50s (minutes per mile), so I decided drop a 5:20.”

Sergei Anderson won the 10K.

Ashley Brunning finished third among the women in the 10K.

Anderson pulled away swiftly but still had to contend with the course. “The last half is harder than the first,” he said.

“The last 5K was on a twisty, winding and hilly trail.”

Anderson finished in 34:56. Next came Malcolm in 37:13 and masters champ Kevin Courtney, 40, of Ann Arbor in 38:34.

“My goal was to go sub35 today,” said

Anderson, who has a 32:50 PR for 10K. “It was a great course. It felt like my cross country days.

“I want to thank (Ypsilanti Running Co. owner) Mike Nix and my training partner Frank Morris for their support,” he said.

Morris, 35, also sponsored by Ypsilanti Running Co., finished second in the 5K, then cheered on Anderson from the sidelines.

“Frank ran his best 5K and really worked hard,” Morris said.

Sunday November 13, 2016

The 5K turned into a battle of attrition.

“There was good-size group of us hanging together well beyond the one-mile mark, said Morris.

“Then we gradually broke up.” .

Morris, Evan Dunklee, 20, of Canton and Noah Dusseau, 16, of West Grove, Pa., all had a shot to win with a quarter-mile left.

Dusseau led at first, then Morris. Finally Dunklee surged and held the lead to the finish line.

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“I got an adrenalin boost and started kicking,” said Dunklee, who finished in 17:25. Close behind were Morris in 17:28 and Dusseau in 17:33.

“My training has been paying off,” said Dunklee, a junior at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids. “I liked the course. It was nice, flat and went into the woods a little.”

He also enjoyed the Canton Liberty Fest, of which the race as a part.

Lizz Germaine, 26, of Northville, also thought the event was awesome after the winning women’s 10K. “That’s the first time I’ve won a race overall,” she said. “People on the course said, ‘You’re in the lead. You’re the first girl.’ I just tried to stay there.”

Germaine won in 45:59, “a little slow compared to my normal,” she said. “But it’s really hot out.”

Next came Lemon James, 51, of Westland in 46:12 and Ashley Brunning in 47:35.

Lucia Alfaro, 19, of Belleville, won the women’s 5K in 20:03, followed by Claire McNally, 16, of Ann Arbor in 20:34 and Heather Dusseau, 46, of West Grove, Pa., in 22:39.

For complete results, go to http://cantonlibertyrun.com.

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Charlevoix Marathon Celebrates 10 Years, Record Turnout

By Tracey Cohen

CHARLEVOIX (6/25/16) – Nearly 2,000 runners and walkers competed in the 10th annual Charlevoix Marathon’s plethora of events, the largest turnout ever.

“It was a celebration for everyone involved,” said race director Ron Suffok, an event Mother Earth blessed with a calm, sunny morning with 60°s temperatures.

Kyle Barnes won the men’s marathon in 2:48:06, exactly seven minutes faster than runner-up Christopher Miller. Gregory Ingle (2:58:41) completed the men’s top three.

Laura Gillette led the women in 3:05:54, followed by Alexandra Leptich (3:07:59) and Brooke Kovacic (3:10:53).

Martin Schumacher and Valerie Petre topped the men’s and women’s masters in 3:00:11 and 3:29:54 respectively.

Kyle Mena, (1:11:55) crushed his men’s halfmarathon competition. Finishing 2-3 were Garrett Felber (1:20:28) and David Mccomb (1:24:38). Erik Wippler topped the masters in 1:28:25.

Jessica Gockley (1:25:25) edged Ashley Mitchell (1:25:36) in the women’s half, followed by Liz Watson (1:27:57). Jennifer McClure (1:37:04) paced the masters.

Kyle Verrett (35:42), Gary Greib (39:13) and Ryan Hafner (39:23) topped the men’s 10K runners. Leading the women were Jami Grant (40:45), Michelle Weymouth (42:07) and Melissa Bieri (44:27).

Greg Mcbride (18:39), Cliff Maginity (18:48) and Roger Send (19:04) crossed 1-2-3 in the 5K. Ava Maginity (21:11), Heather Shoecraft (21:28) and Kennedy Kibbey (23:11) led the women.

Among post-race celebrants was Navy veteran Sid Busch, who completed his half marathon to honor the life and work of Army Major Douglas Sloan, a Charlevoix native killed defending his country in Afghanistan in 2006.

On a personal note, my mother, Joanie Cohen, celebrated better health as a dedicated spectator. “Heaven on earth,” she said of the weekend and race itself.

“Every runner was made to feel special. No one wanted to leave,” she said.

For complete results and more information about next year’s races, visit http://charlevoixmarathon.com.

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Electric Bolt 8K Run, Ann Arbor

Trinh Takes Charge at Electric Bolt

By Charles Douglas McEwen

ANN ARBOR (7/31/16) — Cameron Trinh charged out to a huge lead in the Electric Bolt 8K Run and didn’t look back. The Ypsilanti resident, 22, won the race by nearly a minute.

“To be honest, I’d have liked some company,” Trinh said. “But I had the lead biker with me and we held a conversation. It was fun.”

Participants followed a serpentine course that started in Riverside Park, zipped up and down the Huron River on pedestrian paths, headed into the downtown area and finished on Fourth Street’s red bricks in front of the farmers market.

“We had great conditions,” Trinh said. “It was an awesome crowd, awesome community. I loved every minute of it.”

Trinh, who ran for Eastern Michigan University and is now working on his masters in biology there, timed 27:39.

Next came Frank Janssen, 27, of Ann Arbor (28:30) and top master Paul Mayer, 49, also of Ann Arbor (29:19).

Danielle Matusik, 44, of Chelsea led the women for the first half mile. Christina Draijer, 28, of Ann Arbor took over for the next mile or so. But at the finish, Sarah Swanson, 35, crossed first.

“She (Swanson) passed me around 3K,” Draijer said. “She opened a gap to the point where I couldn’t see her anymore. Then I almost caught her. Whew!”

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Charlevoix Marathon

Jacob Baker (bib 405), age 10, finished the 8K in 30:55, ahead of Drew Collette (bib 418), age 28, 30:56.

Swanson won the 8K in 33:51, followed by Draijer in 33:59 and masters champ Matusik in 36:55.

Teens ruled the 5K. Bertrand Chu, 15, who goes to Ann Arbor Huron High School, paced the men in 18:08. Recent Dexter High School graduate Alyssa Krolewski, 18, claimed the women’s title in 21:16..

“I’ve been top three and won my age group, but never the overall,” said Krolewski, who set a PR. “I was tired at the start and wasn’t sure how I would finish. But the course motivated me.”

Sal Desalvo, 44, (21:16) and Michelle Fields, 57, (24:27) led the 5K masters.

The Electric Bolt runs, coordinated by the

Ann Arbor Track Club and presented by the Electrical Training Alliance, are a fundraiser for Active Against ALS. “The Ann Arbor Track Club,” said president Mitchell Garner at the awards ceremony, “is proud to have partnered with the Electrical Training Alliance to put on this race.

“I always say every race is a win-win-win,” he continued. “It’s a win for you, the participants, because you’re improving your fitness. It’s a win for the spirit of volunteerism in our community — these races couldn’t be put on without wonderful volunteers like (race directors) Jackie and Joel Dalton. And it’s a win for our charities like ALS.” For complete results, visit racetimeservices.com.

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New Generation Carries On Steeplechase Tradition at Diemer Races

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Publisher’s Letter

MR – Half a Lifetime

By Art McCafferty

Many of you who subscribe to Michigan Running News have noticed we have included more graphics and integrated more video within the publication. Basically, we have decided to put additional resources into our digital publications and productions to better serve the growing digital consumer.

The frequency of Michigan Running News allows our clients immediate access to our nearly 10,000 readers.

Michigan Runner TV Videos

Drawing by Tytti Fallon

We began our video services in 2001 and have produced thousands of videos that have attracted millions of viewers. In 2015 we produced 385 videos, 268 of which are focused on running and track and field. We have continued our torrid pace, having put up over 300 videos so far this year.

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As you can see, while we have deemphasized the print side of our publishing company with this move, we have continued with the Michigan Runner brand in Michigan Running News and Michigan Runner TV.

Art McCafferty

his morning I read where Time Inc. was laying off 110 employees and putting additional revenue into digital sales. Digital publishers, Facebook and Alphabet have become the new darlings of advertisers and one of the reasons for declining print advertising.

GLSP is a small publishing company now in its 37th year. We have been facing the same challenges as the big boys. At the peak of our print era, we had five print publications as part of our product mix: Michigan Runner, Michigan Skier, Michigan Golfer, Indiana Runner and the Great Lakes Triathlete.

Michigan Runner is the last of our print products.

Indiana Runner and Great Lakes Triathlete were sold and Michigan Skier (later Great Lakes Skier) and Michigan Golfer each were shuttered after runs of nearly two decades.

Alas, Michigan Runner magazine now faces the same fate. This September/October 2016 issue is the last one. There are a variety of reasons for this move, but it all boils down to economics; our expenses have outgrown our revenues. Rising print and distribution costs, declining subscriptions and the crushing impact of new media (our own included) have finally caught up with MR. As an homage to MR, this issue contains articles from our past editors: Michael Duff, Dave

Foley, Jennie McCafferty and Scott Sullivan. Each has contributed substantially during his or her tenure and their stories bring back powerful memories. We also are bidding goodbye to a great writing and photographer crew, many of who have been with us from the start.

Of particular note, we would like to thank our longtime columnists Scott Hubbard and Tom Henderson, reporters and writers Douglas McEwen and Ron Marinucci and our photographers Kevin Rhea, Dave Meyer, Jim Forshee, Carter Sherline, Victah Sailer, Ted Nykiel, Greg Sadler and Pete Draugalis.

However, Michigan Runner will continue its mission in the digital world through the weekly email newsletter Michigan Running News and Michigan Runner TV videos.

Michigan Running News Our Michigan Running News has been online since the turn of the century. In the past 15 years we have produced 90 issues of Michigan Runner and 780 issues of Michigan Running News. We have also increased the reach of our newsletters by putting them on Facebook, thus allowing readers to catch up on past issues or research past races.

For our subscribers, we will be still providing copious amounts of information in our Michigan Running News, which archives the information on our Facebook site https://www.facebook.com/pages/Michigan-Runner-News/23049392035285. You can subscribe to this free service by emailing me at armccaf@glsp.com. In addition, subscribers can freely subscribe to our Michigan Runner Video Channel on YouTube.

Again, this has been a difficult decision for us, but we have had to subsidize the Michigan Runner magazine for the past two years and the future continued to look dire for the print product of MR. The journey continues.

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Editors’ Notes

Thanks for the Memories

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Michigan Runner: an Historical Perspective

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By Dave Foley

ichigan Runner magazine’s first issue appeared in April1979 and I was in the cover photo. You had to look closely to see me among the runners racing from the start line of the Clare St. Pat’s 10K.

Drawing by Larry Lewis

hirty-seven years ago an idea emerged which grew into a magazine runners throughout Michigan could rely on for information related to road running, recreational and/or competitive. It became known as Michigan Runner magazine.

During those formative years of the middle to late 1970s, thousands of people around the country began to participate in a lifestyle exercise that promoted healthy living. With the help of MR, running became the source for improved physical activity.

Runners joined others to participate in events focused on the evergrowing sport of road racing. This was before the Internet and social media. Road running or racing, at the time, was in its infancy and usually associated with more elite athletes.

Mike Duff

The big question in those early years for those of us who liked to run for health was how do we find information about organized running events that have been popping up all over the state? The running community was thirsty for this kind of information. In 1978 the idea was hatched.

Now, some 37 years later, the final chapter has been written. The print side has ended but MR will live on through the Internet. All the same good stuff we have enjoyed for the past 37 years. Hope you stay tuned for the next chapter.

Genesis

Co-founders Art McCafferty and I were friends at the time with a long professional association through our educational endeavors. I had been running for a few years to keep in shape and thwart off my genetic precondition of heart disease.

Running was recommended by Joseph Arends, a practicing preventive medicine doctor, who also wrote a medical column in MR during our first few years.

Art wanted to try his hand at it after seeing me enjoy it so much. He got hooked and so did I. One night after an early evening run in Ypsilanti, where we both lived, we were relaxing over a couple beers and began talking about how we might start a newspaper that would cover running events with interesting profiles, running news and a calendar of events.

Neither Art nor I knew much about the publishing business, although each of us had helped produce newsletters for our state educational organization.

What we didn’t know was how to storyboard and add graphics. Marilyn Koman, who did the graphic design for our educational newsletters, was invited to join us in this project. She agreed.

Art, Marilyn and I formed an LLC partnership and we were off and running … no pun intended. This was in 1978. Our first issue hit the streets in 1979. Art be-

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Drawing by Larry Lewis

By Mike Duff

More than trying to pick me out among the surging runners, I was excited to hold a magazine about Michigan running. What a great idea! Although national magazines like Runner’s World, The Runner and Running Times were available, they offered almost no information about running in our state.

Dave Foley

The running boom was just picking up steam, but for us northern runners finding races was a challenge. We’d learn about them through word of mouth and flyers picked up at races or running stores.

Michigan Runner changed all that. Within the pages of that first newspaper (its tabloid-style was more newspaper than magazine) was a schedule of races for the entire state and printed race blanks. Want to race? Everything you needed to sign up was in the race-blank ad printed in Michigan Runner.

And there were stories and race results. Before that, unless present at the race or reading about it in your local paper, the public had no idea what was happening.

In those pre-internet days, Michigan Runner, an idea birthed and produced

by Mike Duff and Art McCafferty, became the glue that brought the running community together. It was our voice, a forum to exchange ideas and means by which we learned about the icons of Michigan running like Mike McGuire, Herb Lindsay and Norma Harger.

Liking what I saw in this new publication, I contacted Art and asked if I could cover races. Now I found myself in the role of runner-writer and getting paid to cover events I planned to do anyway. I didn’t think it could get any better. But it did. In 1985, I succeeded Mike Duff as editor of the magazine.

As editor I had to figure out what would go in the magazine and who would supply the content. Until the computer era arrived in the 1990s, we relied on typewriters and the U.S. Postal Service to carry the load. Writers would mail stories to my Cadillac home, where I’d edit and send results to our Brighton production office, When features like the annual “Best of Times,” “Top 50 Road Races” and “Best T-Shirt” contest were running, my mailbox would get jammed. For these features, blanks were printed in MR and readers asked vote their preferences.

When we elected our “Michigan Runner of the Year,” I would get fistfuls of ballots every day for weeks. We wanted the magazine to be a true representation of the running scene, so we asked you for your votes, comments and editorial submissions. And you responded.

Creating an editor’s column for every issue at times proved daunting. If I don’t write a “how to run better” piece, how much material was there? I pressed on, using each column to explore different aspects of what it meant to be a runner. I managed to crank out about 120 of these until in 1999, when I realized I had nothing new to say.

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‘Covering’ the MR

Hello Goodbye

By Jennie McCafferty

By Scott Sullivan

For this final issue, I paged through every issue since 1979 and discovered some interesting things:

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Jennie McCafferty

ave Foley turned over editor responsibilities to me in 1999 and I served in that role for 16 issues, not quite three years. Since then I’ve updated the calendar for each issue and looked for cover photographs through thousands of photos from Carter Sherline, Victah Sailer, Pete Draugalis, Greg Sadler and Scott Sullivan.

I’ll never forget the challenge presented by one particular cover for the January 2008 issue after the Men’s Olympic Marathon Trials in November 2007. Both Rockford’s Dathan Ritzenhein and Brian Sell, training with Hansons-Brooks Original Dis-

• Cheryl Flanagan won the Old Kent River Bank Run in 1979 with a time of 1:36:39. As Cheryl Bridges in 1971, she had set a women’s marathon world record of 2:49:40. Cheryl’s daughter, Shalane Flanagan, is on the U.S. Olympic marathon team this year.

• The River Bank Run 25K served as a qualifier for the 1988 U.S. Women’s Olympic Marathon Trials. Those who ran 1:30 or faster attained an automatic qualifying time. So, which women met that qualifying standard?

Only one: Diane G. Brewer ran 1:28:39 and captured the River Bank Run title that year.

• Wilma Rudolph, 1960 Olympic Champion in three events, conducted a clinic in spring 1983 as part of the Midland Heart of Michigan 10K.

• Fred Lebow, founder and race director of the New York City Marathon, was the featured speaker at Michigan Runner’s second Race Directors Workshop in spring 1988.

• Two runners who were winning races in the early 1980s have continued to win races and age groups through the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. Doug Kurtis has run around the world and Ella Willis has run mostly in Southeast Michigan near her Detroit home, but each appeared in Michigan Runner pages throughout the decades.

tance Project, qualified for the Olympic Team. I was covering the race in New York City and noticed

Between Michigan Running News and Michigan Runner TV, I’ll still be seeing you at the races.

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Drawing by Tytti Fallon

Drawing by Tytti Fallon

that Central Lake’s Ryan Shay wasn’t among the runners as the race made loops around Central Park. Later that day, we found out that Shay, the USATF Marathon Champion in 2003, had died of a massive heart attack about five miles into the race. The challenge was to present a happy story and a tragic story on the same cover.

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t’s no news print is perilous. My late father-in-law — who wrote for the A.P. in Detroit when the Motor City was in its heyday and was an editor for the thendaily Grand Rapids Press — warned my wife-to-be “Print is dinosaur” 40 years ago.

So it’s no surprise Michigan Runner publisher Art McCafferty has decided to turn the final page on our print product. What’s remarkable is the 37-year run MR has had. Some “dinosaur”!

Scott Sullivan

Dave Foley — editor from 1985 to 1999 — shares in his column memories I don’t have. Dave set the template, got me started (his career’s lone blemish) here and continues writing wonderfully. For those things I’m grateful.

As a newspaper editor, writer and photographer who loves running, I started writing free-lance pieces for MR in 1996. Jennie McCafferty stepped up as editor when Dave stepped down, but had better use for her skills.

I started as managing editor in 2001. When I showed that I couldn’t manage, Art made me editor.

What a ride it’s been. Two of my favorite axioms in this business have been, “I would have written it shorter but I ran out of time,” and “The best stories are the ones you can’t tell.” No one’s got rich monetarily. But the wealth of friendships and experiences I’ve enjoyed through MR for 20 years transcend measure.

The writers and photographers who contribute to Michigan Runner always have been its lifeblood. So are you, our readers. I am humbled by and grateful for my opportunity to be a conduit. You’re the best!

In West Michigan, where I used to run daily before I trashed my right foot and ankle, I still get to cover races, see and hug sweaty, longtime friends. We swap lies and memories, now and then over beverages, and partake of life’s celebration.

The running friends I’ve made elsewhere — communicating, of necessity, more by email — have meant more to me when I do see them. Whatever is next for MR, let’s stay in touch.

In the beginning was the word. People still need stories. Always will. They are how we make sense of ourselves, connect phenomena that otherwise may seem random, transmit and build upon what’s been learned before us and will be after. Sharing stories, by whatever media, are how we ensure our children continue a culture that is loving, rich and sustaining.

We refine ourselves into obsolescence. then must find new forms. Children of all ages (I was in my 40s) “discover” running, which has been here as long as man. We pursue it, learn, improve, peak before we know it … Then, as our years advance and physical skills decline, we pass on our our passion to generations who will replace us. It’s a cycle to celebrate, not lament.

Good things beget good things. What is next for our “MR people”? I’m an optimist. There is always a need for those who have good to give.

- MR Michigan Runner

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600 Writers, 1979-2016

ugh Acton, Jim Aden, Ann Agens, Joy Alexander, Karrie Alexander, Sue Allen, Frank Alongi, Dave Alsager, Kermit Ambrose, Mark Anderson, William A. Anderson, Dale Arbour, James Aren, Al Arend, Dr. Joseph Arends, Susan Armelagos, Eric Arnold, David P. Arse, Mary Arthur, Tim Arthur, Paul Aufdemberge, Richard W. Austin, Ron Austin, Bill Axtell …

Marilyn Bachelor, Ron Baker, Gene Balawajder, Joe Baldwin, Rich Baldwin, Alan Banaszak, Irv Barat, Dave Barbe, Brian Barkey, Brenda Barrera, Lee Barrie, Tom Barson, Ray Bartels, Jim Bauman, Bob Baumel, Chuck Beachneau, Bob Beaudin, Patti Becher, Mike Beckman, Ron Berby, Jack Berry, Dave Bertolotti, Jr., Linda Bertolotti, Roger Beukema, John Bjorkquist, Karen Blackford Hubbard, Bill Blake, Charlie Blanchard, Marc Bloom, Adam Blust, George Bocci, Joe Boeke, Doug Bojanen, Craig Borr, Jimbo Boyd, John Boyle, Barry Bradford, Gayle J. Brady, Rick Bragg, Vicky Bragg, Allan Brennan, Keith Brophy, Tim Broe, Susan Brown, Keith Buehrer, Randall Bulla, Becky Bundy, Amby Burfoot, Brian Burt, Lizzie Burt, Ann Bush, Diane Bussa …

Dan Campbell, Craig Carlson, Paul Carlton, Jim Carter, Rick Chambers, Andy Chapelle, Dick Chapin, Bernie Chapman, Jo Charles, Brian Charlton, Dennis Chase, Teresa Chase, Laurel Chihak, Trace Christenson, Susan Christian, Marvin Cinnamon, Nancy Clark, Virginia Clark, Dr. Thomas J. Clay, Travis Clement, Tom Clock, Tom Cocozzoli, Tracey Cohen, Mike Collins, Veronica Constantine, Michael Conwell, Cynthia Cook, Nancy Cooper, Chip Corwin, Renee Cousino, William Coutant, Tom Coyne, John Craig, Paula Crowe, Jeff Crumbaugh, Glenn Cumberland, Jeffrey A. Cunningham, Julie Cunningham …

Eric Dammeyer, Paul Daniel, Chris Danielson, Mike Davis, Skip Davis, Maury Dean, Terry Dean, Pat DeBoer, Bob DelCampo, Rick DeLorme, Peter Derby, Paul Derwich, Frank DeSarmo, Sara Deuling, Keith Dickinson, Marybeth Dillon, Noelle Dixon, Dogfoot, Sarah Donovan, Tom Doran, Mike Doughtery, Kent Downing, T.C. Doyle, Don Dualb, Susan Duda, Mike Duff, Sharon Duff, Tom Dusbiber, Bob Dyer, Bruce Dyer …

Bill Eastman, Larry Eder, Marjorie Eger, Kris Eggle, Jason Elmore, Cal Emerson, Dave Emery, Annie English, Barry Estill, Tony Ettwein, Lorraine Evans, Patricia Evans, Penny H Evans, Sherlynn Everly, Ron Eyer …

Chris Fedowa, Brianne Feldpausch, Glenn Feldpausch, Douglas Finley, Gale Fischer, Barry Fish, Jim Fisher, Rick Fitzgerald, John Fitzpatrick, Mickey Fivenson, Jeanne Foley, Michael Foley, Ann Forshee-Crane, Alfred Fox, Tom Fraser, Bob Frey, Dave Furey …

Mike Gabriel, Jeff Gaft, Emily Gail, Jeff Galloway,

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John Gault, Jim Gaver, Pam Gaver, Andrea Gavriloff, Sid Gendin, Fred Germaine, Fred Gerow, Malcom D. Gibson, Mike Glass, Rudy Godefroidt, Bob Godfrey, Stephen Goldman, John Goodridge, Carleen Gordon, Dave Gorgon, Dean Graham, Jack Grant, Pam Graver, Richard Griffis, Bob Grover, Emily Gunn, Ron Gunn, Jerry Guntsch, Stormi-Ann Guntsch, Brian Guth, Dennis W. Guzik …

Jim Haase, Larry Hagedorn, Jim Haose, Ted Halm, Barry Hamilton, Scotty Lee Hamilton, John Hanchon, Ed Hancock, Mark Haney, Heather Dyc Hanks, Paul R. Hannuksela, Michael Hansen, Baron C. Hanson, Greg Harger, Norma Harger, John Harpst, Kathy Harrison, Phil Hartman, Dr. William Hass, Paul Hay, Ken Head, Stewart Healey, Marty Heator, Michael Heberling, Tom Henderson, Wally Herrala, Dan Hickey, Dave Higdon, Hal Hidgon, Diane Himelbaugh, Dave Hinz, George Hirsch, Tom Hoad, Dick Hoekstra, Mike Hogan, Dave Hoger, Karen Holappa, Jackie HollandDecker, Jeff Hollobaugh, Tom Holloway, Ginger Huard, Scott Hubbard, Steve Hulst, J.A. Hunter …

Fred Immer …

Kathy Jacobs, Greg Janicki, Jeanne Jeffrey, Don Jekel, Tom Jewiss, Bill Johncock, Dean Johnson, Dorothy Johnson, John C. Johnson, Laura Johnson, Tyrin Johnson, Brian Jones, Diane Jones, Mark Josaltis, Suzanne Joseph, Ralph Judd …

Jeff Kalember, Bill Kalmar, Don Kane, Steve Kearney, Bill Keller, Katie Kelly-Noble, Michael Kelly, Daniel Kelsey, Don Kern, Bill Khan, Mark Klein, Phil Komar, Marilyn Komon, Mike Kowal, Dr. Edward H. Kozloff, Rhonda Kraai, Dick Krause, Karyl Kraushaar, Don Krick, Bill Krul, Bob Krul, George Kuhn, Scoop Kuipen, Doug Kurtis …

Pat LaCross, Geoff Lane, Mary Jo LaPlante, Jim Laurie, Rick Lax, Chris Lear, Dick Lessard, Dr. Jerome Levine, Hal Lewis, Terry Lewis, Dallas Lincoln, Desiree Davila Linden, Herb Lindsay, Helmut Linzbichler, Grant Lofdahl, Jack London, Phil Loomis, Jon Lorway, Tom Lowen, Sheryl Lozicki …

Dr. Richard Mach, George Mader, Dr. Timothy Maggs, Richard L. Magin, Dr. Richard Maloff, Rick Mannen, Bill Manning, Paul Marcotte, Ron Marinucci, Bob Martin, William R. Martin, Gordon Massman, Stephen G. Mather, Ben Mathis-Lilley, Bob Maybouer, Jerry Mayer, John McCabe, Art McCafferty, Dennis McCafferty, Jennie McCafferty, Dr. Larry McCafferty, Bill McCloud, Bob McCracken, Laura McDonnell, Charles Douglas McEwen, Lorna McEwen, Mike McGlynn, Pamela Joy McGowen, Jim McGraw, Terry McHoskey, Mike McIntyre, Charles McKelvey, Paul McKelvey, Arthur McLendon, Riley McLincha (the Drubbler), Tom McMahon, Donna McNicol, J.D. McPeak, Doug Melvin, Jerome A. Meredith, Robert Merkel,

Dave Meyer, Greg Meyer, Jay Meyer, Linda Midler, Dr. Gabe Mirkin, Mark Misch, Larry Mishon, Bob Misner, Joseph Moch, Frank Moelich, Michael Moilanen, Roger Mollencopf, David Monti, Roger Moon, Keith Moore, Sara Moore, Terry Moore, Gary Morgan, Paul Morgan, Steve Morse, Dan Mulhern, Brent J. Murphy, Colleen Murphy, Rick Murphy, Annette Murray, Jim Murray, Bill Musial, Bill Mutch, Larry Myers …

Betty Naegele, Sharon Naughton, Ann Neff, Jim Neff, Doug Nelson, Paul Nilsson, Archie Noon, Janet Northrop, Susie Nostrant, Scott Novak …

Tim O’Brien, Bob Olson, Greg Orman, Donna Orrin, Greg Osmun, Margaret L. Ott, Dave Otwell, Al Owens …

Dave Padgett, Dale Painter, David Painter, Brian Pakalian, Tim Pare, Chip Parham, David Parham, Laurel Park, Dave Parker, Bob Parks, Sue Parks, Stephen Paske, Dick Pastula, Charlotte A. Paul, Colette Peckham, Dave Peele, Tim Pendell, Tim Penning, Mike Persak, Stephen Peske, Karl Peters, Jerry C. Peterson, Walter Pettifor, Al Phillips, Bernice Phillips, Sue Pittman, B.L. Pollard, John Porter, Carol Potter, Dennis Pruder, Jeff Pullen, Becca Putans …

Barney Rae, Dennis “Bullet Man” Raineau, Bill Ramsey, Bob Ramsey, Donna Rapp, Gary Reffitt, Francis P. Reid, Melody Reifel, Dean Reinke, Scott Remsing, Dan Reynolds, Andy Rheude, Ronald Rich, Bob Richards, Mara Richters, Tim Riley, Herb Ritsema, Brad Ritter, Pam Roark, Terry L. Rock, Chris Rode, Brian Rogers, Kim Rogers, LeAnne Roland, Dave Rommelmann, Jeanne Rosinski, Lonnie Ross, Robert Russell …

Victah Sailer, Robin Sarris-Hallop, Dennis Schaefer, Gordon Schafer, Joanna Scharf, Lonnie Schick, W.J. Schipper, Doug Schooler, Jennifer Schooler, Dr. Sherman C. Schultz, Thomas H. Schumaker, Bob Schwartz, Bill Scott, Todd Seage, Herb Seegert, Bob Seif, Doug Seville, Bonnie Sexton, Bob Shaffer, Mary Sheltraw, Carter Sherline, Mary Sherry, Sue Shields, Butch Short, Thomas E. Shumaker, Bob Siegel, Jr., Bill Sill, Scoop Skuipen, Dan Slee, Sarah Smallheer, Joe Smetanka, Bill Smith, Graham Smith, Kris Smith, Mark Smith, Larry Snelling, Frank Soby, Walt Sorg, Shannon Sowell, Bill Spencer, Jan Spitler, Bob Sprenger, Joe Spurgeon, Ryan Squanda, Herb Squires, Molly Stack, Ralph Stadelman, Anne Stadler, Mike Stallsmith, Nicholas Stanko, Peggy Steig, Rachael Steil, Tamara Steil, Terry Steinmann, Randy Step, Cindy Stewart, Laurie Stewart, Vic Stoeffler, Bob Stone, Nancy Story, Jack Strausman, Scott Sullivan, Tom Sullivan, Larry Sundberg, Marlene Sundberg, Cathy Susan, Kris Swanguarin, Donna Swanson, John R. Swanson, Rick Swanson, Jim Szilagyi …

Anthony Targan, Dave Tattan, Kendal Taylor, Writers, continued on p. 23

Foley, continued from p. 20

At that point I resigned and turned the editorship over to Jennie McCafferty.

In 2005 I began the column again, having found after four decades of being a runner, I had new perspectives to share.

It may be Michigan Runner magazine has reached a point where competing with “as it happens you can read about it” internet-driven media is no longer feasible for a print publication. I hope MR will find new vitality as it becomes a part of the online Michigan Runner.

My long association with this magazine did much to shape my life as a runner and writer. Art, Jennie, Mike and Scott (Sullivan, current editor), I am grateful for your efforts these many years to provide state runners a first-class publication. I’m sure I reflect the thoughts of many when I say, “Thanks for the memories.”

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Larry Taylor, Lisa Taylor, Denise Taylor-Moon, Mike Terrell, David Thomas, Kevin Toby, Rich Tompkins, Ellie Tonkin, Dennis Topolinski, Deborah Torres, Ryan Towles, Beth Trudgeon, Bob Trudgeon, Brian Tullett, Kacey Tully …

Loren Ulrich, Tom Ulrich, Steve Underwood, Bob Urdiales …

Nancy Vader, Bill Valentine, Carol Van Spybrook, Ken Vandenberg, Bruce VanderMuelen, Louie VanStaveran, Jeff VanStrien, Dr. Curt VanVoorhees, Mike VanWagoner, Fred Vanhala, Charlene Vires, Vicki Voisin, Tom Vranich …

Dianne Warner, Amanda Weaver, Steve Webster, Dwayne Weeda, Graham Wellman, Mike Wendland, Dave Wenzel, Nancy Wherritt, John White, Jim Whitman, Randy Williams, Bob Wilson, Brian Wilson, Heidi Wilson, Steve Wissink, Wayne Witt, Mary Wolff, Gary Wolgamott, Kaye Woodruff, Rod Wortley, Dan Wright, Mike Wykes, Buzz Wynbeek …

Mark Yearn, Paul York, Ken Young, Fritz Yunck …

Jim Zaleski, Steve Zemper, Dave Zimmerman, Pamela Zinkosky, Christine Ziskovsky, Michael Zuidema, Brandon Zylstra, Rosie Zylstra.

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Duff, continued from p. 20

came publisher, I became editor and Marilyn did the production. I never considered myself qualified to be an editor. But I took it on, I suppose, to help make some sense of this new adventure publishing company we were embarking on.

Paper Trail

Remember when paperboys actually delivered papers to your doorstep? That was our model in the beginning. We spent hours identifying where races where being held. Once we knew, we packed up the car, kids and all, and off we went. MR newspapers were everywhere. Our kids were the best paper kids you could ask for.

Circulation jumped … undocumented as it were. In the print business, as we learned, circulation drives the industry. A big “aha” moment was when we learned advertising pays the bills and editorial grabs readers’ attention. With that in mind, working out of own homes we began to figure out what it would take to start a business. Account receivables were the furthest thing from our minds. We didn’t have a plan to bill and receive payments. We actually didn’t have a business plan.

We worked hard. It was a cumbersome process. My wife Chic and I spend many nights sitting on our living room floor sorting out billable clients, the few we had in the beginning. Slowly we began to make a footprint.

Michigan Runner, Michigan Golfer, Michigan Skier and Michigan Travel. In addition, GLSP, via the Internet, publishes five different TV shows: Michigan Golfer, Michigan Runner, Michigan Skier, Michigan Travel and Running Canada as well as four separate newsletters, all focusing on running, skiing, golf and travel.

That is amazing, considering our meager beginnings.

Michigan Runner and the other GLSP publications have been blessed with quality staff, writers, columnists and supportive readers over the past 37 years.

2016: Saying Goodbye

So here we are today, looking at the end of nearly four decades of print publishing. I would not have envisioned the longevity of this adventure. As the first editor, I found myself in a position of how do I do this? I had a B.A. degree in language arts but writing was not high on my list. I never considered myself doing this.

But the dream was there.

Art helped me make that dream start and flourish. I continue to cherish the times Art expanded the boundaries of what we could accomplish in our early business venture. He is a visionary, a kind, compassionate tell-itlike-it-is person with a personality that could fill Ford Field with honesty and humor. I will always be indebted.

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New Partners

Interest in running continued growing in the late ‘70s early ‘80s. MR was now the go-to pub for running information. We began to see other emerging markets in golf and skiing. Jim Neff (skiing) and Dave Foley (running) were already writing and promoting their sport.

Art and I asked them to come on as partners to help expand our vision and upgrade the quality of writing.

On the golfing side another name was emerging.

We welcomed Terry Moore — an accomplished golfer, golfing entrepreneur and someone we knew and respected from our former professional careers — as a partner. Dave followed me as editor and the editorial side grew in quality and purpose.

Jennie McCafferty, Art’s wife, followed Dave and the current editor, Scott Sullivan, has since followed.

Art, Jim, Dave, Terry and I were the backbone of MR. Sometime in the mid-‘80s we changed our publishing company from Last Chance to Great Lakes Sports Publishing Co. From then on it was known as GLSP.

GLSP went on to publish Michigan Runner, Michigan Skier, Michigan Golfer, Great Lakes Triathlete and Indiana Runner. The only three to survive were MR, MS and MG. All have taken different paths to success.

Terry, Jim, Dave and I left GLSP in 2001 on good terms. In the mid-’90’s Jennie began to take a more active role. When it came time for me to depart, she was the perfect person to partner with Art to carry on the Michigan Runner/GLSP tradition.

During the emergence of the Internet in the ‘90s GLSP began to grab a share of that market due to the vision and encouragement of our publisher, Art McCafferty.

Due to Art’s initiative, GLSP has grown into a major player in the Internet market. Currently, it publishes (online)

Sunday, October 23, 2016 11:00 am

Dan Jilek 5K Run/Walk

Ann Arbor Gallup Park, Maas Shelter

• Free picnic after the run • Awards Register: http://tiny.cc/puswdy Contact: Joyce Bayma jbayma@gmail.com 248-709-8417 Michigan Runner

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In This Issue

Publisher and Chief Executive Officer

Art McCafferty artmccaf@glsp.com Scott Sullivan scott@glsp.com Editor

Jennie McCafferty jennie@glsp.com Associate Publisher

Dave Foley Mike Duff

Editors Emeritus

Carter Sherline carter@fotoview.net Senior Photographer

Paul Aufdemberge Ian Forsyth Tom Henderson Scott Hubbard Laurel Park Robin Sarris Hallop Rachael Steil Columnists

Tracey Cohen Jason Elmore Bob Godfrey Heather Dyc Hanks Jeff Hollobaugh Dean Johnson Bill Kahn Contributors

William Kalmar Dr. Edward H. Kozloff Doug Kurtis Grant Lofdahl Ron Marinucci Riley McLincha Charles D. McEwen Jim Neff Bob Schwartz Bob Seif Bob Shaffer Nick Stanko Anthony Targan Kacey Tulley Cregg Weinmann Michael Zuidema

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Online: Photo Gallery

At the Races

Peter Draugalis Gary Morgan Kevin Morris Dane Robinson Greg Sadler Victah Sailer Erin Wilkinson Jeff Zita

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Kona Run Photos by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios Motor City Triathlon

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AATC Summer Mini Meet

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Southfield Soulstice Run

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YMCA Father’s Day Runs

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Great Beer Run

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Ypsilanti Color Run

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Tri Goddess Tri

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Ann Arbor Firecracker 5K

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U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Track & Field

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Cheryl Clark

Chief Financial Officer

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Michigan Runner Photo Gallery - September / October 2016

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Gallup Gallop

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Dart for Art Photo by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios Battle of Waterloo

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Olympic Games, Rio

Photo by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios

Photos by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios Photos by Victah Sailer / photorun.net

About the cover: Jake Riley (12th, 29:06) and Brendan Gregg (8th, 28:56), Hansons Brooks, compete in the 10,000 meter run, U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Track & Field, Eugene, Oregon, July 1, 2016.

Photo by Victah Sailer / photorun.net.

Kona Run, Northville, June 11, 2016

© Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios

Photos by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios

© Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios

© Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios

Malik Jordan of Westland easily won the 5K in 16:55.

He was nearly two minutes ahead of runner-up Nathan Hayes.

Natalie Purcell of Grand Blanc, age 16, won her age group in the 10 mile with a time of 1:25:03.

Sheyonna Watson (bib 2354) of Ypsilanti, finished the 5K in 30:29. Also, pictured are Zac Deters (bib 2330) of Wyandotte, timed in 29:59, and Richard Pointe (bib 2199) of Harrison Township, who finished in 30:24.

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Motor City Triathlon, Detroit, June 12, 2016 Photos by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios

Alexandria Darin of Royal Oak gets ready for the swim in the sprint triathlon.

Crystal Tyler of Southfield celebrates finishing the sprint triathlon in 2:10:27.

Ann Arbor Track Club Summer Mini Meet, June 14, 2016

Photo by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios

Diane Flasch (bib 103) leads a pack during the 5,000 meter run. Others in the pack are Wally Hayes, (bib 119), Nessan Kerrigan (bib 124), Cayla Eckenroth (bib 109) and Michael Young (bib 108).

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Southfield Soulstice Run, Southfield, June 18, 2016 Photo by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios

Rufnners are read for the start of the popular Southfield Soulstice Saturday evening 5K.

Plymouth YMCA Father’s Day Runs, Plymouth, June 19, 2016

Photos by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios

These fathers celebrate Father’s Day with the 5K Run. Photo left: Nate Petrosky of Plymouth (bib 1842) runs the 5K in 30:39 to beat his dad, Tim Petrosky (bib 1841) by 2 seconds.

Photo right: Superman Scott Cabble of Canton gets a boost at the finish line from a smaller superman to finish in 30:05.

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The Great Beer Run, Northville, June 25, 2016 Photos by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios

These runners demonstrate the point of the Saturday evening Great Beer Run-- having fun.

Photo left: Suzanne Shoffner of Ann Arbor finishes in 23:54.

Photo right: Alyssa Cardoso of Redford (bib 139) chases runner with two phones and no visible bib.

Ypsilanti Color Run, Ypsilanti, June 25, 2016 Photo by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios

Times were not recorded and runners can’t be identified, but we do know the results: runners had fun at the color run.

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Tri Goddess Tri Women’s Only Triathlon, Grass Lake, June 26, 2016 Photos by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios

Apprehensive triathletes adjust goggles just before the swim leg of the triathlon.

Ann Arbor Firecracker 5K, Ann Arbor, July 4, 2016

This triathlete is all smiles as she finishes the run leg of the triathlon.

Photos by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios

Photo above: Kids decked out in red, white and blue anticipate the start of the Firecracker Kids Run. Photo right: Race participants enjoy hot-dogs for breakfast after the 8:00 am 5K Run/Walk.

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U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Track

Š Kevin Morris / photorun.net

Photos by Victah Sailer and Kev in Morris / photorun.net

k & Field, Eugene, Oregon, July 1-10, 2016

Donald Scott, Eastern Michigan alum, finished 7th in the triple jump, 54-9 1/4.

Š Victah Sailer / photorun.net

U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Track & Field, continues

Shannon Oskia (far left) and Amanda Eccleston compete in the semifinals of the 1500 meter run. Eccleston won her heat to qualify for the final. In that final, she missed third place and a place on the Olympic team by .03 of a second.

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Š Kevin Morris / photorun.net Š Victah Sailer / photorun.net

Andrew Evans of Portage, Michigan, qualified for the Olympics in the discus throw with a third place finish.

Mason Ferlic finished 5th in the 3,000 meter steeplechase final with a time of 8:30.03.

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Bobby Curtis, Hansons-Brooks, finished 10th in the 10,000 meter run, 29:01.

Donavan Brazier, wearing his new Nike gear, led his heat in the 1st round of the 800 meter run, but finished 4th and failed to advance.

© Victah Sailer / photorun.net

© Kevin Morris / photorun.net

© Kevin Morris / photorun.net

U.S. Olympic Team Trials, T& F, continues

University of Michigan alum, Craig Forys, finished 6th in the 3,000 meter steeplechase.

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Michigan Runner Photo Gallery - September / October 2016

© Kevin Morris / photorun.net © Victah Sailer / photorun.net

In one of the most exciting races of the trials, London Olympian Jeff Porter claimed a place on the Rio Olympic team in the 110 meter hurdles. Porter defeated Aries Merritt, the reigning Olympic champion, by .008 of a second.

One of the favorites to make the team in Rio, Leah O’Connor (in front) easily won her heat in the 3000 meter steeplechase to qualify for the final. An injury caught up with her in the final and she limped through the last lap, missing her chance to qualify for the Olympic team.

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Gallup Gallop, Ann Arbor, July 9, 2016 Photo by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios

Photo left: Among the 5K leaders at the Gallup Park bridge are eventual winner Serg Anderson (bib 175), Frank Janssen (bib 91) and women’s winner Erin Webster (bib 195).

Dart for Art, Ann Arbor, July 18, 2016

Photo by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios

Shannon Osika won the women’s elite mile in 4:40.8.

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Battle of Waterloo, Grass Lake, July 24, 2016

Photos by Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios

The Battle of Waterloo featues 10 legs, 42 miles of bike, run, swim, bike, run, carrying shoes and gear the entire time.

Heidi Iglayreger of Ann Arbor manages a transition. She finished in 5:02:14.

Bruce Smoler of Westland reached the finish line in 5:13:36.

Tom Fancy of LaSalle, Ontario won the battle in 3:27:16.

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Olympic Games, Rio, August 12Photos by V ictah Sailer / photoru n.net

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Opening Ceremonies, Maracana Stadium, August 5, 2016

Olympic Games, Rio, August 12 Photos by Victah Sail er / photorun.net

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Women’s Marathon, August 14, 2016 Desi Linden in 2nd, left of Visiline Jepkesho of Kenya.

Desi Linden leads the women’s marathon, eventually finishing 7th in 2:26:08.

Lanny Marchant, a Michigan State Spartan running for Canada, finished 24th, in 2:33:08.

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Catherine Ndereba (right) a coach of the Kenyan Olympic track and field team, poses with Kenya’s Women’s Olympic marathon team: (from left) Helah Kiprop, dnf; Jemima Sumgong, Olympic Champion in 2:24:04; and Visiline Jepkesho, 86th in 2:46:05.

Andrew Evans competes in the discus throw, finishing 16th with a throw of 61.87.

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Olympic Games, Rio, August 12 Photos by Vi ctah Sailer / photorun.net

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Sisters Cindy Ofili (lane 8) and Tiffany Porter (lane 3) both compete in the 100m hurdles final.

Jeff Porter, right, competes in the 110 meter hurdles semifinal, but did not advance to the final. Dmitri Bascou, left, took the bronze medal.

Porter competed for the University of Michigan and is married to 100 meter hurdle finalist Tiffany Porter.

Cindy Ofili, center, in white, competes in the 100 meter final, finishing 4th, just .02 second behind bronze medal winner Kristi Castlin. Ofili and her sister Tiffany Porter both competed for the University of Michigan and represent Great Britain in the Olympics.

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Nick Willis, a Univeristy of Michigan alum competing for New Zealand, won bronze in the 1500 meter final, following up his silver medal from the Beijing Olympics. Michigan alum Nate Brannen, competing for Canada, also ran in the 1500 meter Michigan Runner Photo Gallery - September / October 2016

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Master of the Lede – a Tribute to Charles Douglas (Doug) McEwen

Charles Douglas (Doug) McEwen’s first contribution to the Michigan Runner appeared in the October 1982 issue. Thirty four years, 91 locations, 668 race reports and 72 features later, Doug is still going strong with at least four race reports in this issue.

We have always found that his ledes entice us to read the full story.

Here’s a sample:

By Jennie McCafferty

© Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios

M

erriam-Webster defines “lede” as “the introductory section of a news story that is intended to entice the reader to read the full story.”

Dearborn Oktoberfest 10K, Dearborn: “How much is a second worth?” (December 1984)

The Great Train Race, Ypsilanti: “When he first decided to organize a 10K race with the finish in Ypsilanti’s historic Depot Town, Gary McKeever gave a lot of thought to the name of the race.” (November 1987) Westland Sesquicentennial 5-Mile Fun Run: “He was on his home turf. He knew every bend and curve in the road.” (November 1987) Fall Fitness Festival: “Is it ‘like mother, like daughter’? Or is it ‘like daughter, like mother’?” (December 1987)

Shillelagh, Flushing: “Those returning home from the Old Shillelagh 4-miler may have noticed a 40-car pileup on I-75 between Flint and Holly, the result of a snow squall, causing roads to ice up and cars to be blown off the road by high winds.” (May 1993) Hansons 5K Run and 1 Mile Walk, Sterling Heights: “When they stage a road race, running shop owners and brothers Kevin and Keith Hanson don’t waste much time.” (May 1993)

Lionel Express Run, New Baltimore: “Those competing in the Lionel Express Run often can hear the finish line before they see it.” (October 1993)

Doug McEwen rides the course at Miles for Mankind, Westland, 2016

Williamston Half Marathon: “Many came to bid a warm farewell to a close but frosty friend.”

(January 1994)

miles with great determination.” (August 1990)

People: Ann Boyd: “On Oct. 31, while she raced through the streets of Spain in the World Cup Marathon, Ann Boyd’s most productive running season came to an abrupt halt on the 17th mile.”

(May 1994)

Dodge Park 3 Mile, Sterling Heights: “It was brother against brother at this year’s Dodge Park 3 Mile.” (September 1990) People, John Gault: “He is a big, sturdy man riding along on an equally-sturdy mountain bike.”

(May 1991)

River Rouge Runner Memorial Run, “Yogi Berra might have called it, ‘deja vu all over again.’”

(October 1994)

Westland Five Mile: “It seemed like someone

People, Ella Willis: “Her running season couldn’t have started any worse, nor ended any better.” (May 1989) Scotty Hanton Bluewater Marathon, Port Huron: “It seemed almost – dare we say – easy.” (December 1989)

Doug McEwen interviews Doug Kurtis, winner of the

West Bloomfield Half Marathon: West Bloomfield Half Marathon, 1989.

“With bright sunshine and unseasonably warm temperatures, it seemed the perfect day to walk, to run or to just experience life had turned out the lights.” (August 1991) on planet Earth.” (June 1990) Belle Isle Run & Race Walk: “The day started out like a fuzzy caterpillar but ended up like a monarch butterfly.” (July 1990)

Police Flatfooters 10K, Clarkston: “The two police officers chased the college student for three

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Red October Run, Wayne: “Who says the twos have to be terrible?” (November 1992) Oxford Pioneer Days: “Most runners would consider a bright, sunny 68-degree day perfect weather for racing.” (November 1992)

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Run Through Rolling Hills, Ann Arbor: “They were a band of rugged men who came in a van from a distant land (Ontario) to run a race that was ‘Oh, so grand.’” (January 1989)

Photo: Michigan Runner Archives

People, Charlene Catalina: “First impressions can be deceptive.” (May, 1988)

Doug McEwen interviews Erin Finn, winner of the Fifth Third Turkey Trot, Detroit, 2013.

The tape recorder is a bit smaller than the 1989 version.

Women’s Only Run, Flint: ‘Most runners would relish the opportunity to lead a race down the red bricks to victory on Flint’s Saginaw Street.” (January 1995)

Burns Park, Ann Arbor: “She had hoped to keep it a secret.” (July 1996)

People, Laura Murphy: "She dropped out of the sky." (June 1997)

Heart Challenge, Madison Heights: “He knew the way.” (June 1997)

Domino’s Pizza Festival of Lights 5K, Ann Arbor: ‘No snow. No ice. No bone-chilling temperatures.” (January 1999) People, Brenda Lynch: ”Through the first half of the 1990s, Brenda Lynch, a Shakespeare teacher, had to endure the ‘slings and arrows of outrageous fortune’ in the form of chronic fatigue syndrome.”

(March 2000)

Corktown Run, Detroit: ‘Sixty-degree weather at the starting line and cold beer at the finish made for a festive mix at the 21st annual Corktown FourMile Run, held at Tiger Stadium.” (May 2003)

The Great Race, Elkhart, Indiana: "Who wants it more?" (July 2003) People, Amber Smith, Michigan High School Runner of the Year: ‘Get a good start and you might win the race.” (September 2003)

Mackinac Island Lilac Festival: ‘Fear, shock, betrayal: American soldiers may have felt all when the British landed on the west shore of this island and captured Ft. Mackinac during the War of 1812.”

(September 2003)

ship: ‘“It’s not the stairway to heaven, but that last big hill near the end of the Hidden Forest 5.5-Mile Trail Run sure can take your breath away.” (January 2006)

Goosed chased Pillow Talk, who shadowed the Lee Greenwood All-Stars, who pursued the Coney Island Crusaders.” (November 2011)

Fifth Third Bank Turkey Trot, Detroit: ‘The Grinch chased Santa Clause while three Christmas presents ran after the Grinch.” (January 2008)

Flirt with Dirt, Novi: “Wearing her collegiate soccer uniform, a former University of Toledo defender played offense at Flirt with Dirt presented by Running Fit.” (September 2014)

Capital City River Run, Lansing: ‘He may have run the longest 10 miles in the history of the 14th annual Capital City River Run, but Jason Jaloszynski still triumphed by two minutes.” (November 2006)

Volkslaufe, Frankenmuth: “Todd Snyder's first ever 20K was a doozie.” (September 2008)

Wicked Halloween Run, Plymouth: “Supermen, Batmen, Ironmen and other superheroes flexed their muscles, but Eric Stuber ruled the roads at the Wicked Halloween 10K Run.” (January 2015)

St. Patrick’s Parade Corktown Races, “Recession? What recession?” (May 2009)

People, Jeff Crumbaugh: “When running on the wooded trails near his home in northeastern Wisconsin, Jeff Crumbaugh generally enjoys getting close to nature. But on one occasion nature got too close to him.” (January 2010)

Fifth Third Bank New Year's Eve Family Fun Run and Walk, Detroit: “When Jeanne Bocci started the New Year’s Eve Family Fun Run/Walk in 1970, Richard Nixon was entering the third year of his presidency, the Beatles had recently broken up and the Detroit Lions had just completed a winning (104) season.” (March 2010) Dances with Dirt, Pinckney: ‘You've Been

Ann Arbor Marathon: “On a map, the course for the Ann Arbor Marathon resembled a toddler’s scribble on an Etch A Sketch.” (September 2013)

Moonlight Bootlegger 5K, Northville: “It started at the end of twilight and traveled into the depths of a humid night.” (July 2015)

Red Carpet Run, Detroit: “The Red Carpet Run began with Frank Sinatra playing on the P.A. system.” (November 2015) McLaren Festival of Races, Mt. Clemens: ‘Nine-year-old Gracie Youngblood heeded ‘Let’s Move’ call.” (July 2016)

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Rose Run, Jackson: “Going into the final mile of the Rose Run 5K, Christine Vincent felt content to settle for second place.” (September 2003) Labor Day “What is consistently 18.6 miles long, yet gets longer each year?” November 2003 People, Liz Lancaster: “Imagine setting a personal record in the marathon at age 66.” (January 2004)

Dexter Ann Arbor Run: ‘In 2001 and 2002, Serena Kessler, now 32, traveled around the world.” (July 2004)

National Cherry Festival 15K, Traverse City: ‘Old Mission Peninsula’s ‘Mt. McKinley’ doesn't rise 20,320 feet above sea level like Mt. McKinley in Alaska.” (September 2004)

Johnson Creek 5K Trail Run, Northville: “The second annual Johnson Creek 5K Trail Run challenged participants with muck as sticky as caramel, and mayhem, too.” (July 2005) Plymouth YMCA Father's Day Run: “Oops, she did it again.” (September 2005)

Crim Festival of Races, Flint: “He was just a teenager.” (November 2005) Run Thru Hell: ‘Never before have so many well-meaning souls voluntarily run through Hell.”

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The Legend, Laingsburg

Legend Half Marathon & 5M Beat the Heat

By Tracey Cohen

Independence Aquathlon

Matulis Repeats at Independence Aquathlon

By Tracey Cohen

HOWELL (7/3/16) — Idyllic conditions rang true for some 100 competitors at the 14th annual Howell Parks and Recreation Aquathlon and 1-Mile Open Water Swim.

Under mostly-sunny skies, air temperatures in the 60s and no breeze, 48 swimmers took to the two-loop jaunt around Thompson Lake.

© Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios

Mike Schuldinger, 54, of Waterford and Stefanie Fryer, 34, of Northville made fast work of the course, leading the men and women in 19:26 and 23:19 respectively.

Fryer, with barely time to catch her breath, swapped her swim cap for sneakers and commanded the women’s field in the aquathlon — which involved two 2K runs framing a 750-meter swim. Her 28:42 time trailed only the first six men.

Chris Matulis, 33, packed up his family for the two-and-half-hour car ride from St. Joseph to defend his 2015 men’s title title. His

Kelly Wehrmeister ran the 5 mile in 46:59.

24:48 finish got the job done by three seconds over Chad Mahakian, 30, of Farmington Hills.

Masters winner Roman Krzyzanowski, 45, of Plymouth was third in 25:06 “This is my favorite race of the year,” said Matulis, citing the run-swim-run format and family-friendly atmosphere. “It incorporates my two favorite events, and after the race we all get to enjoy the beach.”

Aimee Ferenc, 28, of Commerce Township (30:48) and masters champion Amy Skitzki, 42, of Livonia (30:53) rounded out the top three in the women’s aquathlon.

Krzyzanowski (23:08) and Lou Ann Dixon, 48, of Ann Arbor (23:25) paced the men’s and women’s masters in the open-water swim.

Complete results and information about next year’s events can be found at everalracemgt.com and howellrecreation.org.

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LAINGSBURG (8/6/16)-- Nearly 600 runners descended upon the Sleepy Hollow State Park trails for the 14th annual Legend Half Marathon and 5-Mile, the final race of RF Events’ 2016 Serious Series Challenge.

Kelly Wilson redeemed last year’s third-place half marathon finish to win the women’s title in 1:40:21. Top master Serene Griffin claimed second in 1:42:34 and Lauren Hutchens thirßd in 1:47:12.

Jake Chapman won the 5-mile in 28:38, followed by Kevin Rook in 28:54 and Benjamin Pankow in 30:51. Brian Jones topped the masters in 33:14.

Adeline Meyers won the women’s 5-mile in 38:27. Next came Kyle Wilson in 38:35. Masters champ Kris Kotula placed third overall in 40:40 .

After a week’s worth of hot, humid temperatures, runners were treated to a dry, sunny morning with temperatures in the 70s.

© Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios

Derek Gielarowski captured the men’s half marathon in 1:20:19. Next came Erik Potere in 1:21:28 and Matthew Pahl in 1:26:08. Clinton Lawhorne paced the masters in 1:32:48.

“What a great day,” beamed race director Randy Step, noting next year’s Legend races will start an hour earlier.

For information on the Serious Series Challenge, Legend 2017 and complete results, visit http://runlegend.com.

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A competitor in the Aquathlon runs by Thompson Lake during one of the 2K runs.

Pterodactyl Triathlon, Milford

Guertin, Depaul Soar in Pterodactyl Tri

© Carter Sherline / Frog Prince Studios

By Charles Douglas McEwen

Hannah Depaul transitions from the swim to the bike with a lead she kept through the finish.

MILFORD (7/20/16) — With its sweltering weather and blow-up dinosaurs, the Pterodactyl Triathlon brings a Mesozoic feel to Island Lake Recreation Area.

Kent Lake water temperatures were so warm this year swimmers couldn’t wear a wetsuit. Yet 455 athletes completed the half-mile swim, 12-mile bike and 5K run course.

The Pterodactyl is part of Running Fit’s T-Rex Series, which began with the Triceratops Triathlon in June and climaxes with the T-Rex Tri in August. In June married couple Frank Janssen and Christina Draijer swept the Triceratops men’s and women’s titles.

Thierry Guertin of Windsor and Hannah Depaul of Northville finished second in those respective races. At the Pterodactyl, they turned the tables.

“When I started, I was maybe 15th out of the water,” Guertin said. “By the middle of the bike course I took the lead. I had to push, knowing faster runners — like Frank (Janssen) and Roman (Krzyzanowski) — could overtake me in the 5K.”

Guertin salted away the victory with a strong run.“I didn’t dare look back,” he said. “I was running scared the whole time.”

Guertin crossed first in 1:00:45, followed by Janssen in 1:01:25, Krzyzanowski of Plymouth in 1:01:40, Zoltan Suranyi of Novi in 1:02:10 and Dan Lynch of Novi in 1:02:50.

It was Guertin’s first T-Rex series win. “Six years ago this was my second triathlon ever,” he remembered. “Since then, I’ve had seconds, thirds and held led races, but someone always has snatched it from me at the end.”

Ditto for Depaul, who dominated the women’s race from the start. The former University of Michigan swimmer opened a huge lead during the swim — over all of the women and men.

“It was a really good swim,” she said. “In June (at the Triceratops), a couple guys came out of the water ahead of me. Today there was no one.”

Several male triathletes did pass her, but Depaul maintained her lead on the women through the bike and run.

“The run was hard,” she said. “It didn’t feel good. My hamstrings started to cramp at the end. I was worried but able to hold it together.”

Depaul finished in 1:05:40. “I was trying to catch her,” said Christina Draijer, who finished second in 1:06:45. “But she was way ahead.”

Draijer hopes do better when she faces Depaul again in the T-Rex Triathlon Aug. 17. “I will work on my swimming before doing T-Rex,” she said.

Nicole Derrick of Royal Oak was third in 1:09:15, followed by Jill Allardyce of Saginaw (1:10:27) and Karen Perzyk of West Bloomfield (1:10:33).

For complete results, go to http://runtrextri.com.

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Triceratops Triathlon, Milford

Triceratops Tri is Dutch Treat

MILFORD (6/22/16) — A couple who recently moved to Ann Arbor from the Netherlands romped to victories in the Triceratops Triathlon, presented

by Running Fit. On a comfortable evening at the 4,000-acre Island Lake Recreation Area, Frank Janssen won the men’s race, while his wife, Christina Draijer, paced the women.

It marked the first time the Dutch duo, who now compete for the Ann Arbor Triathlon Club, swept a triathlon (this one consisting of a 1/2-mile swim, 20K bike and 5K run).

“For me, the swim went pretty well,” said Janssen. “I was second out of the water, then first on the bike out of the transition. They (other male triathletes) were closing in on me on the bike, so I kept pushing but one guy (Thierry Guertin of Windsor) passed me. So the first part of the run was all about catching him.”

Guertin held his lead through almost two miles

By Charles Douglas McEwen

of the run before Janssen sprinted by him.

“I wanted to come off the bike in first place and hold my position,” said Guertin. “About midway through the run, Frank passed me. I tried to hang on but by that point was out of breath.”

Although running hasn’t always been his first love, Janssen feels more and more confident in that portion of the triathlon.

“I think I have the most talent for running,” the winner said.

Janssen finished in 1:00:46, followed

by Guertin in 1:01:08 and masters champ Roman Krzyzanowski of Plymouth in 1:01:21. Next came Dan Lynch of Novi in 1:02:17 and Tom Fanesy of LaSalle, Ontario, in 1:02:23.

Draijer led the women out of the water, but saw Hannah Depaul of Northville pass her and open a lead on the bike leg.

“By the end of the bike I began to close it,” said Draijer. “Then I had a faster transition and began the run in first place.”

Draijer led the run to the finish line, but never felt comfortable. “I was thinking ‘Oh my God. When is she (Depaul) going to pass me?’” she said. “She kept me going.”

Draijer liked having Depaul for competition. “Otherwise I would not have gone so fast,” she said.

Draijer finished in 1:05:19, Depaul in 1:05:55, two of the best women’s times in the race’s eight-year history.

Next came Nicole Lorenz of Plymouth in 1:07:02, top master Nicole Derrick of Royal Oak in 1:08:06 and runner-up master Maggie Rettelle of Midland in 1:08:35.

Photo by Charles Douglas McEwen

“I tried to stick with her on the run for about a mile and a half,” Depaul said. “Then she picked it up and I wasn’t able to stay with her.”

The Triceratops was the first of a triathlon series that also includes the Pterodactyl July 20 and T-Rex Aug. 17. All three races use the same course.

For complete results, go to

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September / October 2016 Event Calendar

Tue, 9/13/16

Johnson Park Cross Country 5K

5KR

Grandville

(616) 538-2367

grandrapidsrunningclub.org

Sat, 9/24/16

The Super Run

5KR, 1KW

Lansing

(734) 377-2670

thesuperrun.com

Thu, 9/1/16

Ann Arbor Running Company / Saucony Saline Hornet Early Bird Open Meet Hansons Group Run - Thursdays Michigan Peach Festival 5 & 10K Run 10KR, 5KR/W Pool Drool Doggy Dash 3.4MR/W, 2MR/W, 1MR/W

Brighton Royal Oak Romeo Shelby

(734) 649-2091 (248) 616-9665 (989) 619-6115 (906) 280-2983

a2racemanagement.com hansons-running.com facebook.com/PeachFest shelbyrunclub.weebly.com

Fri, 9/2/16

Blackrocks 5K

5KR

Marquette

Sat, 9/3/16

Aliferis Memorial Duathlon / Bike / 5K Beaver Island Half Marathon and 5K Cadillac Festival of Races Grand Marais 5K Grand Marais Junior Triathlon Grand Marais Triathlon Harrison Back to School Days 5K Run/Walk InTheCut 5K Island Lake Triathlon - Fall

13.1MR, 5KR, Du; 18MB/5KR Alpena 13.1MR, 5KR Beaver Island 10K, 5K, Kid's , Tri: R/MB/Kayak Cadillac 5KR, kids tri Grand Marais wade/swim, run, bike/trike Grand Marais Tri: 300-yardS/ 14MB/ 5KR Grand Marais 5KR/W Harrison 5KR/W Detroit Tri: Olympic, Sprint Brighton

Labor Day 30K Run & 10K Walk/Run

marquettemarathon.com

30K, 10K, 6K, kids run, 30KB Milford

(989) 356-7351 alpenaregionalmedicalcenter.org (231) 448 - 2505 www.beaverisland.org/run/ (231) 876-0010 cadillacfestivalofraces.com (906) 494-2700 grandmaraismichigan.com (906) 494-2700 grandmaraismichigan.com (906) 478-5244 grandmaraismichigan.com (989) 539-1872 harrisonschools.com inthecut5k.com (734) 845-7559 islandlaketri.com (248) 685-3020

laborday30k.com

Livonia Park Run 5KR Marquette Marathon 26.2MR, 13.1MR, 5KR, kids run Marshall Run 5KR/W Northville - Run Michigan Cheap 13.1MR, 10KR, 5KR OSP Labor Day Festival Run 10MR, 7MR, 5MR, 3MR, 1MR Owen Scully Memorial Big Star Lake 15K Run & 5K Walk PR Run Club Saturday Group Run 3-20 MR training Priority Health Move to the Beats 5K/10K 10KR/W, 5KR/W RUNdetroit Saturday Group Run 10MR, 6MR, 3MR Touched by Adoption 5KR/W, kids run

Livonia Marquette Newaygo Northville Ann Arbor Baldwin Ann Arbor Royal Oak Detroit Portland

(734) 642-6664 (906) 236-2902 (616) 866-6665 (989) 954-7190 (734) 972-4532 (616) 394-0223 (313) 815-4513 (734) 341-5867 (313) 638-2831 (517) 599-1910

Sun, 9/4/16

Ed Hansen Memorial Run/Walk Fall 16 Mile Marathon Training Run Hansons Group Run Michigan’s Triathlon & Duathlon Championship Team Lucky 7 Boyne City Triathlon Trufant Jubilee Stump Chasers 5K

10KR, 5KR 4-16 MR training Olympic & sprint tri, aquabike, du Tri: Olympic & Sprint; Du 5KR/W

Ontonagon Lake Orion Lake Orion Detroit Boyne City Trufant

(906) 884-8108 (248) 693-9900 (248) 693-9900 (231) 546-2229 (877) 300-1392 (616) 560-6131

Mon, 9/5/16

En Gedi Labor Day 5K Trail Run/Walk Labor Day Run & Potluck Mackinac Bridge Labor Day Run Mackinac Bridge Walk Rich Tompkins Memorial Run

5KR/W, 1.5MW 10KR, 5KR/W, kids run 4.5MR/W 5MW 5KR/W, 2.2MW, kids run

Leonidas (269) 689-7490 engediresort.com Midland (989) 245-5432 race-mrm.com Mackinaw City (517) 347-7891 michiganfitness.org/labor-day-bridge-run St. Ignace (906) 643-7600 michiganfitness.org/labor-day-run-walks Hart (586) 596-0005 hartmainstreet.org

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parkrun.us/livonia/ marquettemarathon.com marshallrun.com runmichigancheap.com

bigstarlake.com prfitnessa2.com artsbeatseats.com run-detroit.com runningfoundation.com uprrc.org hansons-running.com hansons-running.com 3disciplines.com tritofinish.com runningfoundation.com

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Run for CHUM Half Marathon and 5K

Tue, 9/6/16

Wed, 9/7/16

Thu, 9/8/16 Fri, 9/9/16

USA 20K Championships

20KR

New Haven, CT

Dansville

(517) 936-0295

Downtown Detroit Run / Walk - Vivio’s Hanson Speed Session -Tuesdays Hansons Group Run - Tuesdays PR Fitness Group Run

4-6M training runs training

Detroit Sterling Heights Grosse Pointe Ann Arbor

(734) 673-5568 (586) 323-9683 (313) 882-1325 (313) 815-4513

detroitdowntownrunners.com hansons-running.com hansons-running.com prfitnessa2.com

Brighton Area Road Striders Weekly Runs Hansons Group Run - Wednesdays Hansons Youth Team

training runs, 3-8M camp

Brighton Utica Rochester

(248) 486.1824 (248) 693-9900 (248) 616-9665

brightonarearoadstriders.org hansons-running.com hansons-running.com

Hansons Group Run - Thursdays Hansons Youth Team

camp

Royal Oak Royal Oak

(248) 616-9665 (248) 616-9665

hansons-running.com hansons-running.com

Andy’s Angels Heritage Day 5K Bach Trot & Mozart Mile Big Mac Shoreline Scenic Bike Tour Central Thumb K of C 5K Run & Walk Christy’s Dance in the Park 5K City of Burton Patriot Day Hero Run COVE Benefit Beach Walk and Run Fall Challenge 2-4-6 First National Bank of Wakefield Marathon GHDPS Resistance Run Grape Lake 5K Run/Walk Harvest Stompede Hawk Island Fall Kids Triathlon Iron Mountain Road and Trail Half Marathon Lake Orion - Run Michigan Cheap Live Life Nspired 5K Livonia Park Run Mackinac Island 8 Mile Road Race Michigan Remembers 9-11 5K - Lansing Area

5KR/W 10KR, 5KR, 1MR/W 25MB, 50MB, 75MB, 100MB 5KR/W, kids run 5KR/W, 1MR 8KR/W, 2MR/W 10KR, 5KR/W 6, 4, 2 hour adventure 26.2MR 10KR, 5KR 5K R/W 7MR, 5KR/W Kids Triathlon 13.1MR/relay, 2MR/W, kids run 13.1MR, 10KR, 5KR/W 5KR/W, 1.5MW 5KR 8 MR/W, kids run 5KR/W

Grass Lake Lexington Mackinaw City Cass City Taylor Burton Pentwater Lake Orion Wakefield Grand Haven Paw Paw Suttons Bay Lansing Iron Mountain Lake Orion Charlotte Livonia Mackinac Island Lansing

Muskrat Classic Run Patriots 5K PR Run Club Saturday Group Run Ramblin’ Rock Invitational Rhoades McKee Reeds Lake Triathlon Run for the Son Run for Your Heart Community Races Run to Remember

5KR 5KR/W, 1MR 3-20 MR training HS X-C 5KR tri, squabike 5KR/W, 1MR/W 13.1M, 10K, 5K, 1M, kids run 5KR

Algonac Hillsdale Ann Arbor Belleville East Grand Rapids Kalamazoo Saginaw Lansing

RUNdetroit Saturday Group Run SOTL Storm Runners Race St. Mary Fall Festival 5K Prediction Run Sunrise Side Triathlons

10MR, 6MR, 3MR 10KR, 5KR/W, 1MR 5KR, 2KFR Tri/ Aquabike/ Paddle board

Detroit Brighton Morrice East Tawas

(313) 638-2831 (734) 231-2792 (517) 625-4260 (231) 546-2229

run-detroit.com sotlstormrun.com stmarymorrice.org 3disciplines.com

Witch's Hat Run

13.1MR, 10KR, 5KR/W, 1 MFR

South Lyon

(248) 207-5135

www.slxc.com/witch

9-11 Hero Run Big Mac Shoreline Scenic Bike Tour Come Clean Duathlon Crosstown Kids Triathlon Embrace Life 5K Fall 16 Mile Training Run Growler Gallop Hansons Group Run Hawk Island Sprint & Olympic Triathlon Holland Haven Marathon

5KR/W Ride across the “Mighty Mac” duathlon: 2KR/ 12MB/ 5KR triathlon distances vary by age 5KR/W 16 MR 10MR, 5KR training Triathlon 26.2MR, 13.1MR

Moonlight Bootlegger 5K Grand Rapids Run Woodstock - Day 1

Sat, 9/10/16

Mt. Baldhead Challenge

Run Woodstock - Day 2

Tri Up North Triathlon

Sun, 9/11/16

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13.1MR, 5KR, kids run

4-8 MR

5KR/W 100MR, 100KR

15KR, 5KR/W, kids run

50M, 50K, 26.2M, 13.1M, 5K

Tri: B/paddle/R

Rockford Pinckney

Douglas

Pinckney

Frankfort

(313) 304-0903 (734) 929-9027

(517) 262-3032 (810) 837-0660 (888) 455-8100 (989) 872-4429 (313) 291-0352 (810) 244-1525 (231) 869-5939 (231) 233-4736 (906) 285-4711 (616) 843-1808 (269) 657-1326 (231) 642-5550 (517) 374-5700 (906) 774-2200 (989) 954-7190 (517) 543-9575 (734) 642-6664 (810) 659-6493 (517) 333-6984

(269) 857-2570

runningfoundation.com

usatf.org

bootlegger5k.com runwoodstock.com

grasslakechamber.org race-mrm.com mackinawchamber.com runsignup.com christyslegacyofhope.com patriotdayherorun.com pentwater.org miadventureclub.com

ghdpsresistancerun.org wineandharvestfestival.com lpwines.com/harvest/ hawk-i-tri.com imrthalfmarathon.org runmichigancheap.com livelifeinspired.org parkrun.us/livonia/ www.runmackinac.com michiganremembers.org

mtbaldheadchallenge.com

(810) 794-4911 athletic.net (517) 398-3056 (313) 815-4513 prfitnessa2.com (734) 416-7774 salemcrosscountry.org (616) 949-1750 eastgr.org (269) 488-3605 kzoodc.org (989) 754-7283 runforyourheart.org michiganremembers.dreamhosters.com (734) 929-9027

(231) 352-7251

Holt Mackinaw City (888) 455.8100 Haslett (517) 393-7433 Howell (517) 540-8357 Livonia (734) 655-1595 Grosse Pointe (313) 882-1325 Detroit (313) 304-0903 Lake Orion (248) 693-9900 Lansing (517) 374-5700 Grand Haven / Holland(616) 610-5782

runwoodstock.com

tri-upnorth.com

runningfoundation.com mackinawchamber.com comecleanduathlon.org howellrecreation.org stmarymercy.org hansons-running.com triviumracing.com hansons-running.com hawk-i-tri.com hollandhavenmarathon.com

September / October 2016 Event Calendar

Kellie Sebrell Cross Country Classic

5KRW, kids runs

Run Wild for the Detroit Zoo Run Woodstock - Day 3

DeWitt

(517) 669.3418

runningfoundation.com

Trail for the Troops Run/Walk

10KR, 5KR, 10+5KR, FW 5MR

5KR/W

Royal Oak Pinckney

(248) 336-5735 (734) 929-9027

detroitzoo.org/runwild runwoodstock.com

Hansons Youth Team

camp

Sterling Heights

(586) 323-9683

hansons-running.com

Hanson Speed Session -Tuesdays Hansons Group Run - Tuesdays PR Fitness Group Run

training

Sterling Heights Grosse Pointe Ann Arbor

(586) 323-9683 (313) 882-1325 (313) 815-4513

hansons-running.com hansons-running.com prfitnessa2.com

Wed, 9/14/16

Brighton Area Road Striders Weekly Runs Hansons Group Run - Wednesdays

training runs, 3-8M

Brighton Utica

(248) 486-1824 (248) 693-9900

Thu, 9/15/16

Hansons Group Run - Thursdays

Royal Oak

(248) 616-9665

hansons-running.com

Fri, 9/16/16

Auto-Owners Insurance Spartan Invitational

college and high school x-c

East Lansing

(517) 432-5510

playmakers.com

Sat, 9/17/16

Agri-Fit Challenge Obstacke Course 5K Allegiance Health Race to Health

5KR obstacke 5MR, 5KR/W, kids run

Ithaca Jackson

(989) 463-5525 (517) 841-7455

facebook.com/agrifitchallenge allegiancehealth.org/race

Chasing the Cure for Ovarian Cancer Dash for Dogs 5K Dash thru the Daze Dirt in the Skirt 5K Flushing - Run Michigan Cheap Gilda’s Family 5K Walk & Run Grosse Pointe Run Jackpotevent

10KR 5K, 5K pump & run, 1MR 5KR/W, toss & catch 5KR 5KR/W 13.1MR, 10KR, 5KR 3MW, 2MW, 1MW 10KR, 5KR/W/Wheel, 1MR 5KR, 2MW

Sturgis Spring Lake Troy Grand Junction Flushing Royal Oak Grosse Pointe Farms Clarkston

(269) 651-5581 (231) 773-8689 (248) 823-5095 (269) 427-7777 (989) 954-7190 (248) 577-0800 (313) 506-3982 (810) 965-4750

chasingthecure.net muskegonhumanesociety.org troyyouthassistance.org stokeshomestead.com runmichigancheap.com gildaswalkandrun.org grossepointerun.com jackpotevent.com

Komen Grand Rapids Race for the Cure® Lake Superior Shore Run Livonia Park Run Michigan Adventure Race - Sleeping Bear Edition Mighty MUTT - Mighty Matt Team Trail Race Night Nation Run Nike/Holly/Duane Raffin Cross Country Invitational Perryfest Rambler PR Run Club Saturday Group Run Race in These Shoes Glow Run Run for the Hills RUNdetroit Saturday Group Run Salmon Run 5K Save the Wildlife 5K Run/Walk USATF 24 Hour Championships - 2 days

5KR/W 13.1 MR, 5KR, Kids Run 5KR 5 -10 hour adventure race 100MR, 75MR, 50MR, 25MR 5KR/W X-C meet, 5KR, 2MR 5KR/W, kids run 3-20 MR training 5KR/W, 1MW 5KR/W 10MR, 6MR, 3MR 5KR/W 5KR/W, 1MR 24 hour run

Grandville Marquette Livonia Glen Arbor Petoskey Hazel Park Davisburg Perry Ann Arbor Shelby Twp. Tipton Detroit Grand Haven Howell Cleveland

(616) 752-8262

komenwestmichigan.org lakesuperiorshorerun.com (734) 642-6664 parkrun.us/livonia/ (616) 460-9331 miadventurerace.com (877) 300-1392 tritofinish.com nightnationrun.com/#racelocations (248) 328-3400 hollyareaschools.com (517) 974-1969 playmakers.com (313) 815-4513 prfitnessa2.com (586) 668-1967 cassiehinesshoescancer.org (517) 403-5358 otih.org (313) 638-2831 run-detroit.com (616) 402-7778 bit.ly/1UjcdbJ (517) 376-9403 howellnaturecenter.org usatf.org

American Home Fitness Detroit Goddess Half Marathon, 10K & 5K

Detroit

(734) 531-8747

epicraces.com

Hansons Group Run Lake Michigan Credit Union Bridge Run Lansing Brewing Company Brew Run Race Judicata Road to the Broad 5K Romeo 2 Richmond Half Marathon The Drew Crew Walk Run Roll Timber Trail Races USA 5K Championship

training 10MR, 5KR/W FunR/W 10KR, 5KR, 1MFW 5KR/W 13.1MR, relay, 5KR/W 10KR, 5KR/W 13.1MR, 8MR, 5KR/W 5KR

Lake Orion Grand Rapids Lansing Bloomfield Hills East Lansing Richmond Novi Harrison Providence, RI

(248) 693-9900 (616) 204-6648 (517) 371-2600 (248) 334-3400 (248) 613-3274 (586) 212-1673 (248) 761-5000 (989) 386-6662

hansons-running.com thebridgerun.com playmakers.com ocba.org runsignup.com eastsideracingcompany.com thedrewcrew.org midmich.edu usatf.org

Hanson Speed Session -Tuesdays Hansons Group Run - Tuesdays PR Fitness Group Run Brighton Area Road Striders Weekly Runs

training

Sterling Heights Grosse Pointe Ann Arbor Brighton

(586) 323-9683 (313) 882-1325 (313) 815-4513 (248) 486-1824

Mon, 9/12/16 Tue, 9/13/16

White Chapel Patriot’s Race

Capital City River Run Sohn Kids’ Race

5KR, 1MW

4-8 MR

kidsR

John Rogucki Memorial Kensington Challenge 15KR, 5KR/W

Sun, 9/18/16

Tue, 9/20/16 Wed, 9/21/16

Crazy Run Fifth Third Capital City River Run

St. Johns Troy

Lansing

Milford

(248) 446-1315

(517) 485-8116

(248) 685-0043

runningfoundation.com

thepatriotsrace.com

brightonarearoadstriders.org hansons-running.com

ccriverrun.com

www.aatrackclub.org

5-8 MR Ann Arbor / Ypsilanti (734) 995-0961 aatrackclub.org 26.2MR, Relay, 13.1MR, 5KR Lansing (517) 485-8116 ccriverrun.com

4-8 MR training runs, 3-8M

Michigan Runner

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hansons-running.com hansons-running.com prfitnessa2.com brightonarearoadstriders.org

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September / October 2016 Event Calendar

Hansons Group Run - Wednesdays Team One Wine Run/Walk 5K - Saginaw

5KR/W

Utica Saginaw

(248) 693-9900 (989) 205-5838

hansons-running.com http://tritofinish.com

Royal Oak

(248) 616-9665

hansons-running.com

Thu, 9/22/16

Hansons Group Run - Thursdays

Fri, 9/23/16

Friday Five K

5KR

Muskegon

https://sites.google.com/site/fnfm5k/

Sat, 9/24/16

Addison Oaks Running Festival - 2 days All Feet No Hands 5K Clinton Fall Festival Feed Hungry Kids Fun Run

26.2MR, 13.1MR, 5KR 5KR, kids run 5KR/W, 1MW

Leonard Williamston Clinton

(248) 693-2432

Diehl’s Ciderfest Run Holland Hospital Park 2 Park 1/2 Marathon & 5K Hungerford Games Livonia Park Run Oktoberfest Marathon, Half Marathon & 5K PR Run Club Saturday Group Run Pumpkinfest Run 5K and 10K RUNdetroit Saturday Group Run

4 MR, 1MR 13.1MR, 10KR 50MR, 26.2MR, 13.1MR, 5KR 26.2MR, 13.1MR, 5kR/W 3-20 MR training 5KR 10MR, 6MR, 3MR

Holly Holland Big Rapids Livonia Spring Lake Ann Arbor South Lyon Detroit

(248) 634-8981 (616) 399-9190 (231) 250-9531 (734) 642-6664 (616) 843-1808 (313) 815-4513 (248) 207-5135 (313) 638-2831

diehlsorchard.com park2parkrace.com hungerfordgames.com parkrun.us/livonia/ oktoberfestmarathon.com prfitnessa2.com slxc.com/pumpkinfestrun run-detroit.com

Sault International Festival of Races 13.1MR, 7MR, 5KR St. Jude Detroit Walk/Run to End Childhood Cancer - Ann Arbor Wild Goose Chase 5KR/W

Sault Ste. Marie, MI 5KR/W Saginaw

(906) 632-3366 Ann Arbor (989) 791-9270

saultmarathon.com fundraising.stjude.org fws.gov/midwest/shiawassee

Addison Oaks Running Festival - 2 days Hansons Group Run Komen Toledo Race for the Cure

26.2MR, 13.1MR, 5KR training 5KR/W

Leonard Lake Orion Toledo, OH

(248) 693-2432 (248) 693-9900 (419) 724-2873

destinationoakland.com hansons-running.com komennwohio.org

North Face 10 Mile Trail Run Playmakers Autumn Classic 8K Powerman Michigan Duathlon Run for a Reason 5K Run / Walk Taking Steps Against Hunger

10MR 8K, 2M, 1M Kids Run duathlon 5KR/W, 1MW 6MR/W, 4MR/W

Grand Rapids Haslett Frankenmuth Grosse Pointe Shores Bridgeport

(517) 349.3803 (231) 546-2229 (313) 343-3674 (989) 777-5747

grandrapidsrunningclub.org playmakers.com 3disciplines.com stjohnguild.org stmatthewsbridgeport.org

Hanson Speed Session -Tuesdays Hansons Group Run - Tuesdays PR Fitness Group Run

training

Sterling Heights Grosse Pointe Ann Arbor

(586) 323-9683 (313) 882-1325 (313) 815-4513

hansons-running.com hansons-running.com prfitnessa2.com

Wed, 9/28/16

Brighton Area Road Striders Weekly Runs Hansons Group Run - Wednesdays

training runs, 3-8M

Brighton Utica

(248)486-1824 (248) 693-9900

Thu, 9/29/16

Hansons Group Run - Thursdays

Royal Oak

(248) 616-9665

hansons-running.com

Fri, 9/30/16

Hansons CC Pre High School Invite X-C Meet Running Fit Coaching Legends Classic Middle School & K6 Meet

Sterling Heights Brighton

(586) 822-8606 (734) 649-2091

hansons-running.com a2racemanagement.com

Sat, 10/1/16

Armada-Geddon 5K Run/Walk B.E. Strong R.U.N. (Rise Up Now) 5K Baby Love Run Bruckelaufe - The Bridge Race CASA Superhero 5K Run Cornerstone University Alumni & Friends 5K Franciscan Rhythms 5K Trail Run/Walk Goah! Noah!

Hansons CC High School Invite Hansons Cross-Country Invitational Island Boodle 5K Run/Walk Jungle Jubilee Little Traverse Half Marathon and 10K Livonia Park Run Michigan State Police Fall Color 5K Mt. Bohemia Trail Running Festival

Armada Shepherd Three Rivers Frankenmuth Eaton Rapids Grand Rapids Lowell Shelby Twp. Sterling Heights Sterling Heights?

Beaver Island Lansing Harbor Springs Livonia Northville Township Houghton

(586) 219-6394

Dances with Dirt - Hell

Sam Adams Mighty Mac Bridge Race

Sun, 9/25/16

Mud Creek Crawl

Tue, 9/27/16

The HealthPlus Brooksie Way

50MR, 50KR

11KR

10KR, 5KR/W

13.1M, 10K, 5K, kids run

4-8 MR

5KR/W 5KR/W, kids run 5KR/W, 1MW 13.1MR, 5KR 5KR/W, kids run 5KR/W, kids run 5KR/W 5KR X-C Meet HS XC 5KR/W 5KR/W 13.1MR, 10KR/W 5KR 5KR/W 5KR, 10KR

Beaumont Red October Run - cancelled for 2016

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Pinckney/Hell

St. Ignace

Sanford

Rochester Hills

(517) 215-0772

(734) 929-9027

(906) 643-6950

(989) 274-9495

(248) 266-6291

destinationoakland.com manyhandsmi.org http://www.i92.org/

dwdhell.com

stignace.com

tritofinish.com

thebrooksieway.com

brightonarearoadstriders.org hansons-running.com

armada-geddon.com bestronggroup.com (269) 278-2211 pregnancyhelpline.org (989) 652-6106, ext 21 bruckelaufe.org (517) 663-3306 barryeatoncasa.orgc (616) 222-1439 cornerstone.edu/alumni-5k (616) 890-5978 lifeprocesscenter.org (586) 321-6004 rmhc-detroit.org (586) 822-8606 hansons-running.com (586) 822-8606 hansons-running.com (231) 448-2505 www.beaverisland.org (800) 331-7437 runsignup.com (231) 526-2621 runlittletraverse.com (734) 642-6664 parkrun.us/livonia/ (313) 720-5249 www.tblofmi.com (906) 289-4105 mtbohemia.com beaumont.org/ror

September / October 2016 Event Calendar

Pink Up the Pace 5K PR Run Club Saturday Group Run

Sandusky Ann Arbor

(810) 648-6127 (313) 815-4513

Red Flannel Festival 5K Run/Walk 5KR/W, kids run Remembrance Run 5KR/W, 1MR/W RUNdetroit Saturday Group Run 10MR, 6MR, 3MR Running Fit Coaching Legends Classic High School Meet Sleeping Bear Marathon & Half Marathon 26.2MR, 13.1MR, 5KR Super Hero 5K Fun Run 5KR Thru the Leaves 13.1MR, 10KR Vine Wine’d 5K Trail Run 5KR, 1MR/W Wayne County Heroes on Hines Half Marathon & 5K 13.1MR, 5KR/W Zonta Breast Cancer Awareness Run/Walk 5KR/W

Cedar Springs Traverse City Detroit Brighton Empire Portage Rochester Hills Fennville Plymouth Alpena

(616) 634-0171 (231) 941.8118 (313) 638-2831 (734) 649-2091 (231) 715-1406 (269) 552-44430 (248) 872-5215 (269) 561-2396 (734) 261-1990 (989) 354-7314

redflannelfestival.org remembrancerun.com run-detroit.com a2racemanagement.com enduranceevolution.com kalamazoocan.com move-itfitnessllc.com fennvalley.com heroesonhines.com

Falling Waters Trail Run Hansons Group Run Heart of the Hills MSU Federal Credit Union Dinosaur Dash

13.1M, 10K, 5K, kids run training 10KR, 5KR 5KR/W, 1MR

Concord Lake Orion Bloomfield Hills East Lansing

(517) 392-8250 (248) 693-9900 (800) 666-4500 (517) 355-2370

fwtrw.org hansons-running.com .heartofthehillsrun.com museum.msu.edu

St.John’s Applefest Run Trick or Feet Kidney Run USA Masters 5 km Championships

10KR, 5KR/W, 1MR 10KR/W, 5KR/W, kids run 5KR

New Boston Northville Syracuse, NY

(734) 654-6366 stjohnsapplefestrun.weebly.com (734) 222-9800 nkfm.org usatf.org

Downtown Detroit Run / Walk - Vivio’s Hanson Speed Session -Tuesdays Hansons Group Run - Tuesdays PR Fitness Group Run

4-6M training runs training

Detroit Sterling Heights Grosse Pointe Ann Arbor

(734) 673-5568 (586) 323-9683 (313) 882-1325 (313) 815-4513

detroitdowntownrunners.com hansons-running.com hansons-running.com prfitnessa2.com

Wed, 10/5/16

Brighton Area Road Striders Weekly Runs Hansons Group Run - Wednesdays

training runs, 3-8M

Brighton Utica

(248) 486-1824 (248) 693-9900

brightonarearoadstriders.org hansons-running.com

Thu, 10/6/16

Hansons Group Run - Thursdays Holland Hospital School Nurse 5K Run/Walk

5KR/W

Royal Oak Holland

(248) 616-9665 (616) 355-3973

hansons-running.com facebook.com/schoolnurse5k

Fri, 10/7/16

Friday Five K

5KR

Muskegon

https://sites.google.com/site/fnfm5k/

Sat, 10/8/16

Bee Brave 5K Run/Walk Drummond Island’s Fall on the Island Festival Evart - Run Michigan Cheap Eye Care Do You? Fall Colors Bridge Race Fit 4 Fall 5K Lane Walker Foundation 5K Run

5KR/W 5KR/W 13.1MR, 10KR, 5KR/W 13.1MR, 10KR, 5KR/W 5.4MR/W 5KR/W 5KR/W

Alto Drummond Island Evart Tipton Mackinaw City Saint Joseph Alma

(616) 698-8054 beebrave.com (800) 737-8666 drummondislandfallfestival.com (989) 954-7190 runmichigancheap.com (517) 887-6640 lmsf.net (231) 436-5664 www.mackinawcity.com (269) 985-5496 fit4fall5k.com (989) 621-7332 thelanewalkerfoundation.org

Rattlesnake Run 5K

Sun, 10/2/16

Scrumpy Skedaddle

Tue, 10/4/16

5KR/W 3-20 MR training 5KR/W

10K, 5K, Cider Slam 10K & 5K

4-8 MR

Rochester

Flushing

(517) 580-3021

(734) 929-9027

Michigan Runner

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mckenziehealth.org prfitnessa2.com

https://runsignup.com

runscrumpy.com

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September / October 2016 Event Calendar

Leif ’s Run Livonia Park Run Michigan Adventure Race - ArtPrize Edition Portage Invitational PR Run Club Saturday Group Run Rockin’ Rave Race

10KR, 5KR, 2MW 5KR/W 4 hour adventure race x-c meet, open 5K 3-20 MR training 5KR/W, 1MR

Norway Livonia Grand Rapids Portage Ann Arbor Bay City

(906) 221-0966 (734) 642-6664 (616) 460-9331 (269) 323-5233 (313) 815-4513 (989) 832-7937

uprrc.org parkrun.us/livonia/ miadventurerace.com/ www.portageinvite.com prfitnessa2.com greatermidland.org/races

Run for Health

10KR/W, 5KR/W

Hillsdale

(517) 437-5270

runningfoundation.com

RUNdetroit Saturday Group Run Salmon Run/Walk

10MR, 6MR, 3MR 10KR, 5KR/W

Detroit Baldwin

(313) 638-2831 (231) 745-8804

Wayne County Cross Country Championships WMU Homecoming Campus Classic Wolf Lake 5K

HS X-C 5KR 5KR/W, 1KR 5KR

Run 4 Wine

Run Scream Run

Sandhill Crane All Trail Half Marathon

4MR/W

10KR, 5KR,1MR

13.1MR, 10KR, 5KR

Grand Blanc

(810) 233-8851

Ypsilanti

Vandalia

Belleville Kalamazoo Brighton

(734) 929-9027

(574) 215-4779

run4winerace.com

runscreamrun.com

run-detroit.com salmonrunbaldwin.com

cairnstoneadventuretours.com

(734) 582-6918 (269) 387-8402 (810) 231-4169

salemathletics.com wmich.edu/campusclassic hamburgfitness.netl

Sun, 10/9/16

Devil’s Dive Half Marathon and 5K 13.1MR, 5KR Hansons Group Run training Hidden Forest Trail Run 8.5 MR, 5.5 MR, 2.5 MR/W Portland St. Patrick Fall Festival Half Marathon and 5K Thumb Sprint Triathlon sprint tri USATF 10 Mile Championships 10MR

Traverse City Lake Orion (248) 693-9900 Clarkston (810) 487-0954 Portland (517) 647-1709 Caro (231) 546-2229 St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN

devilsdivehalf.com hansons-running.com riverbendstriders.com runningfoundation.com 3disciplines.com usatf.org

Tue, 10/11/16

Hansons Group Run - Tuesdays Lansing Brewing Company Brew Run PR Fitness Group Run

Grosse Pointe Lansing Ann Arbor

(313) 882-1325 (517) 371-2600 (313) 815-4513

hansons-running.com playmakers.com prfitnessa2.com

Wed, 10/12/16

Brighton Area Road Striders Weekly Runs Hansons Group Run - Wednesdays

Brighton Utica

(248)486-1824 (248) 693-9900

Thu, 10/13/16

Hansons Group Run - Thursdays

Royal Oak

(248) 616-9665

hansons-running.com

Fri, 10/14/16

Jayhawk Cross Country Invitational The Beer Run Oktoberfest 5K

Muskegon Owosso

(231) 740-1071 (989) 725=8317

http://runsignup.com

Sat, 10/15/16

Ann Arbor Running Company Run Through the Meadows Middle School & K6 Meet Deerfield Park Trail Half / 10K / 5K 13.1MR, 10KR, 5KR Fr. Gabriel Richard HS Cross Country Invitational hs x-c meet Livonia Park Run 5KR Orchards at Sunset 5K 5KR, 1MR Petoskey - Run Michigan Cheap 13.1MR, 10KR, 5KR/W PR Run Club Saturday Group Run 3-20 MR training USA Half Marathon Trail Championships 13.1MR Whistlestop Marathon and Half Marathon 26.2 MR, 13.1 MR, 10KR, 5KR

Brighton Mt. Pleasant Dexter Livonia Suttons Bay Petoskey Ann Arbor Bellingham, WA Ashland, WI

(734) 649-2091 (989) 317-5889 (734) 904-6431 (734) 642-6664 (231) 866-0959 (989) 954-7190 (313) 815-4513

Detroit Free Press / Talmer Bank Marathon Hansons Group Run Nationwide Better Health Columbus Marathon Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon

Detroit & Windsor, ON (313) 222-6676 freepmarathon.com Lake Orion (248) 693-9900 hansons-running.com Columbus, OH (614) 421.7866c olumbusmarathon.com Toronto, ON (416) 944-2765 torontowaterfrontmarathon.com

Sun, 10/16/16

Crazy Run

FunR/W 4-8 MR training runs, 3-8M

8KR, 5KR 5KR/W

5-8 MR

26.2M, 13.1M, relay, 5K training 26.2 M, 13.1 M, kids run 26.2 MR, 13.1MR, 5KR, kids run

Ann Arbor

(800) 284-9484

734-995-0961

brightonarearoadstriders.org hansons-running.com

a2racemanagement.com michiganhalfseries.com parkrun.us/livonia/ eventbrite.com runmichigancheap.com prfitnessa2.com usatf.org whistlestopmarathon.com aatrackclub.org

Mon, 10/17/16

Greater Lansing Junior Cross Country Championships middle school x-c

DeWitt

(517) 285-6409

directathletics.com

Tue, 10/18/16

Hansons Group Run - Tuesdays PR Fitness Group Run Shadywoods/Youngsters CC Invite

Grosse Pointe Ann Arbor Sterling Heights

(313) 882-1325 (313) 815-4513 (586) 822-8606

hansons-running.com prfitnessa2.com hansons-running.com

Wed, 10/19/16

Brighton Area Road Striders Weekly Runs Hansons Group Run - Wednesdays

Brighton Utica

(248) 486-1824 (248) 693-9900

Thu, 10/20/16

Hansons Group Run - Thursdays

Royal Oak

(248) 616-9665

Sat, 10/22/16

Ann Arbor Running Company / Asics Michigan Middle School Mega Jam Dragons in the Woods 5KR/W

Dexter Holt

(734) 649-2091 a2racemanagement.com (517) 922-0089 dragonsinthewoods.weebly.com

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4-8 MR X-C Meet training runs, 3-8M

brightonarearoadstriders.org hansons-running.com hansons-running.com

September / October 2016 Event Calendar

Gaylord - Run Michigan Cheap George Hackney Fright Night 5K - Tentative Date Great Turtle Half Marathon Hallowed Half and Frightening 5K Headless Horseman 5K Livonia Park Run Michigan High School Cross Country U.P. State Finals PR Run Club Saturday Group Run Race to Restore RUNdetroit Saturday Group Run The Zombie Dash

13.1MR, 10KR, 5KR/W 5KR/W, 1MR/W 13.1 MR, 5.7 MR/W 13.1MR, 5KR/W,kids run 10KR, 5KR 5KR 5KR 3-20 MR training 5KR/W 10MR, 6MR, 3MR 5KR

Gaylord Flushing Mackinac Island Leslie Howell Livonia Gladstone Ann Arbor Lansing Detroit Grand Rapids

Best Race by a Dam Site

5KR/W

Dimondale

Halloween Double Halloween Hustle Hansons Group Run Huddle Up 5K/10K Metro Health Grand Rapids Marathon Run Thru Hell Halloween Scare Away Hunger 5K Run /Walk Screaming Banshee 5K/10K/Half Superhero 5K

5KR, 1MR 10-KR, 5KR/W, 1MR/W training 10KR, 5KR 26.2 MR, 13.1 MR 8KR, 5KR/W,1MR 5KR/W 13.1MR, 10KR, 5K/W, 1MR/W 5KR/W, 1MR/W, kids run

Leonard Marshall Lake Orion Shelby Twp. Grand Rapids Pinckney Rochester Hills Potterville Dexter

(248) 858-0916 (269) 781-3325 (248) 693-9900 (248) 872-5215 (616) 293-3145 (517) 702-0226 (248) 651-5836 (517) 303-3792 (734) 712-5640

destinationoakland.com marshallunitedway.com hansons-running.com move-itfitnessllc.com grandrapidsmarathon.com runningfoundation.com scareawayhungerrun.org pvilleraceseries.com superhero5kdexter.com

Tue, 10/25/16

Hansons Group Run - Tuesdays PR Fitness Group Run

4-8 MR

Grosse Pointe Ann Arbor

(313) 882-1325 (313) 815-4513

hansons-running.com prfitnessa2.com

Wed, 10/26/16

Ann Arbor Running Company End of Autumn Harvest a PR - Pre Regional Open Meet Brighton Brighton Area Road Striders Weekly Runs training runs, 3-8M Brighton Hansons Group Run - Wednesdays Utica

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Running with Tom Henderson

Tom Henderson

Harley was his name. He was a big guy, a 100pound mix of German shepherd and malamute who looked like a wolf, she said. She and he had hit it off the first time she’d visited his owners, a couple in their 80s who had become new clients. She stopped by to check on them once a week, and while she was there chatting with them and filling out her report, he’d sit next to her and put his head in her lap.

A couple months later Kathleen called, again.

She was crying. Harley’s owners had both had severe health declines and their older kids had put them into assisted living. They couldn’t take Harley with them and their grown children didn’t want him.

They were going to put him down.

Kathleen asked them to give her a few weeks to try to find him a home. Surely one of her colleagues would want a big, beautiful pussycat of a dog.

The kids said she could have a month and boarded Harley in a kennel. Kathleen visited him and was dismayed. He was confined in a cage barely bigger than he was.

I was driving up north every Friday night in those days, returning to Detroit at the crack of dawn Monday. One night at the beginning of Harley’s last month, I pulled into the driveway and there was a wolf laying in the dirt. Kathleen came running out. Don’t worry, she said. He’s just here for the weekend. I couldn’t stand the thought of him in that cage. I’ll get someone to take him, I thought.

The next weekend I arrived up north to the sight of a wolf in the yard, again. Don’t worry, said Kathleen. I think I have an owner for him.

The third weekend, near the end of Harley’s month, same story. A wolf in the yard, Kathleen telling me not to worry.

“Kathleen, we’re not going to let this guy get put down,” I told her. “Nobody seems eager to take him. Let’s buy him his own leash tomorrow.

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“I think we’ve got another dog,” I said.

A bit of a problem child as it turned out. Harley, despite his size and breed, had never been out much.

His owners were too old and weak to control him on a leash, we’d found out from their kids, so he had been housebound and never socialized.

For some reason Harley and our black lab, Maddie, hit it right off. But Harley pretty much wanted to attack and shred every other dog he saw, something we found out the hard way the first time we took him for a walk at a nature preserve on Old Mission Peninsula north of Traverse City.

The first dog he saw started snarling and Harley tried to attack, pulling Kathleen to the ground. I had to help her hang onto Harley’s leash, digging in my heels as I sat on the ground to keep him from attacking while the other dog’s owners were freaking out.

Harley needed to burn off energy and get socialized. Running did the first, Maddie the second.

We’d been warned Harley would escape every chance he could, eager to bound off. We had to be careful opening the door at our place in the woods or he’d bolt past us and be gone, racing down the dirt road or through the woods to the nearby lake, where he’d go frogging.

He would always come back, usually to bolt off again as soon as one of us saw him and started walking his way.

The first Saturday we had Harley, I put him on a leash and took him for a run. He had never been on one with a human and thought it was grand fun. He also thought I went much too slowly, and we spent all five miles with my arm being pulled out of socket, me stopping and telling him to quit pulling or yanking back on him trying to get that point across.

To no avail. It took him a year to finally settle in and run my pace. But getting yelled at or jerked back by me never bothered him. There was such pure joy at going for a run, nothing was would take the edge off it for Harley.

The sight of me picking up my running shoes or the leash put the greatest smile on his long-nosed face.

His smile was so big it looked like a computer rendering or something out of a Looney Tunes cartoon where a wolf would flash a huge toothy smile at a shewolf while his eyes went in and out of his head.

He got better at running politely and being in public. Maddie is half Australian shepherd and thinks of herself as the boss. With Harley, she was the playground attendant. She wouldn’t put up with his barking and snarling at other dogs when we were out in public. He’d start his antics and she’d get in his face and start barking loudly to break his attention on what he saw as prey. Usually that was

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even years ago my wife Kathleen was doing home healthcare for Munson Hospital in Traverse City. She called me at work in Detroit one day. We’re both dog lovers and she wanted to tell me about this incredible dog she’d met on her rounds.

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Harley and Maddie enough to calm him down. But if he started snarling again at whatever dog he was eyeing, Maddie would grab his collar in her teeth, turn him around and walk him away.

Time out, buddy.

Soon, rather than risk getting chastised by Maddie, he’d just ignore dogs we’d come across.

Maddie and I have been running 5Ks and 10Ks for years, since she was seven months old. The Fifth Third Leprechaun 5K in Traverse City encourages owners to run with their dogs, and dozens of them do every year. Two years ago when we were finally confident enough that Harley could be trusted, we took him to the race. I ran with Maddie. Kathleen, who was about to have knee-replacement surgery, wasn’t up to running 3.1 miles but as a test for Harley, ran with him the first mile.

He was amazed at what was going on. So many people, so many dogs, and so much fun. Kathleen said she’d never seen Harley so happy as when the race started and to his surprise, there he was running down the street. He ignored the dogs around him. Running was what this was all about, not acting like a tough guy.

We would, we decided, start taking him to all the races Maddie and I were going to do.

Soon after, I got another call from Kathleen where she was crying. Harley had had a stroke. She’d come home to find him stumbling around, no sense of balance. She had somehow got him into the car and was on her way to the vet.

The news was better than we had feared. It wasn’t a stroke, it was something called vestibular disease, which occurs when there’s irritation to the nerves connecting the inner ear with the brain. The result is a loss of balance. The prognosis? Anything from complete recovery to continued lack of balance.

Harley started getting better but never healed.

He continued to have trouble with his balance, but

Kona Strawberry Run, Belleville

Jordan, Rehm Taste Sweet Strawberry Run Treats

The run, presented by the Kona Running Co. and St. Mary Mercy Livonia, was held in conjunction with the National Strawberry Festival in downtown Belleville. A few runners dressed in strawberry-colored/decorated outfits. One dressed head-to-toe as a hot dog and looked cooked by the race’s end.

Malik Jordan, 19, of Wayne, who is entering his sophomore year at Lawrence Tech University, won the 8K in 29:02, beating his coach Eric Green, 48, of Pontiac, who placed second in 29:45. Shane Logan, 38, of Clarkston took third in 30:54.

“It went well given I haven’t run an 8K since last November,” Jordan said. “My 8K PR is 26:19, so I was not far off considering how hot it was and it’s the off-season.”

Green, who set the course record here last year in 28:31, was happy to see his protégé do well.

“I didn’t even know what the record was coming into the race,” said Jordan.

“And I wasn’t going to tell him,” Green interjected.

Last year, Lori Leach Davis, then 51, won the women’s just spread his back legs wider apart when running or walking and made do.

He still loved to run, but after half a mile he needed to walk. After six months or so, he decided he’d rather not run at all.

But he was still eager to go for a walk. Still eager to go the lake and frog. Or to his favorite pasture and dig up field mice. In the winter, he’d tag along behind us as we broke trail on our snowshoes. He’d get his huge smile at the sight of his leash. I’d mimic his smile.

He’d look at me, smiling and bobbing his head up and down. Like are we going, are we going? I’d smile back at him and bob my head up and down.

Soon I didn’t need to show him the leash. If I just looked at him with a big goofy smile and started bobbing my head, he knew we were going for a walk. He’d jump up and head to the door.

Last summer Harley started showing signs of arthritis. It took him longer to get up. He walked slower. He didn’t want to go far. One day, just 50 yards up the road from our place in the woods, he laid down.

It took Kathleen forever to get him to his feet.

The next day the same thing. She took him to the vet, afraid she was going to have to put him down. The vet recommended steroids and they were a lifechanger. Within a few days all signs of arthritis were

8K. This year Amanda Rehm, 44, of Commerce won in 39:45, far ahead of runners-up Lesley Celek, 25, of Belleville (41:18) and Stephanie Kuharik of Troy (41:23).

“I ran really well,” Rehm said. “I can’t wait to tell my daughter I won a race.”

Justin Heck, 25, of Monroe also felt the day’s heat and humidity, yet prevailed in the 5K.

“I felt all right until halfway, then the heat took over,” said Heck, who finished in 16:43. Next came Sergei Anderson, 26, of Ypsilanti, who runs for the Ypsilanti Running Co., in 17:10. Both easily bested in 18:02 course record.

“We ran against each other in high school (Heck for Monroe, Anderson for Belleville),” said Anderson.

“Justin is really good, so I new at best I would get second today,” he said.

Lexi Jorgens, 15, a junior at Eisenhower High School in Shelby Township, paced the women in 21:08. Next came Julie Slesinski of Ann Arbor in 24:00 and top master Sheila Mathis of Belleville in 24:18.

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BELLEVILLE (6/17/16) — Road construction made it a challenge to drive to the Kona Strawberry Run. But the 8K and 5K races still drew more 800 runners and walkers on a steamy, sun-soaked Friday evening.

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Her red hair flies while mom runs fast in the Kona Strawberry Run.

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Not knowing how much time we had left with the big guy when we went to Florida for our annual trips in October, we didn’t leave him with family; we took him. Maddie and Harley wedged together in the back of the SUV, a couple of old dogs happy to be in the car.

Harley loved the beach, sniffing at crab holes, eager to sneakily eat a dead fish that had washed up if we weren’t paying attention.

This past winter he was still up to going out snowshoeing with us, still responding to my smile and bobbing head with a smile and a bob of his own.

He had a sudden decline this spring. In two weeks he got to a point where he could hardly stand and would moan in pain when he laid down. His walks went from two miles to a mile to a half mile to 100 yards. We upped his steroid dosage without much effect. He was still a happy, smiley guy, thrilled to be petted, happy to have Maddie curling up next to him sleeping.

But he needed help to get to his feet. He spent part of each night crying in pain.

It was time. “Wanna go for a ride, Big?” (Big was one of his nicknames, the others being Wolfie, Har-Bar and You Harley-Headed Guy).

It broke my heart to see him, for the first time in a week, get to his feet without help. A car ride?

Really? A car ride? Let’s go!

We drove to the vet. We sat on the floor with him, his head in Kathleen’s lap the way it was the first day she’d met him. He died peacefully.

Crying, with the help of the vet techs, we got him in the back of the car and drove into the woods. As Maddie sat there watching intently, having sniffed him from head to toe, I dug a hole in the sand that makes up the glacier moraine hill our former one-room schoolhouse sits on.

We put him in the hole, filled in the dirt and covered him with a bunch of big Petosky stones we’d found over the years to serve as a headstone and to keep predators from digging him up at night.

“Come on, Mad. Time for a run.” It was either that or another cry.

Thanks for joining the family, Har-Bar. Thanks for the runs.

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U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Track & Field, Eugene, Oregon

Trials Send Two Michigan Athletes to Rio & One Almost

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Portage, Michigan’s Andrew Evans threw the discus 200 feet, 10 inches to place third and earn his place on the U.S. team at the Rio Olympics.

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Photo left: Jeff Porter, who competed for University of Michigan, took third in the 110 meter hurdles and became an Olympian for the second time.

Amanda Eccleston (left) and Brenda Martinez (right) charge the finish line for third place at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Track & Field, in the 1500 meter run. Eccleston, from Adrian, Michigan and the University of Michigan finished in 4:16.19, just .03 second behind Martinez.

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