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so many others not listed here, have been meticulously recorded in the pages of a magazine known as the Roadrunner.

For me, the Roadrunner has been a special blessing. It has served as a chronicle for many of the pivotal years of my life. My children grew to adulthood in those pages. My wife faced, and ultimately conquered, the horrors of breast cancer in those pages. Tributes have been written to my parents, my wife, my kids, my mother-in-law, and even my dog, in those same pages. I have grown tremendously over the years, often due to the reflections I’ve seen of myself through the lens of the articles I write. I’ve ultimately come to better recognize my own madness and have even accepted my ultimate mortality in part thanks to those pages in the Roadrunner. (Not that I plan to make it that easy for the Grim Reaper to end my adventures prematurely. Running should help delay that eventual meeting for a while longer yet … at least I hope so.)

All of those tales, and so much more, stand as a proxy for my life over the last 11 years. A handful of you have shared all those adventures with me, year after year. A small number of these stories have touched other runners and has created a spark that spawned brand new adventures of their own. Those folks became the new protagonist in their own new tales. A few of them have even shared their stories in the pages of the Roadrunner and have added new life and new faces to the already sizable legacy of the magazine.

When our current editor took over so many years ago, the focus of the magazine turned to individual runners. Readers were treated to a new generation of writers. These were people with stories to tell, like

Bill Butler, Rachel Regan, Cory Adams and the Badorff family. Nutritional advice was expertly summarized by Ashley Ludlow with an entertaining edge, and physical therapy advice was expertly doled out by Joel Lyons. To be honest, there are so many more names of talented authors who stepped forward during that time than I can mention here. The writing abilities of the runners of Memphis runs deep.

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