2017 Features Archives Index

Cascades Park Plus the Kiwanis Club is a Good Formula for the 4th of July David Yon,  It has taken a long time, but it appears that Tallahassee has found its 4th of July race. While it is still a long way from the 55,000 runners who run the Peachtree 10K...

Imagine the surprise when ace journalist and Cleveland-Caldwell award winning photographer Herb Wills, discovered the locked gate. Waiting less than a quarter mile away were more than 100 runners, anxious to get the 4-mile prediction race (no watches)...

A New Week of Running David Yon,  Life moves on quickly, anxious to leave the troubles and the joys behind just to wander. So, Google tells me the Earth spins at about 1,000 miles per hour around the equator. The sun and the earth “mill around” the Galaxy...

Pot Luck in Zack’s Corner Zack Scharlepp, President GWTC Gulf Winds Track Club’s 2017 Potluck “four mile” race is right around the corner. June 3, 2017, at Forest Meadows Park, promises to be full of heat, humidity, hills, and horseflies-the 4-H of...

Who struck down Paul Hoover and why? David Yon, Still in mourning  It glides through the night with less than a whisper of sound,The only evidence of its passage,The light mist sliced in half, dancing on air currents before falling to the groundA life...

The Chenoweth Endowment Fund: A Dean and Jenny Chenoweth Legacy Memory Lane with Mae Cleveland,  This year is the 20th running of the Pot Luck Bash four mile run. The event began in 1988 as a fundraiser for the Chenoweth Endowment Fund, but the Chenoweth...

Young Billy McGuire David Yon,  When I tally the pluses and the minuses of knowing Bill McGuire for more than 35 plus years the pluses are so far ahead of the minus, I shake my head. (He may not think the same way, however; by now he has learned when I...

Joyce Lowery as a Trailblazer in Women's Running Memory Lane with Mae Cleveland Joyce Lowery had been running nearly thirty years when she won GWTC's 1996 female runner of the year award, along with her two twin sister, Nancy Widener. Joyce competed on the...

There is a Problem? There is a solution! Mark Priddy, Robert Nowak identified the problem. As he and his Chiles High School cross country teammates regularly ran the trails at Phipps Park he noticed that the trails were not well marked. It was confusing....

The Routebot Tyler Kelly is a graduate student at FSU and he has created a running application called the Routebot. He wants you to check it out and give him some feed back. You can reach him at Tyler Kelly - tck13@my.fsu.edu.Here is the website for his...

Running Etiquette – Behaving Yourself Out There Gary Griffin Note: The opinions expressed herein are those of an old and frequently grumpy endurance runner who has witnessed his share of bad running behavior over the years …Let’s begin with some bad...

It is the Fastest 5K in Town, Let's make it one of the Largest David Yon, I believe it is the fastest certified 5K course in Tallahassee. While the Palace Saloon 5K course has some much faster finish times to brag about, I think that has more to do with...

Does anyone know why? David Yon,  The manager of the restaurant slipped in behind our traveling companion and carefully looped the straps of her purse around the top left corner of the chair where she had been sitting. Everyone at the table immediately...

Marathon Mania David Yon,  What is it about the marathon that so captivates communities? Not just those who run, but also those who follow and support the event. Whatever it is, I am glad it exists. How else would you be able to see the street closures the...

Clocking Out in Under Two Hours David Yon, There are those barriers that for unknown reasons we become obsessed with. In athletics, the most famous of course was the 4-minute mile. Sports Illustrated called Roger Bannister’s sub four-minute mile race the...

From Tallahassee to Boston and Back David Yon, List of Tallahassee ParticipantsOn Monday, April 17, 2017, a crowd of more than 30,000 people will toe the line again for the Boston Marathon. Among the runners in the crowd will be approximately 17 people...

Rising to the Occasion David Yon, On Sunday morning, newbie race director Charlie Johnson was being tempered by the fire of his first “event-in-charge.” To complicate the experience, it was a duathlon: a rejuvenated St. Marks Duathlon. Competitors began by...

Is That my Skeleton? David Yon,  The visit did not start so well. Of course, a drive from Tallahassee to Gainesville that begins at 6:15 a.m., 15 minutes late, tends to put a person on edge to begin with. I know the third floor of the building at 3450 Hull...

Understanding - It is a Lot Like Family: The Tallahassee Ultra By David Yon, To the outsider it may not make a lot of sense. Dozens of volunteers watching thirty runners go in circles for as little as 3 hours and 18 minutes and as long as 11 hours and 43...

Rex Cleveland and the Story of the Vibrating Bed Tony Wade,  Our relationship began with a mattress in the back of a van and a vibrating bed. I think I need to explain……It was early 1984 and two British innocents with a dream were living in Tallahassee. I...