By David Yon The weather was about as good as you could ask for on a mid-July afternoon in Dothan, Alabama as 256 runners completed the Critter Run 5K on Saturday evening. Now, please don’t confuse that description with “cool” as it was still plenty...
Racing is good fun By Fred Deckert For every runner I see at races I would estimate I see perhaps 5 other unfamiliar faces running around the roads. It seems that many folks are taking to heart the “Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.” On the other...
Critter Run trophies (or are they just waiting for Prince Charming to return?)Mary Jean Yon (3rd Overall Female) and Bill McGuire (Male Master) took home these trophies from the Critter Run in Dothan July 21. Photo by Robert...
By David Yon Southern heat has a way of slowing things down; throw in a blanket of humidity and we find ourselves crawling around our familiar trails in sweat drenched cloths at paces that make the Turtle seem like the champ and the Critter to feature at next...
Why do I run? By Jeff Bryan Ernest Hemingway wrote in “For Whom The Bell Tolls,” “Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today.” I don’t...
