Only Heroes Take This Path, Part I David Yon, It is not always the fastest person who is the best hero. Sometimes you don’t even have to finish the race to earn the title. Sometimes it is enough to see the path a person is willing to travel and the...
Dog Days on Their Way David Yon, Tallahassee residents know what Dog Days are – that sultry heat that just suffocates. Memorial Day marks a symbolic change in the running calendar from one of Tallahassee’s best seasons – spring – to its toughest –...
Race Directing – Doing it Right. David Yon, About four years ago Grea Bevis began exploring the possibility of directing a race. During a mission trip to the Himalayan Mountains near Chambi, India in 2004, he recognized that there was also a need...
Weekend round Up David Yon, Runners are, by and large, a fairly anal bunch. And while run times may vary some during the work week, on the weekends the overwhelming choice is morning. It just works better to get up and out the door and get the run in without having...
The Pine Run Reborn David Yon, You pick up the phone and you just know there is going to be bad news on the other end. Last September that is exactly what happened when I called Janice Baty at the Southlands Experimental Forest and International Paper...
The Last Time – Jere Moore David Yon,Photo “Jere and Charlie” by Fred Deckert, The last time I saw Jere Moore, he was sitting up in a hospital chair, oxygen flowing from a tube through his nose and into his lungs. One of those lungs...
