FPS by MJY

Mary Jean Yon,  I don’t tend to excel when it comes to Famous Person Sightings (FPS) but I got lucky when we traveled to Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Olympics and ran right into Meb Keflezighi. David and I were returning from an easy run along the trail in Flamengo...

2019 Off to a Slip-Roaring Start at the Swamp Forest Trail Races

David Yon, The 2019 racing season got off to a good start on Saturday (January 4) as runners raced over 4 distances on the slick forest trails of Elinor Klapps-Phipps Park.  A record month of rain in December set the stage and created perhaps the wettest and...

The Run to Posey’s – Another Year of History

David Yon, All seemed well this year as a group of maybe 30-35 runners gathered in the parking lot of the Rails to Trail station located just south of the intersection of Woodville Highway and Capital Circle Southeast, preparing for the Christmas Eve Run to Posey’s....

Paul’s Pulpit – Paul Guyas, GWTC President

What a way to close it out. We said goodbye to 2018 with my favorite event of the year – the Gulf Winds Holiday party. As always, it was a blast. Of course, like with even a perfect training plan, something always goes off course and you have to figure a way...

Absent from Duty

David Yon, I find memory to be a less reliable source for story telling every year. (Or maybe I just don’t remember how unreliable my memory used to be.)   Regardless, I don’t remember the last time I was not present for Ultra day in Wakulla Springs State Park, either...

Most Valuable

Most Valuable Travis Miller,In an article that recently appeared on the Kansas page of Milesplit, high school coach Rod Murrow presents the idea that cross country is simultaneously irrelevant and valuable. Coach Murrow came to this realization as he assisted a young...