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24 Mar

Blizzards!

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My earliest memory of a blizzard was when I was in the second grade. The blizzard was over, school had been reopened but the road going by our farm was blocked in by high snow drifts. The farm family across the road from us had an answer to the unplowed roads. They still had a couple of horses in the barn that had retired because the modern tractor had taken their place working the fields. The neighbors had a wooden…..

24 Mar

Tournament Fever

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I first experienced ‘ tournament fever’ when I was in the sixth grade attending the Clinton Elementary School. Even then I was a proud Clinton Rocket. And that was well before Russia and the U.S.A. were in a race to be the first to escape the bonds of earth and begin our venture into outer space. Rockets were of course important in achieving such an endeavor. Rockets as a high school mascot was a way of keeping up with the…..

03 Mar

How It All Began

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The other day I received a message from a friend who was preparing to run a 10K(6 miles) and she wanted some advise about training for such a race. I had been a runner for 40 years until a knee problem turned me into a walking golfer and I also had been a cross country coach for 13 years. So I guess she thought I should have some knowledge about training distance runners. That request got me thinking about the very beginning of my…..

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