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This La Chute Runner is packing running gear

for a trip to Marathon Key, then to St. George

Island on the Florida panhandle, and then on to

Tuscaloosa, Albama, and this is his log.

January 23rd

Three whistles. Dave and I are on Alexandria

Avenue as it intersects with Lake George. I am

wearing a newly washed pair of shoes for the

trip. Someone runs toward Lake George Avenue.

We think he is a runner, but he has a camera.

He makes it just in time. Lake George Avenue

rises 6 feet. Such is the power of dynamite. Such

is the containing effect of the blasting mat. We

run by. Everyone waves! They stand right next

to the blast. I don’t have many runs in the cold

and snow left. When I return I bet the project will

be winding down.

February 18th

It’s dark, I head out in shorts and a tee shirt on

Vaca Key, Florida. Vaca means cow is Spanish.

Early settlers of this key saw manatee in its

waters and named it for the sea cow. I head

back and at the 6 mile mark, I meet Dave. He

and I continue to do another 10. Another long

run done! This time, not on a frozen road, but

on the back of a former coral reef.

February 21st

Days earlier, I saw a white blimp floating but

anchored with a tether off of Cudjoe Key. It is

used to monitor boat traffic around the keys. I am

back again, this time to run in the Blimp Road 4

mile race. There are

2 kinds of dirigibles:

type A, rigid, and

type B, limp. Blimp

is a portmanteau word; it combines the “B”

with “limp.” The race ran down 2 miles to the

blimp tether and back

again. Amazingly flat! The

race was put on by the

Southernmost Runners, a

member of RRCA. It was

an experience running a race at that latitude.

This key is on the Tropic of Cancer, and Hawaii

is only 4 degrees closer to the equator. There

were 110 runners in the race most of them

were local. Amazingly, 5 were from New York! Go

NY! Results were computerized and they even

had 3 clocks on the course! Interestingly, at

10:00 am, the keg was tapped and burgers were

fried. Runners in the keys are as pleasantly laid-

back, typical of runners everywhere. There were

walkers in the race is well. One was so incredibly

fast that officials thought he must have run. He

didn’t, but he ultimately was given first place in a

running class. Interestingly, 2 runners didn’t wear

shoes. Also, another oddity. The first 2 runners

finished incredibly ahead of the field. There was

a water stop before the turn. They turned there.

Officials thought that they would have been the

first 2 in anyway, so they just tacked on 2

minutes to their time.

http://www.southernmostrunners.com/results/BR-

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March 5th

St. George isn’t a key but it is a barrier reef, and

a part of the western part of Florida’s panhandle,

Florida’s forgotten coast, and it is the location

for more warm weather running. It is not typical

of the most of

Florida. People

living here have

very thick accents,

making conversation

interesting. One of

them is Gator Bill. Usually he is found camping on

the Swanee River. Many of the locals are oyster

H M R R 1 5 K“It is $6.00 to race, and membership is

$12.00, and then races are free or discounted.”

Tough sell, but effective; almost everyone who

came to the race became a member. Jim

Cunningham and Dave Natale are now members

and ran the 15K on a cold January day. The

race started at the University of Albany campus

and then headed over to the state office

campus. The hairy gorilla welcomed everyone to

the starting line. He didn’t run, but Dave ran a

1:17:43, and Jim ran a 1:23:00. Pictures follow

in the next page.

C h a m p l a i n C o n n e c t i o n

b y D a v e B u r r o w s

I have been in touch with one of my professors

who is associated with the Green Mountain running

club on the other side of Lake Champlain. He

would like to get together some time to see

if maybe we could get the 2 clubs together.

He stated that he had access to some money

for an event of some kind. We talked a little

about maybe a training session possibly on the

Castleton campus. This has nothing to do with

the XC team. Let me know if it is something that

you think we should follow up on. All we plan to

do is throw some ideas around, nothing definite.

This small club has athletes interested in training

for marathons. He himself does some ultras. The

club also has interest in triathlons. HMRRC and

the ARE collaborate effectively. Would this help

members of both clubs?

fishermen. Home-made boats sit in the shallow

Apalachicola Bay. Men with oyster rakes ply the

bottom. Ninety percent of Florida’s oysters come

from here, and ten percent of the US’s. Slash

pines line the road of this reef. Dolphins play in

the surf on the Gulf side, as they listen to my

running shoes. Osprey and pelicans play on

the bay side. Soon my running shoes will head

northwest to Tuscaloosa!

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