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Spencer Zellweger enters 2017 IATVHSS season ready to compete for a top spot in the series.

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“IT IS AS MUCH of a mental game as it is physical because you start getting tired, but if you want to be fast, you can’t let that affect you. You have to stay focused for the full two hours. If you slip up on one little corner, they can roll up on you.”

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Spencer Zellweger of Macksburg works on the motor for his ATV, which he races in the IATVHSS series. Zellweger finished third overall in the points standings last year.

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MACKSBURG – Spencer Zellweger had a successful career as a prep athlete at Orient-Macksburg High School. He was a state qualifier in the 400-meter hurdles and helped lead the Bulldogs to an undefeated regular season during his senior year on the basketball court.

But his most successful racing days are just getting started.

Spencer competes in the “A” Pro Class, which is a payout class in the Iowa ATV Hare Scramble Series (IATVHSS). The racing series has more than 12 different adult classes in addition to youth ATV race classes.

IATVHSS is in its 14th year of racing.

The series was founded by Andy and Tracy Kyner in 2004 with the mission of creating a family-orientated racing series. The adult class races are two-hour endurance races, typically on a cross-country style, looped course.

During the 2016 season, Spencer was in second place in the point standings going into the final race of the season, but a back injury forced him to miss the race and finish the season in third.

Spencer, 28, works as an operation specialist for Kinder Morgan on natural gas pipelines. The company is based out of Houston, Texas.

As he prepares for the 2017 season – see the schedule – Spencer is healthy and ready to challenge for the top spot in his class.

Hare Scramble The type of racing Spencer does on his ATV is called hare scramble. The course is designed to test the races for endurance and technical skill over rough terrain.

“It is as much of a mental game as it is physical because you start getting tired, but if you want to be fast, you can’t let that affect you,” said Jason Stamps, who competes against Spencer in the same class. “You have to stay focused for the full two hours. If you slip up on one little corner, they can roll up on you.”

Stamps, 33, is a Diagonal native and started racing in 2011. He works at SIRWA in Creston.

Spencer and Stamps prepare for races similar to athletes in other sports. Diet and nutrition is critical to be able to compete for two hours.

“I try to get a good night sleep beforehand and eat a good meal,” Spencer said. “I drink a lot of water and Gatorade to stay hydrated.”

Nathan Baier of Creston graduated with Spencer from Orient-Macksburg High School in 2007 and raced with him for several years. He said Spencer is well versed on how to keep his quad running at peak performance throughout the year.

“You have two aspects to prepare for, the physical end and the mechanical,” Baier said. “You can’t just go for a run and lift weights because it doesn’t work the same muscles that you use during a race. The best thing you can do is ride, but that adds wear and tear to your machine,

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Spencer Zellweger competes during an IATVHSS series race. Zellweger finished third overall in total points during the 2016 season.

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There are more than 20 competitors in Spencer’s class. The series is scored on points based on each individual’s finish. To be successful, racers must stay physically healthy to attend all the races and the ATV has to be durable to survive the season.

“We start with the engines off,” Spencer said.

“After the start, you take off and most of the track is through timber. The loop is usually 6 to 8 miles long.”

Spencer said getting a good start is important because the trail is typically narrow, making passing difficult.

“It is rough terrain,” Spencer said. “It really beats on your body, hanging on tight, going into corners and moving the four-wheeler around. The entire race you are flexed and tense.”

Unlike most of the other racers in his class, Spencer rides standing up for a majority of the race. This style gives him more control over the ATV so he can control it going into corners or if the course is muddy.

“I usually feel pretty good for the first hour, then it starts to set in and I start getting really tired to the point I feel sick to my stomach,” Spencer said. “You start to get dehydrated, especially when it is hot out.

During the last lap or two, you really want the race to be over because you are hurting so bad.”

A lot of the racers will plan a pit stop during the race, but Spencer prefers to go the entire two hours without stopping. He doesn’t like to slow down and give other racers a chance to pass him while he is stopped.

“Once the two hours are done, they throw the checkered flag and you finish the lap you are on,” Spencer said. “Even if you are only

30 seconds into a new lap, you have to complete it.”

He wears a Camelbak during the race. The small backpack allows him to carry fluids during the race.

The mixture is typically watered-down Gatorade to help him replace some nutrients without the sugar upsetting his stomach.

“Most of the time, I can’t even take my own socks off after the race,” Spencer said. “I cramp up really bad because I have to give it everything I have.”

Spencer earned his first win during the 2016 season at the Mount Pleasant track.

His favorite racing location is in St. Charles. The course is a short trip from home, so friends and extended family can make the trip to watch him race, and the course design plays to his advantage.

“It fits my racing style better,” Spencer said. “I am bigger than most of the people I race against, so Contributed photo by JAKE WADDINGHAM on open sections and faster tracks, they can out-power Spencer Zellweger of Macksburg works on the frame of his ATV. He is rebuilding his ATV for the 2017 season. Being able to work on the machine himself helps save money and it allows him to customize it to fit his riding style. me because they don’t have to carry as much weight.”

Whoops are a section of other out, which is really Friendly short, rolling hills. They can nice when you are 4 miles competition be a challenging aspect to away from civilization and One of the staples of a course because the ATV need a hand getting out of the IATVHSS is a fami- can respond differently if the mud.”

Baier said there are a lot ly-oriented environment. the rider hits them at a difStamps said his competitive ferent speed or on a differ- of families that will show up with kids, parents and friendship with Spencer has ent line. helped him improve as a “He is good enough, grandparents all racing in a racer. there isn’t a race or a course class throughout the week“You have to stay fo- he won’t be in contention end. The Zellwegers try to cused, but be laid back at the to win,” Baier said. “The pit next to Stamps and his same time,” Stamps said. “I tighter the track, the better family at each race. like to stay loose and joke he does on it. It all depends “They are just a super nice around; Spencer knows that on who shows up that day, group of people,” Stamps and he jokes around with if nothing mechanical hap- said. “They would give you me to help me stay relaxed pens during the race and the shirt off their back if it before the race.” who is on their A game.” would help you out.”

Stamps was an experiSpencer’s family travels The duo have worked on enced rider before he start- with him to a majority of their Hondas in the offseaed to become interested in the races to help him get set son to find the best combiracing. In addition to learn- up before the race, provide nation of power and resiling about handling the en- support and be ready in ience for the 2017 season. durance of a two-hour race, the pits if something on the “We have been texting he had to work on his tech- ATV requires attention. each other, trying to figure nical skills to maintain a fast “It really makes a per- out what we can change this pace. son feel good when you are year compared to last year,” “I have learned from coming around for anoth- Stamps said.

Spencer how to come into er lap and you see familiar The first race is schedContributed photo corners, approach some faces cheering for you,” uled for April 30 in Fort Spencer Zellweger, right, and Jason Stamps placed secwhoops, handle tight trees Stamps said. “Even though Dodge. The class Spencer ond and third, respectively, at a hare scramble race in and brake while still being we are out there competing, and Stamps race in typically the IATVHSS series in 2016. Zellweger finished the series fast,” Stamps said. third overall in total points. everybody just helps each starts at noon.

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CBA restores consistency in Creston basketball New organization sets up instructional sessions, local tournaments n

By LARRY PETERSON playing basketball, had CNA senior feature writer lpeterson@crestonnews.com

For several years, the only thing consistent in Creston basketball was change.

Frequent turnover in varsity head coaches created a void in the area of youth development in the sport.

Some local parents with children who had an interest in basketball saw a great model of success in their own backyard - Creston/OM’s state-championship level wrestling program fueled by a successful youth organization involving several qualified adult volunteers.

What the Express Club had done for wrestling in Creston, these parents thought they could initiate as a successful program for girls and boys interested in basketball.

Hence, the Creston Basketball Association was formed in the fall of 2016, spearheaded by school administrators Brad Baker and Scott Driskell, along with academic coach Trish Dickinson.

All three had children

experience coaching club teams that traveled, and had long-range plans to stay in the community. Therefore, even if there was any further turnover at the high school level, a program of building skills at the youth level could remain consistent.

The first year was considered a success as 178 children in kindergarten through sixth grades participated. The 3-6 grade youths met for six weeknights of instruction on fundamental skills, and an additional four 90-minute sessions with the high school coaches and players that incorporated some of those skills in smallgroup game competition.

In that respect, it was a hybrid of the weekly Saturday morning sessions with the high school players that Baker and Driskell grew up with under coach Mike Gerleman.

Financing The K-2 youths met after the start of the year for three Wednesday nights to learn the basics of the sport, but were not involved in the Saturday sessions. Cost was $40

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Trish Dickinson, coaching at far right, and Joni Gillam coach a sixth-grade team during the CBA girls tournament held Jan. 28. Dickinson is secretary-treasurer and one of the founders of Creston Basketball Association.

for the older group, which included a CBA T-shirt with local sponsors on the back, and $25 for the K-2 youths.

A total of 38 sponsors contributed $100 each to help

fund the program. “All three of us had taken kids to a league in Indianola, and we started talking about how it would be great to provide every kid in Creston an opportunity to learn the fundamentals and enhance their basketball skills,� said Dickinson secretary-treasurer of the CBA limited liability company.

Former Creston all-state basketball player and attorney Kyle McCann and his wife, Maggie, of Brick Gentry, P.C. law firm in Des Moines helped register the LLC, which removes individual liability.

The organization has raised $5,000 for the high school basketball programs, with more revenue expected, from a combination of the registration fees and lo-

cal tournaments that were held. All CBA coaches are volunteers, including the CBA founders. “We felt the turnover in high school coaches had been so great in the last five years that we could provide that constant skill-based instruction,� Dickinson said. “Then on Saturdays, the (high school) coaches were in charge of building on those fundamentals and letting them have some form of game play, whether it was 3-on-3, 4-on-4 or 5-on-5.�

Baker, who has had four children participate in youth basketball over the years, said he and Driskell had discussed the concept for a couple of years. “We knew the wrestling program was solid and the reason it’s solid is that they

are well-organized,� Baker said. “They are building a foundation for the kids not just for wrestling, but to be doing something. As basketball people, we were not organized and we relied on our poor (varsity) coaches who came in brand new to town to try to facilitate youth sports while also running their own busy season.

It wasn’t happening on a widespread or consistent basis.�

Driskell, with basketball children now in 11th and seventh grades, had worked in the Earlham school district that offered a weekly league for area communities. He agreed there was room for growth in Creston in that area.

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Wrestling model “We just felt it would be nice to have something a little more organized,” Driskell said. “Our high school coaches were always doing the best that they could, but it’s hard for them because it’s in the middle of their season. We needed to do something more consistent for the young kids.

You look at wrestling at the Express Club and the other side group that’s going, and you see that Darrell (Frain) is heavily involved and they have good people with good foundations in the fundamentals of the sport working with the kiddos on a regular basis. It’s really a tradition now, and you’ve seen how it’s paid off at the

“WE NEEDED to do something more consistent for the young kids.”

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high school level.”

Driskell said the ultimate goals of CBA are to provide skill development, a more organized approach to holding local tournaments and provide a resource for parents interested in coaching groups in weekend tournaments. Athletic administrators frequently receive information on such tournaments, and now there is a data list of parents with which to share that information.

“We wanted to develop something that emulated what wrestling was doing in that if you’re interested in basketball, by the time you get to middle school you’ve had plenty of opportunities along the way to work on fundamentals of the sport,” Driskell said.

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the varsity coach at the time, Driskell said, there was occasionally a year in the past when nothing of a broadbased nature was offered for the young kids.

Practice plans for those Wednesday nights were formed in collaboration with varsity coaches Ryan McKim and Taylor Phipps. Skills such as dribbling, passing, shooting and defense were learned in a variety of drills.

“In the first parents’ meeting, we told them if you came to watch your child play basketball games, that’s not going to happen here,” Baker said. “We wanted to use the time for instructional purposes. Then, they can take those drills home and enhance their skills.

Then on the weekends, they would reinforce those things and have the high school kids coach them. They still got the flavor of knowing the head coach and working with the high school kids they look up to. Each week we’d do the same things, but each time a little faster and add a new drill.”

Each age group got a chance to show their skills in halftime performances at varsity games throughout

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Larry McNutt officiates a game during the CBA boys tournament held Feb. 25. McNutt, eighth-grade boys basketball coach in Creston, was CBA tournament director.

the season.

Fundraising was streamlined through this process, as well.

“We believed in paying forward, so the money we raised was paid into the high school programs for their needs,” Baker said. “We contributed $2,500 to each the girls and boys programs, with a little more expected to come in. Those tournaments that we held continued to be the fundraiser for them that they were before.”

Tournament director Larry McNutt, current eighth-grade boys basketball coach and former girls varsity coach, had organized several youth tournaments in the past and became the CBA’s tournament director.

He lined up the officiating schedule and found teams to enter in the various age groups.

“Larry did a great job of organizing those tournaments,” Baker said. “He

has contacts in a lot of places and got a lot of teams to come here. He had the refs all lined up. Those are the kinds of things we were struggling to get any consistency with in the past. You want to have tournaments that the other teams respect, and that they want to return to in the future.”

Lastly, Baker, Driskell and Dickinson said the CBA can be a good resource for adult volunteers to form more teams from Creston to play in weekend tournaments elsewhere.

“I think there was a feeling that if you weren’t so and so, or friends with so and so, that your kid wasn’t going to have an opportunity to play,” Baker said.

“That’s not the way we want it. Now, we announce at our parent meeting that we can be a resource for anyone interested in doing that. We won’t necessarily coach your kids, but we have a means to provide you assistance in how you practice, how to set up a sched-

ule to use our facilities for those practices, and who to contact in those other towns to get registered. The CBA can facilitate that process for them.”

Based on the numbers from year one, the founders agree that it’s been a success and year two should run smoother.

“We have the practice plans for each session all set up now,” Baker said.

“So, now we’re at the point where we just need to get more people involved. We could always use more volunteers for those practice nights. We need adults to step up and keep this going.”

Information will be distributed in the schools next fall for the next set of CBA sessions, which normally begin in early November for grades 3-6.

“We’re excited that now every kid in Creston who’s interested will get the same type of instruction in basketball as anyone else,” Dickinson said.

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Brad Baker observes his seventh-grade boys team during the CBA tourament on Feb. 25. Local official Steve Birchard is at left. Baker is president and one of the founders of Creston Basketball Association.

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Joel Wires and Scott Helm have been instrumental in expanding the Southwestern Community College disc golf club since its inception.

For Helm, who helped launch the college’s club, bringing disc golf to SWCC was a way to get more students involved and provide them another opportunity to play disc golf among peers. And, Helm is a longtime disc golfer and member of the Creston disc golf league.

Around the time the club started, Wires, formerly a regular golfer, had begun to take an interest in disc golf and was quickly sold on the idea of helping with the club after a founding member, Mike Holmes, left SWCC. Helm and Wires became co-sponsors of the college club, with Wires taking the reins on the marketing side of it.

“Disc golf doesn’t take a lot of technical skill, and you don’t have to be cut like an athlete to play it successfully,” said Wires, SWCC marketing coordinator/designer. “You can just go out and have fun, and it’s sort of a small time commitment, so people can fit it in after work or over the lunch hour.”

While the number of club members fluctuates based on the busyness of students involved, Wires hopes to increase the number of members and keep a steady number in order to reach his goal of taking a team to the National Col-

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Joel Wires, Southwestern Community College employee and the college’s disc golf club co-sponsor, begins to throw a disc while practicing on a lunch break on a cold and windy mid-November day on SWCC campus.

legiate Disc Golf Championships, which is held in North Augusta, South Carolina, each spring.

“The winners of the tournament get some pretty decent scholarships,” Wires said. “Every year, there’s 50 to 60 teams from colleges all over the country that compete. Last year, Indian Hills from Ottumwa got second in the tournament. ... It would be awesome to take a team

that would place in the top 10, but at this point, the goal would be just to get a team that we can qualify to go to nationals ... and come back and have something to brag about and get more students in the club.”

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also try to get the club as involved as possible.”

Helm said the club has grown recently. At the club meeting this year, about 20 people attended versus around 12 last year.

“We’ve taken teams to qualifying tournaments to go for nationals for college level – and that’s community college and all divisions up to NCAA,” Helm said. “This year, we did not get to take a team because of conflicts with schedules, Helm but we usually take them to Ottumwa. We try to get them out playing other than just here in Creston. This spring, we have plans to get them around to other areas – Atlantic, Greenfield and other nice courses.”

Helm and Wires’ ultimate goal for the club is to build a competitive team.

Wires encourages students to be a part of community disc golf events, too.

“We’ve had some club members that have been in the Creston league,”

Wires said. “Right now, I think we’ve got one club member who’s played in some tournaments but not played in league. We’ve had club-sponsored tournaments and we’ve had people from league come to play in the tournaments.

Overall, the club is meant to get students involved in it and to grow the sport.”

Outdoors and indoors The SWCC disc golf club utilizes an outdoor course located on campus, as well as an indoor course that is set up for each annual indoor tournament held in the wintertime.

The college’s tournament is free to play in and a few small prizes are awarded.

It usually takes place in the SWCC student center and gymnasium, with nine holes set up that are played through twice and obstacles set up to make holes more challenging.

In the 2016 tournament, about 30 people participated.

“We’ve also had some doubles tournaments, and there have been some disc-challenge tournaments,” Wires said. “A lot of times, you show up and pay, say, $30, and you get two new discs and you play the tournament with those discs. We did one here with the club that was like that.

It was a two-disc challenge,

where we had a mid-range and a fairway driver disc and you paid your fee and, essentially, you were buying two new discs.”

Disc golf logistics Wires was a regular golfer from kindergarten through college and still plays occasionally.

“To me, disc golf is very similar. You tee off, keep going and you want the shortest amount of hits or throws to get it in the hole.

A lot of the terms are the same,” he said. “Having played golf for so long, there’s a lot of the mental strategy that transferred over to disc golf.”

He thinks disc golf is more of a challenge, though, because environmental circumstances can affect the game more.

“For instance, if you hit a golf ball a couple hundred yards with a 15-mph cross wind, it’s maybe going to drift 20, 30 feet if it’s hit well,” Wires said. “If you throw a disc 300 feet with a 15mph cross wind, it could drift over 100 feet or more. If you throw into the Wires wind, then it gets even crazier. So, wind is a big challenge.”

An advantage to disc golf is the ability to shape shots, Wires said.

“In golf, you can start to think, ‘I’m going to try to curve the ball around the tree’ or ‘I’m going to try to go over the tree,’ but

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Disc golfers play hole six at Southwestern Community College on a day following heavy rain in a summer 2014 tournament. Shown, front right, is Mike Holmes, former SWCC employee and an initial founding member of the SWCC disc golf club.

there’s only so much you can do because the ball can only spin so fast and can only curve so far,” he said.

“With a disc, by tipping it up and throwing it, you can make the disc curve and go through a space that another object, like a ball, would just not be able to do. If I’m standing where there’s a tree between me and the basket, I’ve got probably half a dozen different options of how I can deal with it.”

Wires has learned the main disc golf throws through YouTube and playing with friends.

“There’s really only about three different basic throws, so once you know what they are, it’s a matter of repetition and doing

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Just as there are different clubs for different shots in regular golf, in disc golf, there are different discs for different throws. Discs vary in shape and speed.

The slower-speed discs are meant to be thrown slower, so they won’t necessarily fly as far.

“If you throw a fourspeed disc at 50 mph – a somewhat hard throw – it will go, say, 250 feet,” Wires said. “With a different disc at the same speed, you’d probably get another maybe 50 feet out of it.

Also, the shape of the shot is different depending on the type of disc.”

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Disc golf can have a lot to it, or it can be bare-bones basic, Wires said.

“One of the better players in town, Austin Smith, he carries less than five discs with him, and he can beat a lot of people with those five discs,” he said.

Wires carries about 23 discs in his bag that he has purchased, been given or found.

But, many people can go out with a starter set of three discs – a driver, a mid-range disc and a putter – and play a decent game.

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Thursdays with the Webb Roofing bowling team

By KALEB CARTER

CNA sports reporter kacarter@crestonnews.com

Thursday nights at Pine Valley Bowl, right off Highway 34 on the southwest side of Creston have a familiarity that is apparent immediately when stepping into the alley.

There you’ll find a crew of five fellas with a table full of the night’s entertainment.

Dimes, nickels and quarters line the table in bunches. They also pile up in a jar. Fiv-e, 10- and 20-dollar bills rest in an assorted mess. Playing cards are strewn about. Resin bags, straps for wrist support, bottles of Budweiser, a Milwaukee’s Best can and Styrofoam cups with soft drinks litter the surface.

These are just a few of the things that preoccupy the attention of the men seated there.

Five gentlemen, in name of course, sit at the table.

They share casual conversations and laughs as friends and common foes trickle into the room for another night of the “Union” league.

The five men seated at the table, all Creston natives and graduates of Creston High School between the years of 1965 and 1967, proceed to meander about, get their practice bowls in and make conversation.

On this night, they’ve got pictures to browse through and a record book full of scores. Those scores were much higher for these men in their younger years.

1978. 1979. 1980. And so forth.

If you’re one of the five and bowl the highest 200 score of the evening, you get to pull $5 out of the jar. It used to be the case

that several people qualified with that distinction.

These days? They chuckle and tease each other at the idea of several of them throwing a 200-plus game.

On this night, winning is the furthest thing from their minds.

The Guys Jerry Willets, Harold Holliday, Ron Webb, Andy Allen and Terry Mullin sit at the table, bowling on yet another Thursday night. It’s been that way, or at least similar in formula, for 45 years.

Right now the team currently goes by the name Webb Roofing. They’ve gone by that name for around a decade. Before that, it was Kruse and Allen Painting and then McNichols and Allen Painting.

They’re supposedly aiming for 50 years. Whether muscle tears, arthritis or other causes intervene, they’ll be here at least once a week every week from September to April.

Jan Jones, a Pine Valley employee, has been watching them play together for decades. She has watched them participate in numerous Creston Parks and Rec leagues, be it volleyball (which the team claims to have dominated for a five-year stretch around 30 years ago), fastpitch softball, basketball and more.

She has watched them play at the old alley under where the current Eagles Lodge sits and the alley that went by numeous names where the current Family Fun Center exists on North Cherry Street.

Most of time there, the group’s league play started at 9 rather than competing in the earlier league at 6 p.m. So many nights were spent with drinks in hand, telling stories and going wherever the night took

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Pictured is one of many lively conversations between the members of the Webb Roofing bowling team. Seated at left is Jerry Willets, and at right, Terry Mullin. Standing are, from left, Ron Webb, Andy Allen and Harold Holliday.

them after.

Of course, they couldn’t drink at the alley underneath the Eagles Lodge.

At Pine Valley, Jones has been taking their drink and food orders for years.

“They walk in the door and I head right to the cooler,” Jones cracks. She smiles wide at the thought.

“They make my night.”

Throughout the evening, as Jones picks up cups and collects money from the team members, they rag on each other, offering up silly, sometimes crude jokes, funny to them as a group more than they ever would be to any stranger.

“They just like to tease,” Jones said. “And they get it right back.”

The jokes are a typical part of the night, where everyone who walks in the alley is sure to walk past the team and offer up jokes, a pat on the shoulder, or perhaps slip slyly behind and hold a cold beer to the top of a bare or balding head.

Bill Stuart, a longtime participant in the local bowling league, has been at it around 50 years by his estimate, and has bowled against and shared a friendship with the members of the team almost the

entirety of the team’s existence.

They all have gotten together for poker, and for memorable evenings full of drinks and laughs.

“That got interesting too,” he says with a gleam in his eye.

According to Stuart, “They’re a good group of guys.”

The camaraderie the group of five themselves share is on full display

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Harold Holliday cracks a smile and drops a coin into the team’s money collection as After serving and picking up drinks for the team for years as a Pine Valley employee, Terry Mullin whispers something in his ear while bowling on yet another Thursday Jan Jones knows to expect teasing from the Webb Roofing team every Thursday night. evening. Pictured in the back right (seated) is Ron Webb.

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league’s participants already gone, Mullin knocks down nine pins, leaving the five-pin.

Most of the table throws their hands in the air.

“If you want a free beer, you have to throw your hands up after somebody leaves the five-pin standing.”

That’s not the only money riding.

Cards present a dizzying array of possibilities to nickle and dime each other.

Literally.

A gutterball will cost you a dollar. For splits, everybody will toss a dime in the jar.

There are more rules that will make sense if you spend more time around the Webb Roofing team.

They’ve got to have some money for the team activities that have helped them bond over the years.

Plenty of their money that goes in the jar each night goes to a special fund.

That fund takes the five to wherever a state bowling tournament is being conducted. Be it Davenport, Cedar Rapids, Sioux Center, Burlington — the gang goes every year using the money collected from the group from each Thursday night league match.

From there, they’ll compete in the tournament after having pre-selected a local gambling establishment.

Every year, the Kentucky Derby and the state bowling meet coincide. So what do Jerry, Terry, Ron, Andy and Harold do?

They gamble with the money collected during the season, of course.

Andy has the task of being the treasurer of the group, and he ensures they have the money to book a hotel, pay an entry fee, and put money down on the horses.

Past shenanigans at state bowling include a separated shoulder, plenty of fine dining and drinking, guy time and an incident involving certain law enforcement that goes unspecified.

But they all know which incident the other is talking about in that instance.

“Nobody went to jail” they all agree, laughing.

What are trips like those without stories?

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But as long as it doesn’t take too much effort, they’ll be there with one another.

Harold recently had surgery on his shoulder. He hopes to start getting back into form to jump out on the links with his buds as the weather warms and Webb Roofing takes its leave from the clank, rattle and boom of organized league bowling for a few months.

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‘Our racing family’

By KALEB CARTER

CNA sports reporter kacarter@crestonnews.com

Racing families are nothing unusual.

Go to any track, whatever race it may be. Wherever you go, you’re likely to find family members racing one another, rooting for each other, or just being supportive.

Dusti, Dillon and Dave Carlisle are one of those groups of racers in a family affair.

“You have to have family support,” Dave Carlisle, owner of Carlisle Automotive Repair Inc., said. “The amount of hours you spend, time it kills. Basically, if you decide to race, that’s your summer. You don’t have time to do anything else. It gets in your blood. It’s hard to get away from it.”

The family has been involved in racing in some capacity since 1997.

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The Carlisles, from left to right, are Dave, Dusti and Dillon, all looking at race pictures on Dusti’s phone. To the right are Tro Fudge and Joel Wissler. Wissler is Dusti’s boyfriend, and both are members of what the Carlisles call their “racing family.”

ly comfortable in the car for about a year and a half.

In her first race? “I got flipped off,” she said, laughing.

Dillon, racing pro-street cars at around 95 miles per hour and despite some strong performances, says he only last year began to

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“They wanted to know how you’re supposed to drive the cars and you can tell them a little bit, but I’ve told them forever, once you get the feel it’s a seat of the pants thing,” Dave said.

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Both went to the races and sat with mother Lori Fletcher as children.

So when Dave got back out to the track after seven years out of commission getting the business off the ground, the kids went back out with him. He got back in his A-mod and was off to the races.

Soon, Dusti and Dillon were on the track. Dusti started first at age 16.

Her father had to convince her to get into it.

“I said I would and tried to back out,” Dusti said.

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In the summer of 2016, Dave, 45, and son Dillon, 18, raced in Harlan rather than Corning due to purses going down at Adams County Speedway (ACS), a NASCAR-sanctioned track.

Dusti, 22, a staple of the ACS in Corning in years past, was finishing up her remaining 15 credit hours at Northwest Missouri State University last summer in her pursuit of an ag business degree while working 60hour weeks.

Dave was a mainstay at the track for about a decade before bowing out to pursue opening the automotive shop.

That time on the track in Corning was from about 1997 to 2004.

The racing bug was, at that point, at least resting in young Dillon and Dusti.

But neither had done a lot of racing as kids. Dusti had done none before getting on

of love for the sport of racing from the Carlisles.

All have reached the winner’s circle, holding aloft trophies marking their proficiency in the sport.

All have put in their own work on the car, though Dave puts in more hours on the car than any, and pays the way for the kids to race.

It is not an inexpensive hobby.

Tires, which frequently get replaced during races, can cost more than $150 a pop. Then there’s towing the cars; transportation to and from the track.

Dave estimated racing often costs $250-300 each night in Corning, and they’re lucky get $250, a ballpark figure for winning purses.

If everything goes smoothly, and that means no wrecks, no major malfunctioning within the car, you might get your money back with a strong finish.

“You’ll find that most of the people racing don’t care what it costs,” Dave said.

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This year’s design is part patriotic, part police officer appreciation. Red and white American flag stripes adorn the side of the car, and a state trooper silhouette sticks out beside the rear tires on both sides. She hopes to honor the lives of officers cut down in the line of duty, especially so after the killing of officer Justin Miller and Sgt. Anthony Beminio in Urbandale. Miller was a college roommate of the Carlisle’s cousin. The trooper silhouette also honors the father of Dusti’s boyfriend Joel (Wissler), who is a trooper in Carroll.

She’ll use the design of the car as long as possible.

A crash could mess up the design, but that’s a common enough occurrence.

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racing,” Dave added.

Hidden costs Each of the three have gotten past the anxieties surrounding racing. That doesn’t mean the bumps and bruises don’t keep coming.

Dusti has wrecked her car enough to receive incessant teasing from her family and family friends.

The “tree incident” is just one that comes quickly to her family’s mind. Dusti ramped off another driver’s left front end and went airborne over turns one and two and into the trees right off the track.

She’s picked up a concussion and a stiff neck more than a time or two.

Dillon has had the worst wreck of the three of them

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two summers ago in Harlan. Dusti recalls frantically trying to get to her brother and being restricted from doing so, but he walked away from the wreck.

In another instance, Dave had a mechanical issue that sent him into the air at a speed of around 100 mph. He estimates he must

have travelled 150-200 feet in the air before hitting the track and bouncing another 75.

Each of the three have junked cars.

All of this makes Lori Fletcher nervous. She doesn’t have time to let it weight on her too much.

reason to expect to continue well.

“Everybody has a job when the affair.

Dave suggests he might it comes to the pits,” Lori even be racing to show the said.

The racing season, from ropes to grandkids someApril through September, where down the line.

Dusti and Dillon will at is a time of bonding, with so least do it as long as pops pays much time in the shop and for it; that much they admit. track together.

With a scrappy amateur They come together track of Dave’s creation still Racing family around the sport. being improved upon beside “A family that plays toLori, in addition to being the families’ home just outa worker in the pits for the gether, stays together,” Lori side Shannon City, they will Carlisles, is Dusti and Dil- says. soon have a track to practice lon’s mother and Dave’s Looking forward on at their discretion. wife.

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Creston disc golf league represents ‘all walks of life’

By KELSEY HAUGEN Special to the CNA

An eclectic mix of people, many of whom share little common ground aside from the sport itself, come together each week to participate in the Creston area disc golf league.

The sense of community developed among these contrasting individuals is one reason Austin Smith, Creston league co-sponsor and avid disc golfer, has been so involved in the sport for the past 10-plus years.

“I’ve played many sports throughout the years, but disc golf has by far the most variety in terms of social standing, personalities and backgrounds of the players,” said Smith, 33. “It is essentially white collar to orange collar, but everyone is on a level playing field as the discs soar through the air; the trees and water hazards don’t discriminate and neither do the chains. Disc golf is an excellent chance to get out, enjoy the fresh air and take in the scenic views of Union County.”

time, Street had mentioned securing funds and approval through the park and recreation board to install a disc golf course at McKinley Park.

“The course predated the tornado shelter and walking trail,” Smith said. “Jim liked to describe playing a round at McKinley as ‘a walk in the park.’ The course was set up to be user friendly and accommodate less-seasoned players. With the exception of a few holes that play along Lake Shore Drive, the course is easy to navigate and locate your disc after each throw – little to no ‘rough’ to lose your disc.”

At the time, Smith was back in Creston for summer break from Iowa State University, where he had begun playing disc golf. He eagerly agreed to help install the baskets for the 18-hole McKinley course.

The course was set up with a front nine and back nine loop, which start and finish at the club house.

“Austin taught me how to play right as the McKinley course was being put in,” said Joey Hoepker, 31, of Creston, who now helps run the league with Smith and Ben Lundy.

“I’VE PLAYED many sports throughout SWCC, Cedar Park courses the years, but disc After the McKinley course golf has by far the was created, disc golf began more rapidly in most variety in terms expanding Union County with the develof social standing, opment of two more courses personalities and – another 18-hole course at Communibackgrounds of the Southwestern ty College and a nine-hole course at Cedar Park east of players.”

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McKinley course A Creston native, Smith met Jim Street in 2006 at the old nine-hole course that was located at the former Creston Middle School. At the

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The SWCC course is a traditional campus setup that traverses the perimeter of the campus. The Cedar Park course was built on a 12-acre timber and nature preserve outside of Creston with the help of a grant.

“Joey helped a lot out at the SWCC course with build-

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Austin Smith of Creston, left, releases a tee shot in November on the McKinley Park disc golf course in Creston, while Ben Lundy watches on. Smith and Lundy took advantage of a 70-degree day in November to play a round of disc golf.

ing it,” Smith said. “Then, Joey, Ben and I spent countless hours clearing and grubbing under brush and timber to create the Cedar Park course. We would describe that course as more advanced.

The hole lengths are shorter but more technical – lots of chances to lose your disc in the water or in the rough.”

“The Cedar Park course is different than the other courses we’ve got,” said Joel Wires, disc golfer and co-sponsor of the SWCC disc golf club.

“Both SWCC and McKinley are pretty wide open; Cedar has a lot more trees and water that comes into play, which isn’t really an issue on the other courses. It’s fun and challenging.”

Smith said all three of these Union County locations have been well kept over the years, thanks in part to the disc golfers themselves.

“I’ve noticed the folks that

play disc golf either take better care of the parks or let people know when they’re withering,” Smith said. “They take ownership and pride of the courses.”

The league The Creston area disc golf league consists of around 20 people, give or take a few, and most of them live in Union County. Weekly play is on Tuesdays beginning in late May and runs for 10 weeks.

In the early years of the league, which started an estimated seven years ago, Street was in charge. He was the one who got the McKinley Park course started and began actively promoting the sport of disc golf, Hoepker said.

“Then, this past summer, Austin, Ben and I took it over,” Hoepker said. “We changed a few things up this year, where we made it more competitive with doubles. We also made it free. In the past,

you paid $5 every time you played league night. In order to make it available to people that just wanted to come and play and didn’t care about the money part, we made it free for them to just come have a good time. Austin and I also put our own money in for the winners at the end of the league.”

Smith added: “We switched to random doubles to make it more competitive and fun. If you weren’t a great player or weren’t really advanced, you could still play because you might draw a partner that’s really good, and it’s best shot.

Then, the top three scores paid out every week. I think we’ll probably do that this year, as well.”

Usually, the league hosts one event or tournament per season. In the winter, there’s an “ice bowl” disc golf tournament. There are also various non-league tournaments

held in Union County.

“We just want people to come and have a good time,” Hoepker said. “We always want more people to come out. We’d also like to have more tournaments; that’s something that’s kind of been down, especially in the summertime.”

Hoepker said there has been talk of building another course at some point in the future. They have considered one at Three Mile Lake or in Corning, but no concrete plans have been made.

Smith and Hoepker’s main goal is to promote the sport further and prove it’s a sport nearly anyone can play.

“The age range is pretty varying, probably from 16 to 60, and we get folks from all walks of life,” Smith said.

“It’s a chance to socialize with folks that you’d never even think you’d be associated with; the common interest is disc golf.”

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CORNING — After taking a step back for several years, Clay Mercer is back at it.

Mercer’s life revolves around cars, and he plans to devote nearly every weekend to racing at Adams County Speedway in Corning.

“It’s just kind of the way life took me, I guess,” Mercer said.

Mercer, 30, is a 2005 graduate of Corning High School.

He attended Central College in Pella for one year and Southwestern Community College for three years, where he double majored in collision and automotive, eventually earning an associate degree.

Right after college, he began working at Don’s Body Shop in Lenox, owned by Don Chapman, and has been there ever since. Recently, he took over the business from Chapman, which was one of the factors forcing him to slow down his racing during those years.

But, he’s picked it back up.

Racing Mercer would have been about 22 or 23 years old when

“I started racing my last year of college, last two years maybe. I started in ‘09, and they kind of worked together,” Mercer said. “I always wanted to race since I was a little kid, but my parents didn’t like the idea, I guess.

They weren’t fans. So I was kind of a late bloomer coming into racing.”

His first practice race was in 2009 at I80 Speedway in Greenwood, Nebraska, and after that he raced every weekend in Corning.

“That’s where I kind of cut my teeth,” Mercer said. “I raced mostly there for the first three or four years and then kind of started doing other stuff.”

Mercer races the pro-stock car class, which has a rules package based on the stock production car with full frame modified slightly for racing.

Assisting Mercer get his feet wet was Ross Griffith, who owned Mercer’s car for several years. He nudged Mercer into the pro-stock car class and assisted him with the work on the vehicle before races.

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during races. Since then, Matt went to another racer and Mercer now has the mechanical assistance of Troy Brown.

Mercer also thanked the sponsors of his car: Freeman Construction, Ross Griffith with Nuclear Sonics, Steadman Farms, Don’s Body Shop, H Bar D Trucking and Ramsey Grinding.

Corning In April 2009, Mercer ran his first race in Corning.

“We had a lot of wrecks.

Kind of got tore up in bad situations, but we’ve had good years. I can’t recall all my points finishes, but we’re not real good at points racing,” Mercer said. “We just kind of go out for wins. We’ve come a long ways from where we’ve started.”

That first year, Mercer learned a lot of the basics, such as car control and general upkeep. Since then, the work has been more in-depth, focusing on things such as the engine, shocks and tires.

“It’s gone crazy since then,” Mercer said. “I wouldn’t say it’s easier. Kind of the longer you do it, the more in-depth you get in the sport.”

Mercer placed first in the Bugeater Bash in 2014 and Spring Meltdown in 2015, both at I80 Speedway.

After about four years, life got in the way.

Mercer met his wife, Kristyn, and five years ago they had their first son, Briggs.

Their second son, Mavryk, came along two years ago.

During this time, Mercer also took over the body shop, so as a family they slowed the engine down.

In 2015, Mercer raced about 13 times, and in 2016, he raced about eight times. Now, his schedule is full with about 20 races, and he’s thankful for the weekends off throughout the season to break up the busy lifestyle.

“Kristyn helps when she can, and Briggs. Briggs is the designated car washer,” Mercer said. “He’s starting to have a lot of fun with it. He’s not real handy yet, but he sure likes to be there doing something with the car.

“If it gets bad this year, we’ll step back and take it easy if we have to. But, our intention is to go the full season.”

Mercer also said his goal is to win a tradition race before he closes up shop completely.

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Wilma Osmun was not an athlete when she was a student at Creston High School.

It was not until later in life the Creston resident became involved in regular exercise.

Those early walks around Creston turned into runs.

And they turned into something Wilma has come to love, both running in races herself and on training runs in and around Creston with her husband Duane.

She has become an accomplished distance runner, including having run the Boston Marathon and Chicago Marathon, along with the Des

“I’m like, ‘I don’t run.’

“So I thought I would give it a whirl.”

And give it a whirl she has since she started running in 2008.

Her distance wasn’t much when she first attempted it many years ago while Duane was doing runs in training for the National Guard.

“I tried it a couple of times and got a couple of blocks and was like, ‘I can’t go any further,’” she recalled.

She became a self-made runner.

“I just trained myself how to run,” Wilma said. “I never went by any program or anything. I got to doing it to stay fit.”

The more she ran, the more she enjoyed it.

“People ask, ‘Do you get the runner’s high?’” she said.

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Running has always been more of a hobby than a competition for the 57-year old.

“I’m not super competitive,” she said. “That’s part of why I love to do it. When I enter races, it’s not because I’m entering it to win anything. If I happen to place, super.”

“As long as I feel like I did a good run, I’m happy with it.”

Races are a natural outlet for all of the running she does.

“When I enter races, it’s not because I’m entering to win or anything,” she said.

“If I happen to place, super.

If I don’t, as long as I feel like I did a good run, I’m happy with it.”

She has never run to win, rather to enjoy the journey.

The more Wilma has run, she’s worked to increase her distance and lower her time.

“I set goals for myself to beat this time or go this distance,” she said. “I work on that sometimes.”

It even means running in lousy weather conditions, such as on a blustery early March day.

“When I ran it was windy,” she recalled. “I said when you run into the wind, then when you come back, you’re running with the wind. When you’re running with the wind, you’re working harder. It gives you a better workout.”

Wilma has become adept at running longer distances, particularly marathons. She estimates she’s run at least one a year every year since 2008.

In 2011, she ran in two of the biggest marathons in the United States: the Boston Marathon in the spring and the Chicago Marathon in the fall.

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The Des Moines Marathon holds a special place in Wilma’s heart. Twice, she’s been able to run the finishing stretch with her granddaughter Kohlie.

Those pictures are prominently displayed in Wilma’s house.

“You can’t get those memories other places,” Wilma said.

But when she started, she soon found out her times were very good.

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“I wasn’t athletic in high school,” she said.

Her body was suited to handle the running she has been active in later in life.

“I saved my legs and joints for the later years,” she said.

Wilma began walking as a way to stay active.

“I started out speed walking just to keep in shape,” she said.

A friend eventually joined her. Together they speedwalked the Dam-to-Dam 20K race in Des Moines and later that same year the Des Moines Marathon.

Wilma’s pace caught the attention of a couple of her coworkers at Bunn-O-Matic Corporation in Creston.

“They said, ‘You know, for as fast as you speed walk, you should run,’” Wilma said.

going to try to qualify for Boston?’ And I’m like, ‘No. Are you kidding?’ I said, ‘I’m not that fast.’ I never even looked into the times of it.”

In 2010, she was at the Des Moines Marathon. A pacer asked if anyone was running in the race to qualify for Boston. One lady said yes. The pacer asked her age. Wilma found out what time she’d need to run for her age group.

She finished that race in 4 hours, 9 minutes. The qualifying time was 4:05.

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By JAKE WADDINGHAM Special to the CNA

A blur of color and a whir of tires covering the ground quickly.

That is how Matt McCutchan of Creston likes to ride the single-track while biking on one of his favorite trails, Whiterock, near Coon Rapids. The trail is unqiue in the way it has random patches of sand, adding a higher level of technical difficulty for riders, especially at high speeds.

“You will be flying down a hill on the edge of control and then come around a turn and there will be 6 to 8 inches of sand on the trail,” Matt said. “If you are on a regular mountain bike, it would nose dive and probably go in a straight line and you would McCutchan fly off the trail. On a fat bike, you are able to lean into it (sand) and corner.

That was what really got me enthused about fat biking was biking there.”

Fat-tire biking is a new style of riding that is an alternative for the style of road biking that typically comes to mind with major events in the state like RAGBRAI. The frame is structured like a mountain bike, but the tires are extra wide to give the rider more control and handling options on terrain like gravel or sand.

“I didn’t get into fat biking until a few years ago,” Matt said. “I like to think of it as the Hawaiian shirt of bicycles. You don’t have to dress up like Lance Armstrong to get on a fat bike, you just throw your leg over it, point it in a direction and ride.”

Background In 1991, Matt joined the Air Force and moved to Lubbock, Texas.

“One of my friends was in bicycle racing and I needed a hobby, so I started riding bikes with him,” Matt said. “I really enjoyed it; I could not believe you could go that fast on a bicycle. I started doing a little road racing. I was never that great at it, but I still just enjoyed going fast on bicycles with people. Generally, cyclists are pretty easy to get along with, so I made a lot of friends.”

The hobby transformed into a passion for biking. Matt traveled with several groups and friends around Texas and New Mexico to try different road bike and mountain bike races. Self proclaimed as “not very good,” Matt said his en-

joyment didn’t come from winning races, but in the experience of getting to go fast and enjoy the thrill of racing.

Matt moved back to Iowa in 1995 and started working at Greater Regional Medical Center in 1998. He has been the CFO since 2009.

Matt recently started going to Des Moines every other Friday and Saturday for classes through the University of Iowa for his Masters in Business Administration.

In his free time, Matt tries to find a variety of ways to get outside and be active.

He is not a fan of traditional workouts in a weight room or on a treadmill. His ideal type of fitness is an exploration of nature.

“I don’t like the work in workout; I would rather put some fun in it, whether that is fat biking, mountain biking or paddling down a river,” Matt said. “I want something that is mentally engaging. I like activities that are engaging in a way that fitness is a byproduct, not just the end goal, so I can eat the occasional donut and not put on too much weight from that.”

“I WANT something that is mentally engaging. I like activities that are engaging in a way that fitness is a byproduct, not just the end goal, so I can eat the occasional donut and not put on too much weight from that.”

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“If you are on a gravel road that has fresh gravel, you will hardly even notice, the fat tires just float on top of it,” Matt said. “If you are on snow that is not deep, it will go over that. It does expand where you can go a little bit.”

Matt cautioned that if you plan to ride on single track trails, make sure the trail is not too wet. Even a bike with fat tires will tear up and ruin a trail if the riding conditions are not correct.

“In Iowa, the dirt single track is very fragile, so if it is at all wet, the trail will be closed,” Matt said. “I would never encourage anyone to go out and ride in the mud because that ruins the trails.”

In addition to cycling, Matt enjoys getting out on the water and paddling on the Middle River and Raccoon River.

Getting started Alternative sports like cycling can have a high barrier for entry. While most people know how to ride a bike from childhood, using a bike as a form of excercise can be discouraging when potential customers see the price tag.

“If you don’t know what you want, don’t spend a lot of money up front,” Matt said. “Bicycles are just like anything else, you can spend $300 or $10,000, but you don’t get 20-times more bicycle. Get something on the low end. You can always sell it later or give it to someone

else to help get them started.”

Matt said the trail from McKinley Lake to the campgrounds at Green Valley State Park is helping more people get an easier introduction into biking. He added that recent events like RAGBRAI coming through Creston also motivated more people to try getting back in the saddle after a biking hiatus.

Alan Carr, park ranger at Green Valley, said the trail extension out to the campgrounds has been open for almost a complete year and it gets a lot of activity from joggers and cyclists.

“It is one of those projects that we have received and continue to receive a lot of positive feedback,” Carr said.

“People may not walk the whole thing, but they walk a

section, come back, try a new section, so the whole trail gets activity almost daily.”

Carr said the new section of the trail is popular because the trail users have an increased chance of seeing wildlife in the park. Carr added they plan to add mile markers to the trail and around McKinley Lake this year.

While Matt encourages all types of cycling, he tries to encourage first-time buyers to try out a mountain bike and explore the miles upon miles of gravel and dirt roads in the area.

“If you really want to get out and explore in the Creston area, a mountain bike or fat bike is the way to go,” Matt said. “There is not very much traffic and the scenery is nice.”

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“I go when I can and life can be busy, so it goes in phases of more and less,” Matt said. “I like to at the end of the day. It puts a nice mental gap on your work day and the rest of your day.”

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marathons was a moment Wilma will cherish forever. “There’s nothing like Boston,� Wilma said. The terrain along the course challenged Wilma. “It wasn’t an easy run,� Wilma said. “It’s hilly.�

Throngs of marathon patrons lined the course, encouraging Wilma and the thousands of other participants. “There’s people everywhere, so much to look at,�

Wilma said.

Duane and other family members went to Boston to cheer Wilma on.

They gathered at Boylston Street near Copley Square and

the finish line.

Having the support there made the day even more special for Wilma. “What was super nice was coming down the finish, when you see your family that stood there for over four hours waiting for you to come to see a glimpse of you run for maybe a minute,� Wilma said. “That meant a lot.�

Duane started running in the late 1980s as part of his service in the National Guard.

Back then, Wilma joined him, albeit on a bicycle.

Once his time in the National Guard was complete, he backed off running for approximately 15 years.

Five years ago, the 69-yearold got back into running.

Now they run together. “It has kept us in good

shape,� he said. Running together makes it more enjoyable. “I like being with her,� he said.

He admits who is faster. “We’re a different pace,�

Duane said. “I’ll never catch her.�

She’ll finish races before he does.

Wilma becomes a cheerleader for Duane as he finishes. “She’s there to boost me on,� he said. “She’ll come ahead of me, clap, say there you go.�

Still, the runs have a purpose. “It’s keeping yourself in shape,� Duane said.

He hasn’t matched his wife in overall distance — yet. “My goal some day is to

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run a full (marathon),� Duane said. “I’m content with halves, 5 and 10K’s.�

He’s run the Market-to-Market relay run a couple of times as well.

They run the local races as much as possible.

When time and schedules allow, they look for other races. “We try to vary things,�

Duane said. “When you go to one four, five times, you want to look around, see something different. “These days you can find something different to try.�

Races provide a challenge for him to overcome. A quote he saw one year at the Damto-Dam race in Des Moines provided the perfect motivational tool. “There was a picture at the

start of Dam-to-Dame that said, ‘I may not be the fastest, but I will finish the race,’�

Duane said.

He feels a rush when starting and finishing a race. “There’s nothing like lining up and hitting the start and working your way to the end,� Duane said. “When you cross that threshold, you finish something. There’s a sense of accomplishment. “It doesn’t have to be the fastest, the best.�

Duane keeps his objectives simple. “My goal is mile-to-mile,� he said.

There are days where running is not always easy, but he keeps running. “It can get painful,� Duane said. “I do push myself. Some days are not good.�

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Wilma provides needed motivation for Duane. “In the end, it comes down to I like being where I’m at with her,� he said.

Even approaching 70, he still relishes running. “The older I get and am still able to do it, that’s an accomplishment,� Duane said. Running has also helped him stay fit. “I got terrifically overweight at one time and lost it all,� Duane said. “Running has kept me back where I’m healthy.�

For Wilma and Duane being active, no matter what, is important, he noted. “That’s a big thing is you’re out doing something,� he said. “I don’t care what it is — walking, running. Being active is great.�

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Mark Hayes ran with his children when they were younger, in an effort to get them involved with the sport.

A number of years passed by. He had stopped running regularly.

It was an inquiry from his daughter Dawn that sparked Mark’s desire to start running regularly once more.

He’s been doing so ever since.

He began running regularly after retiring from a 42year career with Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad.

“My daughter got me started running,” Mark said. “She wanted me to start running with her in races.”

They started training and running races together.

“I started training,” he said.

“The first couple of years we would run together.”

The more he ran with Dawn, and others in Creston, the more he fell in love with it.

“It’s like anything else in sports, you get addicted to it,” Hayes said.

He picked running back up after a long break.

“When the kids were in high school, I’d go run with them,” Hayes said. “I used to take them out before they were in high school, tried to get them in running.”

Distance running later in life was something new for

the Creston High School graduate.

“I didn’t do over a 220,” Hayes said of the old 220-meter sprint that high school athletes ran many years ago.

“I didn’t run long distances.”

Now he does.

He’s run and won a number of events, including the Pump and Run event in Winterset and other races locally.

The Pump and Run is an event where for every rep participants do on the bench press, 15 seconds is taken off their run time. Up to 40 years old, one has to lift their body weight. The amount of weight is reduced as age increases.

Hayes has worked himself back into shape after having to take eight months off because of an Achilles injury.

Before the injury, he noted he was in quite a bit of pain.

The pain has subsided since surgery.

“It doesn’t hurt me like it used to,” Hayes said.

The more he participates in runs around town in competitive events, the better his time and form are.

“Time spent running is what makes you a good runner,” Hayes said. “It doesn’t have to be fast. You just have to build up the endurance.”

Hayes often runs with other local runners, such as Duane and Wilma Osmun and Jonny Ytzen.

All four ran together at the Leprechaun Chase race earlier in March in Des Moines.

The race was shortened from a 10K to 5K because of snow on the trails at Gray’s Lake Park.

Because the race was shortened, Hayes, Wilma Osmun and Ytzen then ran 10 miles the next day.

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Often, Hayes joins the Osmuns in pre-dawn runs in and around Creston.

Those early runs are satisfying in a number of ways, he noted.

“In the summertime, it’s not hot. The sun comes up with you when you’re out there running,” Hayes said.

“Right now it’s pretty cold, but the wind is usually calmer at that time of the morning.”

Having the companionship on the runs makes them more enjoyable.

“If you have ever gone out and run five, 10 miles on your own, it’s not fun,” Hayes said. “If you’ve got someone to run with, the time goes so much faster.”

He likes to converse during those training runs.

“They say if you can’t talk while you’re running, you’re running to fast,” Hayes said.

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Hayes has run numerous fastest time in the 5K was 20 in his living room and other “There’s a lot of camarahalf marathons, 10K and 5K minutes, 18 seconds, around rooms in his south Creston derie between all of the runraces. He’ll run the Grand 45 minutes for a 10K and 1 home are proof of how well ners,” Hayes said. “You talk Blue Mile and the Drake 5K hour, 38 minutes for a half. he has competed, it is other to people, see how they did.”

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