Running Log
is a portmanteau word; it combines the “B” February 18
with “limp.” The race ran down 2 miles to the
It’s dark, I head out in shorts and a tee shirt on
blimp
Vaca
Key, Florida. Vaca means cow is Spanish.
again. Amazingly flat! The
for a trip to Marathon Key, then to St. George
Early settlers of this key saw manatee in its
race was put on by the
Island on the Florida panhandle, and then on to
waters and named it for the sea cow. I head
Southernmost Runners, a
Tuscaloosa, Albama, and this is his log.
back and at the 6 mile mark, I meet Dave. He
member of RRCA. It was
January 23rd
and I continue to do another 10. Another long
an experience running a race at that latitude.
Three whistles. Dave and I are on Alexandria
run done! This time, not on a frozen road, but
This key is on the Tropic of Cancer, and Hawaii
Avenue as it intersects with Lake George. I am
on the back of a former coral reef.
is only 4 degrees closer to the equator. There
T
By Jim Cunningham
his La Chute Runner is packing running gear
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.
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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
tether
and
back
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
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