2017 Features Archives Index

A Good Thing Comes to an End – Pine Run 1977 to 2006 David Yon,  I have run the fastest Pine Run I will ever run. And I have run the slowest Pine Run I will ever run. I have run it healthy and with good courage and I have limped through it with injuries. I...

New Management Excels at WDF 2007 David Yon,  Lisa Unger and Jo Lena Pace are fast becoming GWTC rising stars as race directors. In their second year as directors of the Women's Distance Festival they looked like experienced pros. Their efforts have this...

Breakfast on the Track – From My (Ad)vantage Bonnie Wright, Photo by Fred Deckert  I have a different view of the race in my tucked away corner compiling results, hoping that I don’t make a mistake, being guided quite ably by Judy Alexander, a long-time...

Breakfast on The Track - 2007 David Yon, Fred's pictures at: http://picasaweb.google.com/Freddecka/Breakfast7/Somewhere in the middle of the night Volunteer Extraordinaire, Bill Lott woke to the sound of thunder and flash of lightening and heard the down...

On Running a Race  By Lisa Unger,  Running a race has taken on whole new meaning as I begin planning my second year as Race Director of the Women’s Distance Festival. Nine years ago, running a race meant huffing and puffing and hoping to make it to the...

Yell "On Your Marks" and They Will Come David Yon, Photo by Fred Deckert Keep in mind that you can go to a meet at Mike Long Track for the FSU National Champion team and see fewer than a dozen or so spectators who are not either participants on one of the...

Fragments – It Is Our City so Tell the Story!  David Yon,  I hope you got a chance to read Jim Lamar’s piece in the Thursday edition of the Tallahassee Democrat. Lamar is the sports editor of the Tallahassee Democrat and he received an email from a reader...

Gary Griffin,   NY Times writer Kirk Johnson begins his book entitled “To the Edge – A Man, Death Valley and the Mystery of Endurance” (in which he describes his year of preparation for the 135 mile Badwater Ultramarathon), in this way: “At 4:30 on a...

David Yon, Muddy Buddy,  I started a journey where precise distance was unknown, whose rules I poorly understood and whose obstacles I did not fathom. Along the way I found great fun, camaraderie and a challenge. But most of all I found good fun.Before I...

By David Yon Determination was the watchword for the 2007 GWTC 30K and most of the finishers seemed to have lots of it - enough to dig down and find the strength to finish this tough race and enjoy a great spread that included three kinds of chili. The...

By Jane Johnson Author's disclaimer: When Fred Deckert asked me to write an article about training for a marathon, I cringed. I am not a marathon expert, and my training regimens are anything but scientific. However, when I was trying to get up the...

 The 2007 Bowlegs 5K experienced great weather and a fine turnout this year. As most of you know, this race supports the Faculty & Friends Club's scholarship fund. We thank both the runners and the volunteers for their support and help.Although the...

Breeda’s Favorite Books GWTC members recently listened to Breeda Dennehy-Willis's lecture about how to battle through injuries and get a healthy lifestyle back on track. Breeda listed a number of information sources and promised to make the list available...

Matthew Dobson (33:37) and Lara Shaw (37:23) lead 866 finishers around the Springtime course Saturday morning. Another 325 finished the one mile making it one of the largest Springtime races ever!Complete Results

Springtime Honor Roll - race director Judy Alexander says thanks the following list of volunteers who helped make Springtime...

GWTC has been a regular participant in the Relay for Life since the days it was staged at Leon High School – days when members raced ROTC teams through the night. There are many reasons for that support, but certainly a major one is the impact the cancer...

Dogs and Cars Get Washed For A GWTC Cause  Gulf Wind’s 2007 American Cancer Society Relay For Life team spent the day Saturday hosing down and scrubbing an array of canine characters and vehicles in a fun-filled fund raiser for the upcoming May 11-12 Relay...

David Yon, with a lot of help from Paul Hoover Every now and then you take a look at what you are doing – marking a course, worrying over details for a race, ordering trophies, working late at night to finish some GWTC project – and wonder “why?”. And then...

 Members of GWTC and the Tallahassee running community sent a banner to the Boston Athletic Association, the organizers of the Boston Marathon, letting them know that we were with them! The banner was signed by runners and volunteers participating in the...

David Yon, The lines snaked all the way back to edge of the Dupree Street and then twisted around to the north in a manner that would have made Disney proud. It reminded me of a couple Thanksgiving Day Races I have been a part of. An explosion occurs and...