Age will be served

September 15th, 2009 at 11:43am Mike DeDoncker

I’ve been trying to support our copy editor Sadye Scott-Hainchek with tips from my 28 or so years of running experiences as she prepared for her first half-marathon run.

Her blog reminds me of the weekly columns I wrote 11 or 12 years ago — as in long before anyone thought of blogs — about training for my first marathon. I’ve also been assigned to edit her Get Running (http://blogs.e-rockford.com/getrunning/ ) blog posts for use on our Sunday HealthyRockford.com page so, when she wrote in her description of her finish in the Waterfront 5K that she was passed at the end “by a man who looked almost old enough to be my grandfather” I left that in because it was a nice bit of color.

Besides, we guys who actually are old enough to be grandfathers of young adults have to stick together.

I didn’t think anything more of it until the guy who passed Sadye identified himself to me this morning. It was Ed Clucas, one of my old running buddies. He, of course, was good-natured about the mention but expressed no sympathy for Sadye.

“Hey, competition is competition,” he said.

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