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Days and my stomach rebelled. The theory: it had maxed out on its steady diet of GU. I switched to Real Food, and my tummy was as happy as could be. From that day on, I would take a GU about 40 minutes into each run but then would switch to nibbling on bread or a Great Harvest energy bar each 40 to 60 minutes after that.

Days and weird end-of-run dreams commence. On this day, the dream involved running while asleep and wondering if the miles would count since I wasn’t awake while running.

Percent of the towns we stopped in for midday breaks had a town park, and most of those also had a baseball field, restrooms, and running water. Degrees of corn, soybeans, and blue sky in Minnesota. I’m quite convinced that Minnesota has more corn than any other state.

Miles to get from Boulder, Colorado, to Lake Michigan. Thanks to Len and Jen, we were able to put our toes in the lake (all of the shoreline where we first arrived at Lake Michigan is privately owned). When I told Jen how far I had come to catch my first glimpse of the lake, she was more than happy to lead us through her yard to the lakeshore.

Road and trail miles were accompanied by squawking redwing blackbirds, skittery killdeers, and a plethora of wildflowers, dragonflies, and butterflies.

Experiences far surpassing anything I had imagined going into The Run.

Stay tuned for Part 4: Reflections Mp

Photo by Kendall Miller

Or how brain power won an Olympic race. From a 1912 Tip Top Weekly. Part 3 of 4.

DR. EDWARD H. KOZLOFF

Editor’s note: In the previous two issues, Dr. Kozloff introduced readers to issues of Tip Top Weekly that featured track & field stories starring the Merriwell boys. Tip Top Weekly was a popular nickel weekly for boys back in the early decades of the 20th century. In the first episode, our heroes were tapped to help represent the U.S.A. in the 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games. The first episode featured their adventures on the boat trip over and also detailed the first several Olympic events. The second episode expanded a plot twist, where a foreign criminal, Carberry, attempted on several occasions to undermine the efforts of the American athletes. Carberry’s attempts to foil the success of the team from America continue in this installment.

t was unusually quiet around Stockholm after Dick Merriwell’s surprising 400meter-hurdle victory. Despite this, there was disbelief that Carberry had given

up. The inspector and Merriwell had his smaller boat, and he had said that it would be taken back when he was ready.

Since Carberry had set so many traps for the American group, Merriwell and the inspector decided to return the favor. They put the craft in the water next to the American headquarters ship. Inspector Lane, with a gun and small club, and Bill Brady, the Yale catcher and Olympic shot put champ, lay concealed on the bottom. The regular ship’s watch kept guard, unaware of what was going on with the Yale men and former criminal Lefty Leyburn watching from different vantage points.

Despite this, three of Carberry’s men reached the Rhineland’s deck and overpowered one of the Yale men. They then continued around the deck overpowering the guards, eventually reaching Lefty Leyburn. Recognizing him and realizing that Carberry would want him, they threw him over the rail onto the small boat. As Leyburn landed, he fell on Inspector Lane, stunning him. Brady saw the three men coming down a rope ladder and was ready to take them on. However, the