We’re All Runners in the Ultramarathon of Life

We’re All Runners in the Ultramarathon of Life
Even though running a marathon is an individual sport, each runner performs best when backed by a team of supporters. Biba Kayewich
Jeff Minick
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When my oldest son told me that he intended to run the Daytona 100, a 100-mile ultramarathon in Florida from Jacksonville to Daytona, I thought he was nuts.

A cluster of fatherly cautions popped to mind: What if you permanently damage your knees? Shouldn’t you get a doctor’s OK first? What if you drop dead?

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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