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World Run I / ReportsGoto: 2005-06-19 2005-06-21 USA 2005-06-20:Distance today: 50.0 km (Accumulated: 22894.0 km) Country: USA 2005.06.20. [Warren; cross of N. 2 ND. Street (= Hwy. 75) & E. Eau Claire Ave] - [Crookston; cross of Hwy. 2 & Hwy. 11, 1km East of cross of Hwy. 75 & Hwy. 2]. 50km, 5:08:08h. Excl. food, water, road-finding, toilet etc. stops Total 22853km. Start: 10:00am. Finish: 16:14pm. Time GMT - 7 hours +22c, overcast and light wind at start. 29c, half overcast and same at finish. A longer but none the less good stage on the Hwy. 75, South across the long open farm fields, only divided by small lines of trees every 5-10km, most likely to shield for the wind which can be quite strong out here like on the prairies up in Canada. The heat is picking up and I suspect that is one of the reasons that the legs are beginning to feel fresher again. The warmth helps ease the tiredness/stiffness in the muscles and make a big difference to running in cold weather or even cold rain when there is 1 1/5 years of running sitting heavily in the body. About an hour from the finish a car stopped and informed me that there were people waiting for me at the Minnesota University in Crookston - who had heard about the run from Frank in Winnipeg (who has done an amazing job alerting people along the route and keeping track of my progress - thanks again Frank!!). So near the finish there was in interesting talk about the run and impressions of Siberia, Australia and different part of America. For me it has become obvious that there is an even greater difference in mentality between different parts of USA than I had imagined. The running here in Minnesota through small farm towns and open fields has been filled with meetings with friendly people who has plenty of time to take care in each other and enquire with a positive curiousness into strangers that pass through. Often they alert the local media which on one occasion arrived 2 minutes later :-) It is very positive to experience the relaxed attitude and unsuspicious ness that I am met with here and I obviously am quite happy with the decision to run through also this part of the USA instead of "only" doing the west coast and the short stretch from Toronto to New York. This not the say that the run up in Canada wasn?t positive - my impression of the Canadians is that they are amongst the most friendly people I have met along with the Australians, the people in Siberia and of course the Finland people - but it would have been a big loos for me to run North America with only California as my main impression of America. This part of the USA isn?t one of the big tourist areas for certain, but it would be nice if it was more visited by foreigners, as I guess it could show many people - for example Europeans - how friendly and relaxed the Americans also can be :-) PS: Tomorrow will be a rest day here in Crookstown as I have to make sure I pick up the new cell-phone shipped in from Denmark to Moorhead/Fargo and with the present progress I would arrive a couple of days before the package. If things go well I should pick up the package the 25.June and from then on have hourly online picture from the run on this page again! ! |
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