And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 20:14:16 -0400 From: Albert RunningWolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Fwd: Run for Freedom 3] : -- Albert Running Wolf Chairperson A.I.M. Central Indiana Support Group P.O. Box 102 Brookville, IN 47012 765 647-5362 (fax & voice mail) 765 647-4947 (personal) ...still strong in the spirit and in the struggle! Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 16:31:37 -0400 From: james toren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Run for Freedom 3 I hope you enjoy this please forward it to any one you think might enjoy it. Peace Jim Run for Freedom 3 DAY 1: COVINGTON KY. TO ROCKVILLE IN. APPROX. 146 MILES The day started off with the threat of rain but that soon went away the first situation that we had to deal with was the fact that the first day we only had 14 runners. So it was decided that we would run what we could in the morning and then everyone would meet at that point and run what we had to to cover the rest of the miles. Kathy volunteered to be our advance person what her responsibility was was to go ahead of the group and get our campground and start the evening meal when the first group of runners came in. She did a GREAT job and I would like to personally thank her very much. After the circle and a prayer by Ammon the run started. The runners were Mike, Heather, Jim, Curtis, John, Sean, Ammon, Fred, Roger, Willie, Miki, Marcus, Terry & John. The first day was a good day. I stopped in the small town of Brookville IN. and had a good reception from Albert and his wife Fran with the Indiana AIM support group and the local newspaper. The support group donated some money that paid for our first 2 overnights Thanks Guys!!!! Dan Baylog and family donated enough money to feed us for a few nights Big Thanks to the Baylog family. At the end of a long day all the miles had been covered it took us 12 hr. we will work on cutting down the time tomorrow. After circle and the evening meal sleep came soon. I would also like to congratulate Fred 5miles and to thank him for all his encouragement over the years. DAY 2 ROCKVILLE IN. TO ROCHESTER IL. APPROX. 100 MILES This was our shortest day only 100 miles. We all said good bye to Fred who after running his miles for the day had to return home. So today we are down to 12 runners. Which wasn’t bad but it stile took us 10 hr. to cover the miles the problem was is that we were waiting for all the runners to get to the stopping point and then complete the miles this was not working. We decided to start running and figured if all the runners followed the marked roads they would eventually catch up the one thing we didn’t count on was while we were marking the rd. they might have already passed us or they couldn’t see the signs in the down poor that we just received from mother nature. Well that’s what happened but, it didn’t matter we completed the miles and got back to camp. We had circle and our evening meal compliments of Kathy again and went right to bed. 5am comes early when your day isn’t over with until 12 am. Special thanks to John B. for donating this overnight. DAY 3: ROCHESTER IL. TO CARROLTON IL. APPROX. 118 MILES Now 118 miles seems great but the problem was it was leaving us with to many miles to cover on the last 2 days. Now the other problem was that we already had a overnight and meal taken care of in Carlinville IL. So by us running to Carrolton we already had to drive back 25 miles to the campground. We decided that we had to run to Mo. If not farther today or we wouldn’t make it by Friday so Terry’s mini-van was going to go ahead and cover the miles after Carrolton. Which they did all the way to Louisiana Mo. Even farther than we thought which was great news the bad news is we all got back to Carlinville and the over night was not taken care of and the meal was not taken care of. Disappointing but it was stile early and everyone pitched in after we set up camp we all rotated cooking while the rest of us took showers and looked at maps we decided that the best thing to do was to head down to rt. 50 and go as far as we could the best and really only camping was a place called Knob Noster so that’s were we would shoot for 193 miles. Night came and so did the rain we had circle and then stood hovered around trees eating our dinners. Sean supplied us all with a good laugh when he came out of his car with an umbrella and 2 small maglights attached to his head he looked like an alien coming out of the woods it was funny! After the meal me and Ammon ran into town to make some phone calls then back to home for a wet nights sleep. DAY 4: LOUISIANA MO. TO ? Now the reason for the question mark is because we had no idea how far we were going all we knew was the farther we ran the closer we were to the finish and being able to get to the conference by 5pm. Kathy had to leave us this morning so we said good bye in circle and thanked her for the terrific job she did for us and then left camp. We had to all drive for about 1 ½ hr. to get to the starting point. The only problem was we couldn’t run into Jefferson City because the bridge was restricted later that afternoon after catching up to Terry’s vehicle I found out that they got to the bridge and Marcus just not being able to accept the fact that we weren’t going to be able to cover all the miles because of the bridge ( something we were all having a problem with because we had come all this way so far) told Terry to stop as they were pulling back onto the rd. and Marcus ran across the bridge. We will cover every mile!!! Willie and Miki got lost a little and ended up having to go back and cover some miles while the rest of us kept running. We finished after dark and had competed 181 miles Heather caught up to us and helped us cover some of the miles. When I got back to camp Willie and Miki were not back yet and I started to worry every one had ate at restaurants tonight as to eliminate having to cook. Finally Willie and Miki showed up and they had had some problems not serious but more funny the way it worked was Willie would drop off Miki and Miki would run up to the truck and then drive up to Pick up Willie. Well Willie got to the 8 mile mark and stile didn’t see Miki he got to the 9 mile mark and started to worry then all the sudden a white taxi pulls up and its Miki NO KEYS it turns out that Willie had put the keys on the floor board of the truck and when Miki got to the truck he couldn’t find them so he made his way to a store and got the cashier to call him a cab and they drove until they found Willie. Willie told Miki and the taxi driver were the keys were and they went back to the truck while Willie finished his miles. When they made it back to camp the day was done it was late and we had 1 more day to go every one was felling pretty good and it was good to have Heather back on the run. LAST DAY: DRESDEN MO. TO LAWRENCE KS. APPROX. 112 MILES We got up at 5 am glad to know that we only had to do 10 miles apiece. And a little sad it has been a great run we came together and we did it we covered every mile. We had our circle and talked a little. Ammon like every morning said a prayer for us and away we went. Terry and his van went to the farthest point because we were unsure how we were going to maneuver through the cities. So as he dropped off runners he marked the rt. After my truck finished we made our way to Lawrence we were all meeting at Massachusetts and 15th St. and were going to finish the run together as a group. I was driving along and thought that’s kinda weird some bald kid emptying his shoes on the side of the road well we all had a good laugh over that one it was Sean turns out he had been waiting there because John was lost well just as we were considering what to do here came John so we loaded up and caravaned to Lawrence. We got to Massachusetts and 15th St. and there was every one waiting for us we were about 20 min. late but that was okay. The guys were talking to reporters and taking it easy. I was introduced to Cyrus Peltier (Leonard’s grandson) and his friend Lester we asked them to carry the staffs and led us off to the conference. We arrived to a very warm welcome from the people that were there we had a closing circle led by David Chief. Bobby Castile spoke and thanked us for the run. Each of the runners introduced themselves and said a few words. The run was over the conference was beginning and we were already talking about the next one. I would like to say to the staff at the LPDC and the staffs of the LPDC support groups GREAT JOB !!! It was a great conference. I would also like to thank all of you who kept us in your thoughts and prayers during this run. And would like to thank the runners for their efforts and prayers together nothing is impossible together we will see Leonard and all political prisoners Free. Reprinted under the fair use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
