| Dennis Crowne Completes
Steamtown Marathon
On October 9, Dennis Crowne ran the Steamtown Marathon.
The well organized marathon is run point to point from
Forrest City to downtown Scranton Pa. School buses
take the 1,800 runners on a 45 minute ride to the Forrest
City High School where they are greeted by enthusiastic
students and cheerleaders. They wait in the warm gyms
and lunch rooms with plenty of bathrooms and port-a-potty's.
On the way back to Scranton they run through many small
towns with bands, cheerleaders and town folks cheering
for them.
A surprise for Dennis was at mile 20 where he was greeted
by three masked Wanderers with posters, cow bells and
weird dances. Petra Kretschmann (fresh off her Ironman
a week earlier), Megan Boyle (preparing for her two
marathons) and Susan Hurrey (with her broken foot)
made the trip to Scranton to cheer for their fellow
Wanderer.
Later in the run he noticed some writing in chalk on
the ground. Thinking it must have been the kids from
St. Joseph's Hospital he wasn't paying much attention
until he saw his name and a nick name only a wanderer
would know, Hot Hen.
But the big surprise came about 50 yards from the finish
line when he looked over at the three cheering Wanderers.
In plan view of all the downtown crowd they raised
their shirts to expose CR,OW,NE spelled out on their
bellies.
The marathon took 15 minutes longer (4:53) than last
year's Steamtown, probably because he was having so
much fun.
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