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Show I ," - ? 1 I : I ii 7 ' ' I ' ; ' f V " ' - - . i , - - 1 -i ' " - ' I ' I ' " . 1 LaVar Davis runs for his life literally. A heart attack threa years ago changed his lifestyle. He traded cigarettes for a sweatsuit and today is healthy, wealthy, and wise. (Well, almost!) Milford Giroois eall Jogging Eniboinoio blessed with "smart feet" which adjust to various obstacles ob-stacles and keep us on our toes at all times. In that case, my feet have an I.Q. of about 45. Mary Wiseman runs at 4:30 a.m., but if you run at 6 a.m. now, you'll be greeted by meadowlarks and a gorgeous sunrise. Of course there are the Encounters of the Stinky Kind. LaVar Davis was jogging jog-ging long a deep rut one, morning and noticed a skunk loping along with him in the other rut. LaVar La-Var put his gears in an abrupt reverse, and managed escape from his furry, striped strip-ed friend without "raising a stink." So you see, it's time to put your best foot forward. As one literary giant put it: "Spring is Sprung, the Grass is Riz, We wonder where the Joggers Is!" Slogging through snow and doing the mud-hop around chuckholes are now past it's time to lengthen your stride and go that extra mile see you on the turf! By Terry Madsen What do Dr. Symond, Neil Bradshaw, Jo Killam, Blake Madsen, Sidonia Whiting, Leon Gay and Vilate Lang all have in common? They, plus several others, hotfoot hot-foot it along Milford's various terrains in other words, they jog, walk, sprint or crawl at least several times a week. Why would anyone trade a warm bed for tennis shoes at 6 a.m. each morning? Sidonia began her brisk, four , mile an hour walks on doctor's doc-tor's orders, but now she does it because she feels so good. Jo Killam loves the quiet time to herself, and the glimpses of cottontails cotton-tails and "Cute little skunks". I run because I love to eat, and the one tends to cancel out the other. But most joggers and walkers enthusiastically agree that those few minutes of toil turn into energetic hours, self-confidence and healthier health-ier bodies. Many Milforites would . gladly jog except that their beds reach out and grab them in the mornings when they really want to be outside footloose and fancy free. Even local joggers fall prey to the "Prisoner of Bed" Syndrome. I came back from an invigorating run one frosty morning to find my usually ambitious husband snuggled under a mountain of blankets. From somewhere some-where down under the covers a feeble little voice declared: "An important part of jogging jog-ging is getting enough sleep each day!" Another cop -out for not jogging is cold weather. Nonsense just add more layers of clothes. I ran on one of those 20 below mornings morn-ings and did fine of course, I had to backtrack when my nose dropped off, but it thawed thaw-ed later in the week. Some people think you can't run in the dark, but this is not so. According to Dr. Symond, we are all |