Running for a Lifetime
75 and Closing in On 60 Years of Running
Running for a Lifetime
75 and Closing in On 60 Years of Running
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The Cocodona 250 2026

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The Cocodona 250 2026 began on May 4th at 5:00 am Arizona time and ended at 10:01 am on Saturday, May 9th, when Wayne Amo finished. He struggled in the last miles of the race and literally collapsed over the line, which you will see at the end of Stream 16. I watched the start of the race, as much as I could of most of the streams (except the overnight streams), and the “golden hour” from 9:00 am to 10 am Arizona time on Saturday. It is my favorite race to watch every year, and I already can’t wait until next year!

AUTHOR

Rich Dafter
Prior to May 1985, I was super fit and super healthy, routinely running between 50 to 70 miles a week. Between March 16th and May 5th 1985, I ran 34:32 for 10K, 57:46 for 10 miles, 53:20 for 15K, 27:38 for 5 miles and 16:26 for 5K. I was 34 years old. On May 17, 1985, at around 5:00 PM on a Friday night, I was driving home with my then five year old daughter and we hit a van broadside. The van had been stopped in the left lane of a four lane road with its left blinker on and unexpectedly made a right turn out of the left lane directly in front of us. That accident, although we both survived, in an instant, ruined my health and changed my life. On Sunday, May 19th, I ran the Midland Run 15K (which I had run and eventually would run or try to run, 13 years in a row) and ran 53:03.

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