Emory Duick update

Emory Duick, the 71-year-old man who is running Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica, made it to Kingman, Ariz., in time for Thanksgiving, according to the Kingman Daily Miner.

He’s had a few setbacks, but nothing that lasts too long.

Duick was sidetracked for about nine days by severe pain in his sciatic nerve near Oklahoma City and again briefly in Tucumcari, N.M., after the pain returned, but it isn’t only physical pain he’s had to deal with.

In St. Louis, it was the 100-percent humidity. In Ford Leonard Wood, Mo., it was a pack of wild dogs.

He and his daughter will continue on the trip into California, which he says he’s doing to encourage fellow senior citizens to stay physically active.

UPDATE: Here’s another article by Journal & Tropics Newspapers Online. I’d sure like to know what Duick means when he says this, however:

“When I get into California, all of the old Route 66 roadway route is now private property, and I can’t go on it. So I’m going to stay near the route and run through the towns. I’ll go through the Mojave Desert. It might slow me down some, but I’ll adjust okay.”

I’m sure if that means that Duick was going to trudge on the ancient Old Trails Highway, which indeed is mostly on private property. However, much of  the traditional route of Route 66 in California is on mostly deserted roads where he’ll have to do very little running on the interstate, with the exceptions of going across the Colorado River and going down Cajon Pass.

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