{"id":109090,"date":"2017-08-25T08:39:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T12:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=109090"},"modified":"2018-07-27T15:15:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T19:15:28","slug":"10-rules-for-road-races-from-92-year-old-bud-horne-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2017\/08\/25\/10-rules-for-road-races-from-92-year-old-bud-horne-49\/","title":{"rendered":"10 rules for road races from 92-year-old Bud Horne \u201949"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bud Horne \u201949 didn\u2019t start running until he got to Bates. But once he started, he didn\u2019t stop. <\/span><\/p>\n

On July 29, the 92-year-old World War II veteran, Bates running standout, and retired Presbyterian minister ran the Chautauqua Old First Night Run\/Walk, sponsored by the Chautauqua Institution<\/a> in New York. <\/span><\/p>\n

Horne wore a Bates sweatshirt as he accepted the Young at Heart Award for being the oldest male finisher. \u201cI wanted to make sure everybody knew I was from Bates,\u201d says Horne, who is president of his class and, as student, was a track captain and a Maine state champion in cross-country.
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1. Greet your fellow runners and walkers with a cheery \u201cGood morning!,\u201d or, if huffing and puffing, throw a thumbs-up.<\/p>\n

2. Pick up your puppy\u2019s poop.<\/p>\n

3. Pick up trash and deposit it in the nearest can.<\/p>\n

4. Get out of the way of faster runners.<\/p>\n

5. Occasionally, slow down and enjoy the scenery.<\/p>\n

6. If raining, splash through the puddles with joyous abandon.<\/p>\n

7. If on a recreational run with a partner, go slow enough to carry on a conversation.<\/p>\n

8. Wear a cap if the sun is hot.<\/p>\n

9. If neither a runner nor a walker, line the route and cheer on the participants.<\/p>\n

10. Do not fail to register for the OFN Run\/Walk.<\/p>\n

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Horne has only missed a few of the races since they started 40 years ago at the famed Chautauqua Institution, a 750-acre education center and retreat where he lives year-round. He\u2019s won every race category for his age group, he says. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI still have all of the shirts,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\n\t

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Bud Horne, 92, holds his Young at Heart Award for being the Oldest Male Finisher at the Old First Night Run\/Walk on Saturday, July 29, 2017. (Photograph by Erin Clark \/ The Daily Chautauquan)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Bud Horne, center, talks to his friend, Bob Laubach, also 92, after the race on Saturday, July 29, 2017. (Photograph by Erin Clark \/ The Daily Chautauquan)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Bud Horne, 92, talks to his friend Carl Pegels, 85, after The Old First Night Run\/Walk on Saturday, July 29, 2017. (Photograph by Erin Clark \/ The Daily Chautauquan)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Bud Horne, 92, finishes The Old First Night Run on Saturday, July 31, 2017. Horne has been running in the race since it first started, over 40 years ago. (Photograph by Erin Clark \/ The Daily Chautauquan)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Horne dedicated the race to his wife, Betty, who died in June after 65 years of marriage, and their late friend, Peggy Ulasewicz. Three of the Hornes’ eight children are alumni: \u00a0Sandra Horne Marshall \u201976, Ian Horne \u201980, and Donald Horne \u201983.<\/span><\/p>\n

Competitive runners, of course, need to train and watch what they eat, but Horne refers the recreational runner to his \u201cTen unofficial rules for runners and walkers,\u201d a letter to the editor published in The Daily Chautauquan. <\/em>(He originally wanted to call them his Ten Commandments, but the newspaper told him not to, he said.) The Chautauquan<\/em> recently published an audio slideshow about Horne’s race<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

And \u201ckeep at it,\u201d he says. \u201cDo it as often as you can. Take it easy, don\u2019t strain, but do what you can.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

In the past few years, Horne has slowed down, he says. He walked some of this year\u2019s Old First Night race, finishing the 2.7-mile course in about 45 minutes. <\/span><\/p>\n

But as long as he\u2019s going, he\u2019s going. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great, as long as I can do it,\u201d he said. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bud Horne \u201949, who as a Bates cross-country runner won a Maine state championship, keeps on going. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1005,"featured_media":109136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,24,130,133],"tags":[2646],"class_list":["post-109090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-collaboration","category-creativity","tag-cross-country"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109090"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117390,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109090\/revisions\/117390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}