Jon Sutherland started his runstreak on May 26, 1969. Five decades later, he’s still going. ❤️
Nearly 50 runners stand together at Victory Trailhead in Los Angeles waiting to take off on their morning run. A few of them compare how far they’ve come, from Arizona to New York. Others compare how long they’ve been running. Through it all, you can hear one name repeated again and again: Coach Jon.
His full name is Jon Sutherland, the 68-year-old star of the show who was about to embark on the three-mile run that would make him the first American to reachRelated StoryThat was during his college days, when he first found running. As a lifelong baseball player, he didn’t know about running until he met some guys on campus who showed him the ropes. When he decided he liked it better than the diamond, he looked for an out from his sport.
Sutherland found one, in the form of throwing a no-hitter. He decided that would be the end to his baseball career. He wasn’t planning to be done that day, but he wanted to go out on a high note.Sutherland lives down the hill, about a mile and 400 vertical feet, from this trailhead. He jumped past the thought that the steep hills aren’t his thing anymore.Nate Abbott
His dad, who was at the game, signed the last baseball from the game, and left a note: “To Jon, now free to run.” And that’s exactly what he did. Sutherland has since racked up roughly 197,000 miles—an average of about 10 miles a day—since he started the streak at 18 years old.Through all of those miles, he created his family. Though he never married or had children, he found familial bonds on the run.
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