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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 2001
Dog days of summer
Area residents come together for fitness, comraderie and motivation.
Photos by Thad Allender
Above: Dog Days founder Don Gardner shouts encouragement through a megaphone. As a child, Gardner was given the nickname "Red Dog," and uses the name during the training course.
Left: Dog Days averages between 350 and 500 participants every day, said coach Jim O'Connell. Participants did sit-ups between running events last night at Memorial Stadium.
Above: Joshua Dixon, Topeka, cools off beneath a water hose after Dog Days at Memorial Stadium. Despite the exhausting 100-degree mid-afternoon temperature, fitness fanatics meet at noon weekdays to run sprints, distance and stairs.
Left: Dog Days runners are a blur as they run a half-mile in triple-digit temperatures last night at Memorial Stadium.
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