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High school athletes run 18 miles to fulfill pie promise
RunnersZane Hull (left) and Kaden Overstreet, seniors on the Lamar (Mo.) High School cross country team, recently surprised football coach Scott Bailey by running 18 miles to Cooky's Cafe in Golden City to buy him a pie -- something he'd been egging them on to do for four years. Posted: Monday, December 15, 2014 4:00 pm | Updated: 4:16 pm, Mon Dec 15, 2014.
LAMAR, Mo. — It was the same good-natured ribbing nearly every day for four years: “If you’re going to run all that distance,” football coach Scott Bailey would tell cross country runners at Lamar High School as they got ready to train, “then make yourselves useful and run over to Cooky’s Cafe and get me a piece of pie.” The decades-old diner, renowned for its homemade pies, sits 18 miles east of Lamar in Golden City, and a stretch even for cross-country runners. A standard distance in cross-country meets is five kilometers, or 3.1 miles. During the cross country season, runners might log as many as 10 miles at a time but usually not more. Read the full article at: www.effinghamdailynews.com
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