USA Today: Walker treads around Great Lakes
First, she walked 1,019 miles around Lake Michigan. Then, she walked another 1,004 miles along the shorelines of all five Great Lakes, reports USA Today. What does Battle Creek’s Loreen Niewenhuis have inside her that compels her to put one foot in front of the other?
Excerpt: “I’d rather do 20 miles on soft sand than 10 miles on the side of the road,” she says. “There is something about being where water meets land. I feel very clicked-in there. I feel like I can go forever.”
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