Don Packwood @ 75

Since I didn't get to come to the 60th Reunion, I thought I would include a picture to show how I look currently.  This picture is of me holding the winner's trophy at my running club's handicap race in 2015.  The way a handicap race works is the the slower runners start before the faster runners according to how each has been running the previous several months.  In theory, each runner has an equal chance to win the race.  In each of the previous two years, I came in second, but in 2015, I finally won.  I am running faster this year.  So far, I have set four, 75+ personal records in my club's weekly races.

UPDATE:  Sept. 2, 2019 – I won again!!

I am pleased to be able to announce that I am only the fourth member of my running club to have won the Handicap Relay twice since its beginning in 1971.  The handicapping committee tries very hard to give previous winners a very stiff handicap to assure no repeat winners.  To have done it at age 79 is pretty good.