Jamison, a fit 53 years old, just keeps tying on a new pair of shoes and hitting the trail. He runs six days a week. Jamison hopes his devotion to exercise serves as an example to the children of Zuni Pueblo, an Indian community of about 10,000 people in McKinley County, where diabetes is epidemic. And though he knows he has raised a tidy sum, he has never counted his running money as exactly as he counts rattlesnakes. The money gets spent.
Kids get new sweatshirts.
And teachers get paid. He is preparing a mass mailing to 7,000 to 8,000 of his friends, relatives and regular donors to tell them about the race and ask that they once again pledge money per mile. Another donation plea will be inserted into about 500,000 Roman Catholic newspapers. Tuition and breakfast and lunch are free for the 201 students, thanks to those donations. That's what we do.