On The Run With Beards and Dun- podcast the Beards describing his continued incredible rise to the top. His streak of marathon PB's...

On our recent podcast #6, we talked about the summer of 1979 and trying to qualify for the 1980 Olympic trails marathon. You had to run...

After 3 years of frustration of not being healthy for spring track, I was able to make it through the 1979 season without any setbacks. I...

After finishing 2nd as a team (again) at the NCAA National Division II cross-country nationals on November 11, 1978. Dick and I, along...

Photo of the Top 10 finishers at the 1978 NCC meet. Dan Obrien (USD) in 1st, John Smith (USD) in 5th and Curt Bacon (NDSU)10th. Coach...

The 1978 team was a good one. With seniors Mike and Mark Bills, Mike Dunlap, Ken Cizadlo, Junior Dick Beardsley and sophomores Joel and...

The first week of college in the fall was always exciting. I enjoyed getting back together with friends/team-mates and settling into the...

Printed below is the final summer mileage for the 1978 SDSU cross country teams. The new guy, that we didn't know, is the guy with all...

Standing L to R - Coach Scott Underwood, Paul Boersma (senior), Joel Brandt (freshman), Ken Cizadlo (junior). Kneeling L to R - Mike...

Before Beards joined our team in 1978, we had quite a bit of success over the years. SDSU cross-country had a great tradition of...

After my sophomore year of cross country at SDSU, my room-mate Randy Fischer wanted to run his first marathon. I had run the Mel Voss...

Dun mentioned running cross-country in high school in the first episode of the podcast. Here is Dun's training "diary" from the summer...

We're starting a new adventure. Whenever we get together, we have so much fun, joy and fulfilment talking about our experiences as...