Special recognition for Bill Folk -The Folk Trekers

Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 4:36 pm

We had the opportunity to watch as Bill chalked up a "Done it" at the Milwaukee Lakefront Marathon. An awesome achievement in my eyes since I couldn't run around the block without making a 911 call. Kudos, Bill we are all proud of your achievement.

Joined: 2003-09-10 Posts: 1263 Location: Bristol WI

I always thought running was for sick people-
First Enigma and now this!

Congratulations Mr. Folktraker!

Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 5:00 pm

Congratulations on running and completing the marathon. You're quite a clever cachemeister/geocacher as well.

Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 6:08 pm

Wow! A wonderful acheivement!

Bec

Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 9:29 pm

Nice job! I'm a "retired" marathon runner. Have completed 2 in my younger years and have no desire to do them again. Way to go the distance! Tami

Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 6:58 am

Way to go, Bill! This is truly a noteworthy accomplishment. How many caches did you find along the way?

By the way, I believe a geocacher won the men's division of the marathon. We met Shane Carr while geocaching last year at T&B's "Diamond in the Rough" cache. He was there with wzbt03, who (I think) is Shane's father-in-law. Do I have my facts correct, Jeff?

Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:59 am

A big thank you to T & tb who took time out of their Sunday to come down to the lakefront to cheer me on. I can't begin to thank them enough...it means a lot to me that you guys did that.

I had great support from Mrs. Traker in this goal. It took a year's worth of training and many hours of lost cache time to achieve this goal but in the end it was worth it.

I completed it in 4 hours 45 min and 55 sec...and did not try to find a cache along the way...but kept thinking about it as I went past some very familiar parks!!

Thanks again everyone!!

Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 5:41 pm

That's a tough one to chalk up a find!

Way to go!!!