
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, June 18, 1994                   TAG: 9406290100
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-5   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: RICK LINDQUIST
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

DARRELL MANN'S RUN 1,000 MILES, BUT THE HEAT'S GETTING TO HIM

Hot, humid weather has been dogging Darrell Mann of Peterstown, W.Va., as he passed the 1,000-mile point - and wore out his sixth pair of Nikes - on his "Run Across America." The 51-year-old grandfather and laid-off Radford Army Ammunition Plant worker began his ambitious journey from Cape Henlopen, Del., May 2. He hopes to make it to the West Coast this fall.

"I'd thought I'd died two days ago," he said of the hot weather. "I thought I was out of energy," he said Friday during a mid-day running break along Southern Indiana's Highway 150.

His wife, Sue, and two of his six children, are following in a van. "They're kinda co-pilots," he said of his youngsters, Seth, 13, and Megan, 10.

Mann is running to emphasize the plight of the uninsured and unemployed like himself, but he's also stressing good health and individual self-worth and ability when he meets with church and school groups along the way.

A devout Mormon and regional church official, Mann plans to reach Nauvoo, Ill., by June 27, where he'll join other church officials to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the death of church prophet Joseph Smith.

by CNB