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More than 150 runners and walkers, many sporting ear muffs and arm warmers, took to the field this morning in the inaugural Dallas County Hospital and Live Healthy Iowa five-kilometer walk and run. A one-kilometer kids’ run was available for the less strenuously inclined.
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Matt Wille, left, CEO of the Dallas County Hospital in Perry, was among the runners and walkers in the DCH and Live Healthy Iowa 5K run and walk Saturday morning.
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Stretching prior to exercise is especially important in cool weather. Temperatures at the start of the DCH and Live Healthy Iowa 5K run and walk were a springlike 33 degrees.
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Even young people should stretch their limbs prior to exercise, as this young fellow did Saturday morning in the DCH and Live Healthy Iowa 5K run and walk.
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Cool spring temperatures did not chill the enthusiasm of the athletes in the first DCH and Live Healthy Iowa 5K run and walk Saturday morning in Perry.
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Cool spring temperatures did not chill the enthusiasm of the athletes in the first DCH and Live Healthy Iowa 5K run and walk Saturday morning in Perry.
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Andrew Bambrick, noted Perry poet laureate, joined his granddaughter and great-granddaughter for the DCH and Live Healthy Iowa 5K run and walk Saturday morning in Perry.
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Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Bambrick of Perry joined more than 150 other runners and walkers in the DCH and Live Healthy Iowa 5K run and walk.
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Activities for young people were part of the plan at the DCH and Live Healthy Iowa 5K run and walk in Perry Saturday morning.
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Cool spring temperatures did not chill the enthusiasm of the athletes in the first DCH and Live Healthy Iowa 5K run and walk Saturday morning in Perry.
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Pets had their place, too, in the first DCH and Live Healthy Iowa 5K run and walk Saturday morning in Perry.
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Joelle Miner of Perry shared the sunny and cool spring morning with about 150 other athletes in the first DCH and Live Healthy Iowa 5K run and walk Saturday morning in Perry.
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Cool spring temperatures did not chill the enthusiasm of the athletes in the first DCH and Live Healthy Iowa 5K run and walk Saturday morning in Perry.
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Cool spring temperatures did not chill the enthusiasm of the athletes in the first DCH and Live Healthy Iowa 5K run and walk Saturday morning in Perry.
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Chad Hoffbeck of Perry set a leisurely pace in the first DCH and Live Healthy Iowa 5K run Saturday morning in Perry.
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Cool spring temperatures did not chill the enthusiasm of the athletes in the first DCH and Live Healthy Iowa 5K run and walk Saturday morning in Perry.
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Cool spring temperatures did not chill the enthusiasm of the athletes in the first DCH and Live Healthy Iowa 5K run and walk Saturday morning in Perry.
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Cool spring temperatures did not chill the enthusiasm of the athletes in the first DCH and Live Healthy Iowa 5K run and walk Saturday morning in Perry.
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Cool spring temperatures did not chill the enthusiasm of the athletes in the first DCH and Live Healthy Iowa 5K run and walk Saturday morning in Perry.
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Cool spring temperatures did not chill the enthusiasm of the athletes in the first DCH and Live Healthy Iowa 5K run and walk Saturday morning in Perry.
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Cool spring temperatures did not chill the enthusiasm of the athletes in the first DCH and Live Healthy Iowa 5K run and walk Saturday morning in Perry.
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Cool spring temperatures did not chill the enthusiasm of the athletes in the first DCH and Live Healthy Iowa 5K run and walk Saturday morning in Perry.
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About 150 runners and walkers were on their marks for the 8 a.m. start of the first DCH and Live Healthy Iowa 5K run and walk in Perry Saturday morning.