A run to remember

Gordon Barnard, one of the most active senior citizens in this city, marked the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks yesterday with a running club on a five-mile run.

Barnard, 75, is an avid runner, hitting the pavement five days a week, running a few miles here, a marathon there. Ten years ago, Barnard was part of a cross-country run from Boston to Los Angeles, a symbolic journey that finalized the route of the four California-bound planes destroyed in the terrorist attacks. Pictured here is Barnard, left, and his son, Adam Barnard, who is holding the American flag.

Barnard said it was a pretty emotional run. Approximately 4,000 runners participated in the 3,872-mile run, carrying an American flag through New York, Washington, Atlanta, Dallas, Phoenix and finally to Los Angeles. The run culminated two months after the terrorist attacks. Barnard ran the leg from Banning to Beaumont and from Rancho Cucamonga to Claremont.