By ESTEVAN MEDRANO
Port Isabel-South Padre Press
press@portisabelsouthpadre.com
January 22, 2015
Wisconsin native and Winter Texan Leonard Reimer.
Of the over 3,300 participants in this year’s Longest Causeway Run/Walk, less than a thousand were able to weather the frigid conditions and complete the race- most of them under 40 years old. Among those who completed the course was Bearaboo, Wisconsin native and Winter Texan Leonard Reimer. The wind was so intense during the Causeway Run, that at the peak of the Queen Isabella Memorial Causeway, an especially strong gust tore the rain poncho he’d been wearing to shreds. He finished the race 808th overall, but what’s remarkable isn’t so much the place that he finished, but that he did so at the age of 76.
Reimer travels around the country with his wife in a motor home and his 2002 Harley Davidson motorcycle, always heading “where the Lord leads.” This is his second year coming down to the Laguna Madre area following a long stint of jobs including working at General Motors, a tenure as a stock car racer and being an ice cream man.
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