USA Clydesdale & Filly Racing Federation God Bless America..May Our Troops Come Home Safe!!

 

Ken Yanowski - note the original Clydesdale Runners Association race tank

Ken has been involved in the Clydesdale scene longer than any cat out there..before there was a
Methuselah, Metamusil or Busch Beer were available!! Yes folks a long time!!

Mr. Yanowski as they call him in Bremond, Texas has been at the forefront of the Clydesdale Movement since
it's begining in the early 80's when Joe Law started it all being an early member of the Clydesdale Runners Association
and now USA Clydesdale & Filly Racing Federation

He has undoubtedly been the best C190-210 ever, ruling the division with iron legs for 20+ years..a record
better than Joe Louis, Larry Holmes, Sugar Ray Robinson or Cassius Clay could have ever imagined!!!

He is the only man to have run two of the greatest Clydie races ever - Hubba Bubba & Big Man Run, winning the
Hubba Bubba back in the 80's and placing high at Big Man Run IX & X..always taking on cats 10-20 years younger than he!!!

Ken is still active with the Terlingua Track Club and even tho age has shaved a second or two off of his best times..he still
trains as if he was 20 years old and he can still win the race!!

 

Full-Time Fall River, Massachusetts Police Officer, Husband, Dad and
Part-Time Clydesdale - Bruce Tavares of Somerset, Massachusetts is
still pretty active but he is often found at a road race honoring the police
and he stays close to home....like Full-Time Husbands & Dad's should!!!

Bruce is the former Race Director of the Officer Thomas Guinta 5Km held each year in Fall River...but he is still very
passionate about it and it is a race that ole Papa Clyde highly recommends!!! Above, Bruce finds himself hanging out with another area
Big Man...Famed Boston Red Sox pitcher Luis Tiant!!

Louieeee, Brucieee, Louieeee, Brucieeeee!!

You have to have high respect for a lad who races every race like it was the last one and still has loads of time to be a
Full-Time Husband & Dad as well be able to enjoy life to the max like he evidently is up above:>)


 

Glenn O'Connor of Milford, Massachusetts via Watertown, Massachusetts and lastly Arlington, Massachusetts
before his mother kicked him out and it was time to move in with his future wife Kim.

Glenn is an original "Founding Father" of the World Famous "Big Man Run"......as seen
above racing in his last Big Man Run in 2003

Another Clydesdale aka Batchelor around town has fallen to the joys of family & husbandhood and with a new home
in the "burbs" - he now races sporadically which is a long ways away from when he was active on the racing scene daily...
Glenn O'Connor is our new "Where Are They Now" Clydesdale's

2005 New Charles River Run 5Km
1998 Bonnell Ford 5 Miler (PC even ran this one)
1998 Powderhouse Pub 4 Miler (PC even ran this one)
1998 Khoury's Summer Steamer
1998 Bridge of Flowers (this race sucked)
1998 Cape Ann 25Km
1996 North Cambridge 5Km Classic





Derek Mess of Cambridge, Massachusetts and one of the original Founding
Fathers of the World Famous "Big Man Run"......is seen above in a very rare racing pic
at last years Ras na hEireann U.S.A. 5Km in Somerville, Massachusetts!!

Derek was unbeatable in his day and I mean unbeatable in his division!!

1996 - Big Man Run I
1997 - Big Man Run II
1997 - Khoury's Summer Steamer
2004 - Ras na hEireann U.S.A.

Injuries, Family Commitments, Injuries have slowed him down a wee bit and he
no longer hits the circuit like he used to but he is fondly remembered over at USACFRF Command
Headquarters and this months "Where Are They Now" spotlight is on the man "Derek Mess"


utop Mt. Triumph

Rich Saxby of Baldwinville, New York

A Clydes's kinda Clyde....a guy you would want watchin' your back...during trouble but
never in a road race cause he surely would overcome you if you gave an inch....heart of gold,
steel determination and the friendliness associated with those who live in a rural setting!!

Rich is our "Where Are They Now" Clydesdale of the summer..call home Rich..

Rich Saxby on Biography Channel tonight:>)

Jodi-lyn Couture of Leominster, Massachusetts


 

Jodi-lyn Couture was in a class of her own when it came to the ladies....she was unbeatable at the long distance races,
most particular the marathon and any local marathon that had the filly divisions..and she not only dominated the marathon and other long
distance races but she also could hold her own in a short distance race like the Dee Zuccaro 5Km in Somerville, Massachusetts!!
Jodi-lyn Couture is pictured above receiving her Filly 140+ Open & OVERALL WOMEN'S winner bouquet at the 1999 Dee Zuccaro 5Km:>)

Jodi-lyn has not been heard from since 2000 and it has been said that she has hung up her racing sneaks
and is hiding out in Central Massachusetts and retired from competitive running.

 

Vinnie Kotwoski - 1998 Big Man Run III Winner



Vinnie as he was known to the lads and Vince to the lasses was the "Jim Rice"
of his time as he ruled the New England Clydesdale scene for but a brief shining moment !!
Vinnie was the 1st true Multi-Sport Superstar in New England to hang his hat with USACFRRF