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FOR THE HEALTH OF IT

educator at Salinas High. Her mother and father also
JANE track and field meets all these years. Go Cowboys!
taught at Salinas High. She, of course, has been helping at

She is acutely aware that in her retirement years,
she’ll have more time to think about Robert and will need
ANDERSON to keep busy. Her plans are to spend more time with her
daughters and two grandchildren, substitute teach where
and when she wants, drink some Pinot Grigio with Ken and
her friends, and for sure run more miles with her people.
“My running friends and my running have helped me
cope with grief. Everyone has to find their people. I’m glad
I have mine.”
Find your people
Mike Dove is our resident running expert.
Having run for years, Mike is an
BY MIKE DOVE, CORRAL DE TIERRA
integral component in many runner’s
groups and has participated on
several running event committees.
He has completed numerous
marathons, including our own Big Sur
International Marathon. Mike lives in
Corral de Tierra with his wife.

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a lifelong love of running and being active. And
she’s fast. She ran middle distances at Salinas High
and Hartnell, excelling in the 400 and 800 meters.
Although not on the team, she continued to run at Cal
Poly, where she earned a degree in Nutrition Sciences.
When she was working full time, Jane also took night
“No one expects bad Her husband, Ken, her two daughters, changes with the loss of a child. Grief classes toward a master’s degree in public health at
and her family provide much-needed
is like a marathon. Besides family,
things to happen, but support, along with her running my running and my running friends San Jose State. She started her career by working five
years with Monterey County as a nutritionist, until she
they do.” friends. Running provides her with give me strength. You have to find found her true calling, teaching.
stress relief and strength. your people.” Robert’s memorial She still races and is fast enough to have qualified
-JANE ANDERSON, 2024 In March of 2018, Robert was service had so many friends and for and run the Boston Marathon seven times. You
driving back to Salinas, after a admirers that it was held at the can find her running on Portola Drive almost every
hen I took notes for this trip with friends to baseball spring Monterey Fairgrounds, in one of the morning, and always with her compassionate group
Warticle, my friend Jane training in Arizona. The unthinkable large exhibit halls. There was still an of running friends. Most mornings she wears her
Anderson and I shared a few glasses happened. He was in an accident. overflow crowd. “Run for Rob” shirt or cap. All three of her children
of her favorite Pinot Grigio at Jane, Ken, and Robert’s sisters, Jane, who has lived in Serra also ran at Salinas High, and her son Robert, also an
Angelina’s. Jane is a mixture of joy received the surprise phone call that Village for over twenty-five years, excellent 800-meter runner, ran at Hartnell, Cal State
and grief, but her basic humanity, every parent and family member has been running for over fifty of her at Northridge, and Cal State at Monterey Bay. He was
love, and optimism shine through as dreads. It cost Robert his life, but he sixty-one years. She started at age ten a bright light and friend to all, helping others become
she talks about her son Robert and was an organ donor and his young, with Salinas Valley Track Club and better people and better runners.
the support that has helped her cope healthy organs enabled six others legendary local coach, Dick Caspar. Jane just retired in June, after a twenty-six year
with his accidental passing at age 26. to live better lives. Jane says, “Life Like so many others, she acquired teaching career, the last twenty-one years as a health

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