One of the biggest surprises – and announcements – from Mayor Tom Henry’s State of the City address had little to do with city government at all.He’s run roughly 3,000 miles so far, and today Mike Ehredt is scheduled to be in the region.
Ehredt, a retired postal clerk and Army veteran, is in the midst of running more than 4,500 miles across the country in what is dubbed Project America Run, a tribute to soldiers who have died in the war in Iraq.
After each mile he completes, Ehredt, pushing a cart full of flags, places a flag bearing the name of a fallen soldier in the ground.
He began his run May 1 in Astoria, Ore., and will end his run on the Atlantic coast in Rockland, Maine.
Today, he’ll enter Huntington County, and Friday he will run through Fort Wayne.
“He hasn’t even had a blister yet,” said Wally Thrall, a friend of Ehredt’s and the project manager for Project America Run.
Ehredt’s run today is scheduled to take him through Huntington to Roanoke.
On Friday, he’ll begin his run to Fort Wayne about 6 a.m. Between 8 and 9 a.m., he is expected to reach the Rivergreenway and take it through New Haven, according to Thrall.
Ehredt’s run Friday will end at Dawkins Road and the junction of Indiana 101.
“It’d be nice if people turned out and encouraged Mike,” Thrall said.
