LAWRENCE COUNTY, S.D. (KELO) — 12 local runners are well on their way as they cross the entire state of South Dakota on foot. For the second straight year, KELOLAND’s Dan Santella is running in this effort, The 437 Project, while covering it journalistically. Santella had the team's first leg Thursday morning: a roughly 11-mile segment beginning at the Wyoming border. The runners each take turns running until the caravan reaches the Iowa border.

That timing brought favorable weather for a runner: cool, little wind and without the sun's intense rays. Tony Goettsch also had pleasant weather conditions: the kind that match his personality.

Santella: Physically, how'd that first leg feel?

"It felt great for about seven, eight miles, probably, and then my legs started feeling pretty heavy, e

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