400 runners selected for Mackinac Bridge crossing

Posted: 09.01.2010 at 5:52 PM

LANSING, MI (AP) --       LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Four hundred runners recently received
some good news: They've been randomly selected to run across the
Mackinac Bridge on Monday.
      The annual Labor Day crossing draws tens of thousands of
walkers.
      But a select 400 who entered an online lottery have been tapped
to jog across the span that connects Michigan's Upper and Lower
peninsulas.
      Michigan's governor has led the walk since 1958, a precedent set
by G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams shortly after the bridge opened.
      Gov. Jennifer Granholm turned the holiday tradition on its head
early in her tenure, adding the running element.