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May 9, 2024May 16, 2024

Ottawa

I’m heading downstate to Grand Haven, MI to complete my run in Ottawa County.

What caught my eye was this coal tower. There’s also one in Clare County, where I’ve run before. I’m told there are only six of these in the state. It’s very cool to see, as I’ve probably run past the Clare County one 30-50 times. I frequent that loop often since it’s close to my rental.

At the start of my run, I headed up to the other side of the train tracks, towards the Grand River, which flows into Lake Michigan.

Running southwest along the path, I saw a lot of boats on the river.

Was pretty wide at this point.

Here’s an entertainment area with steps for people to sit and enjoy the show.

Very wide part of the river. I think lake Michigan is close.

I loved seeing the flowering tree. Around this time last year, I was running in Monroe County.

I was able to get onto the sidewalks heading east.

The growth on the tree was remarkable. It looked like the tree was being strangled.

The residence behind the steps looked like a lovely place.

I loved all the colored leaves and flowers.

The rock wall with the garden was impressive as well.

Police car looked cool and close. I think i was heading North at this point.

I passed a runner on the sidewalk, but didn’t see many other people, just a few cars driving by.

Was so cool seeing the other side of the coal tower.

And the caboose!

I had dinner with Matt Kenny, a salesperson I used to work with at my previous job. I’ve always admired his talent and have immense respect for his abilities. Since I’ll likely be venturing into sales for myself soon, I wanted to glean insights from him. We discussed marketing strategies, cold emailing techniques, campaign tactics, video distribution, and various sales topics. I feel incredibly fortunate to have him as a friend.

On May 9th, my agenda is set to rendezvous with Matt K., a former colleague and friend who currently works as a salesperson for my previous company. Anticipation brims within me as I eagerly look forward to our reunion, eager to catch up on his endeavors and share my own accomplishments. I’m particularly keen on tapping into his expertise in sales, an area where I admit I could use some guidance. While my strengths lie in design, website development, and marketing, sales is a realm I’m eager to delve deeper into. After a delightful dinner catching up with Matt, my journey will commence towards running a 5k set amidst the scenic beauty of Ottawa County.

Ottawa County

Holland
Allendale
Blendon
Chester
Coopersville
Crockery
Ferrysburg
Georgetown
Grand Haven
Holland
Hudsonville
Jamestown
Olive
Park
Polkton
Port Sheldon
Robinson
Spring Lake
Tallmadge
Wright
Zeeland

Any place in Bold and Red are townships / towns / cities I’ve run a 5k for the county run (or the closest city to my county run)

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November 23, 2023September 25, 2024

Ingham County – Special Offer

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Ingham County Run

On Thanksgiving Day 2023, I joined my nephew, Cody, for the Turkey Trot in Lansing, Michigan. Our parents were on their way to Tennessee for Thanksgiving celebrations with another branch of our family, but due to prior commitments and work, we couldn’t join them. Nevertheless, we took a break to participate in this run early in the morning.

Preparing for the race kickoff, I noticed my bib number was in the four thousands, suggesting a large turnout – probably thousands of participants! This picture doesn’t capture the crowd as it was taken a bit early in the event.

Cody and I ran side by side along the entire stretch of this street.

We caught a glimpse of the Capitol building at the end of one street!

A little farther into the run.

Turned the corner and ran in the opposite direction closer to the capitol buillding.

Take a look at all these small businesses lining the right side of the street! Surely, someone here could benefit from a website update, SEO, or graphic design services. This town is bustling with opportunities!

Michigan State Capitol Building! WOW!

Above, gazing further down the street, this was perhaps the halfway point. Below, take one last glance at the Capitol.

We ran down and then made a turn to go up between those two streets.

I believe this photo was taken around the 2.5-mile mark of the run. At this point, I was pushing myself harder, sprinting at full speed down the entire last straightaway. Below is, I think, the final turn leading into the straightaway, though I might be mistaken.

Here’s a final glimpse of the Capitol! There’s a business here that could benefit from graphic design.

I finished then Cody finished shortly after me.

While Cody and I were participating in a turkey trot in Lansing, my daughter was simultaneously running a Turkey Trot 5k in Torrance, California. She resides in LA with her family, and I couldn’t be prouder of her! It was a unique experience to have the three of us engaged in the same activity while being separated by thousands of miles. I’m extending the same offer below to the first small business from Torrance, Englewood, Los Angeles, or the surrounding areas that contacts me. In the past, I’ve collaborated with a few businesses in California (aviation, metalwork, or pet related) for online advertising and print advertisements, though I don’t recall the specific counties.

I have previously ran in this county, with my children and father. Creig, who once worked for the DNR in Lansing, led us to participate in a turkey trot run, I think. Over the years, my family and I actively engaged in numerous 5k runs, with the Rat Race in Mt. Pleasant being a recurring event that held special significance for us.

Upon embarking on my current challenge, I had anticipated revisiting the Turkey Trot, and it wasn’t until Cody suggested joining me in early November that I solidified my decision. I am genuinely grateful for his encouragement. So this run was my completion of Inham County in the town of Lansing.

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Ingham County

Alaiedon
Aurelius
Bunker Hill
Dansville
Delhi
East Lansing
Ingham
Lansing
Lansing State capital
Leroy
Leslie
Locke
Mason
Meridian
Onondaga
Stockbridge
Vevay
Webberville
Wheatfield
White Oak
Williamston
Williamstown

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Any place in Bold and Blue are townships / towns / cities I’ve run anytime in the past.

June 26, 2023October 1, 2024

Wayne County – Special offer!

Wayne County Run

I was taking a picture in the other direction. I was much more uncomfortable than I looked. I started thinking about how I could get business down in this community. I’ve decided that I could do social media advertising to pick up clients down here. You will notice that I have yet to experience clients from this location at the bottom of this page. So I will run some Facebook, Instagram, TickTok, and LinkedIn ads to pick up more social media clients. The advertising will be geo-targeted, focusing on towns like Livonia, Gross Point, Dearborn, Detroit, etc. While I started this site to get some website design and SEO work, I’ve designed around ten sites since starting. The results of this site have yet to bring me any work. I’ll start focusing on the SEO of my sites and redesign mccatty.net. I’ve also purchased mccatty.site, mccatty.website, and mccatty.org to do email marketing to attempt to get a marketing business moving. I’ve started email marketing and will contact some companies down here to get some work. I’ve had a lot of success with other clients and continue to do work for others, but if I could pick up 10 to 20 more clients, that would open up options for me and allow me to be more focused on clients’ work and try to get my own thing going.

The start of my run. The photo is of the Wayne exit just north of the airport. My sister and I went down to Florida after my dads passing. Since I have dropped the ball this year with county runs, I asked her if I did a county-run was okay. The question was a HUGE ask as we had two very, very stressful flights. The first one, we were on the plane from Detroit to Florida for over 7 hours. We stayed the night at the airport for the second one because we had to be there at 3 am and fly out at 5. The second flight was good, but we were just SO tired at the point of this run, and we had a 3-4 hour drive home from there. I told her to go to Bob Evans up the Road, and I would run there and meet her for breakfast. I had to run past Bob Evans to get a full 5k in, but it was so nice to get a county done finally.
I suggested to Mary (a high school friend) that Lisa and I would meet up with them when I ran this county. So sad that I didn’t do that, but I will make it a point to meet up with Mary and Rob someday soon.

I ran out of sidewalk and had to run on the road for a big section of this run.

Here I was running on the road but it had a nice big shoulder and there wasn’t a ton of traffic. It was super hot though.

A little farther down the road. Almost no cars.

I’m not sure what that run ball was, but I thought it was interesting.

Further down the road, there was a big building that had a dome.

I finally made it to Bob Evans, but I was only at 2.2 miles, so I had to keep going and turn around in .425 miles

This was past Bob Evans.

A pick of my shadow. This was an accidental shot but I though it was cool.

I saw this man-hole-cover by EJIW. A long time ago, I used to design for EJIW. I have drawn probably thousands of these covers for their brochures, White papers, presentations, and any media or advertising they did. I worked with them probably 15 years ago, but I’m still proud of all I did for them. I was doing about 13 3d illustrations of manhole covers a day. They found it was cheaper to hire me to draw them using 3d modeling software than to hire a photographer, forklift operator, and several people to lift and move these around for the photos. After the photos were taken, they would need to hire someone to airbrush them to look clean. So much less expensive to hire me to develop these products for advertising.

Turn around point and run back to Bob Evans.

In Florida, at my Dad and Sharon’s home with my brother Geoff and his wife Kim. On the right is my sister Vicki. It was a super stressful weekend, but made so much better, having company who cared. Thank you.

Sharon, my step mom, I was able to visit with her while I was down there in Florida. Love you.

Picture of Lisa my wife, me, Greg, Dad, Myron, and in the front, Geoff, Sharon, Lisa, and Vicki

As I stated above, I planned to meet up with Mary and Rob, but it came up that I needed to use the Detroit airport, and I decided to complete this county so I could check one off this summer.

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Wayne County

Flat Rock
Allen Park
Belleville
Brownstown
Canton
Dearborn
Dearborn Heights
Detroit
Ecorse
Garden City
Gibraltar
Grosse Ile
Grosse Pointe
Grosse Pointe Farms
Grosse Pointe Park
Grosse Pointe Woods
Hamtrack
Harper Woods
Highland Park
Huron
Inkster
Lincoln Park
Livonia
Melvindale
Northville
Plymouth
Redford
River Rouge
Riverview
Rockwood
Romulus
Southgate
Sumpter
Taylor
Trenton
Van Buren
Village of Grosse Pointe Shores
Westland
Woodhaven
Wyandotte

Any place in Bold and Red are townships / towns / cities I’ve run a 5k for the county run (or the closest city to my county run)

Any place in Bold and Blue are townships / towns / cities I’ve run anytime in the past.

August 21, 2022January 7, 2024

Oakland County Special Offer!

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As you reach the end of this page, it becomes clear that I haven’t taken on any projects related to website design, hosting, SVG Art or advertising (including Facebook advertising, Google Ads, and social media promotion) for clients in this county. For an exclusive offer tailored to the first business to engage my services, please refer to the bottom of this page. I am enthusiastic about extending the same level of marketing success that I’ve achieved for numerous small businesses across Michigan to a deserving enterprise in Troy, Clarkston, or any city in Oakland County. Your business could be the next to benefit from my proven expertise. Thank you for considering a potential partnership, and I look forward to delivering impactful marketing results for your business. I’ve previously done design services with esteemed companies like Tyson, Unilever, and Stellantis. My presentations have been presented at renowned corporations such as Tesla, GM, Volvo, Ford, and may others, some multiple times. Rest assured, my expertise in the field is backed by a track record of successful collaborations.

Oakland County, MI Run

Welcome to my journey through Oakland County, a place that holds a special place in my heart, as my birthplace. In the sections below, you’ll find details of my county run and the cities I’ve yet to highlight in BOLD and GREEN.

I was starting the run and thinking about the whole situation. I had just left cousin Linda’s beautiful home that her dad built. Her family has taken this home and done a bunch of upgrades, and it is so cool seeing a home stay in the family. This side of the family had 13 kids, eight boys, and five girls. So you can only imagine how many cousins I have.

Almost to the end of Linda’s road, ahead is John R road.

I took this photo facing north.

This photo I believe is facing South.

Way up ahead is Wattles Rd. I’m amazed at these photos because the traffic seemed at the time to be bumper to bumper for the whole run. However, there are several photos where the street appears empty.

My support team passed me in my sister’s fancy Cadillac. What a fantastic car, and what a tremendous support crew!

I was looking down Rochester Rd. When I was born, I lived on this road until I was about three years old. My grandparent’s home was even farther down the road along with my Aunt Vicki’s home. She is still there, but my grandparent’s house was gone, and they were building what looked like apartments or something, and my original home had also been torn down and replaced with one closer to the road.

I was looking back east on Wattles Rd. My sister was parked at the two-mile mark, and I passed her and told her I would meet her in another mile. She told me that she passed me 3 or 4 times. What a support crew! Thank you, Vicki and Lisa, and I’m sorry I had to ask that you do this.

I am continuing down the road to the west. Honestly, the road was MUCH busier than the pictures all indicate. This is coming from a TC guy who doesn’t see cars until the cherry festival.

Here is probably around the 2.5-mile area. There was a solid wall of trees on the right side.

What a beautiful area, again NO cars. The people looking at my well designed website will not believe how busy it the roads were!

There was a little creek that ran across the road toward the end of my run. My sisters parked at the 3 mile mark so I had to run .5 past them and then return to the car.

Me, my sister Vicki and my sister Lisa. Strange that we hardly ever get all three of us alone but together. So great to have a picture of us all old. Below is a picture in front of Lisa’s house. It looks like we need to redo the roof soon! Thanks, Vicki and Lisa, for all the support. I love you.

I love you too, Aunt Kim!

This weekend was supposed to be the Ottawa run. I planned to run that county with my boss and meet with a previous co-worker, but unfortunately, I got some terrible news. My aunt Kim (the youngest aunt on my dad’s side) had passed. This passing was so shocking. So my sisters and I (pictured above – Lisa and Vicki) headed to Troy, MI, for the funeral. I wanted to run two counties while I was down there, but the whole trip, the heat, and the thoughts of my aunt while on the run made me change my mind and finish this one county. The day was a hard one – both mentally and physically. One very positive thing was being able to see my aunts, uncles, and cousins, whom I rarely get to see. THAT was heartwarming. I hope this is the last MI run that will remind me of a funeral. However, I might change my mind because when I look back at all the runs, I’m amazed how pictures and notes bring back so many memories. So we’ll see.

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Oakland County

Addison
Auburn Hills
Berkley
Beverly Hills
Bingham Farms
Birmingham
Bloomfield
Bloomfield Hills
Brandon
Clawson
Commerce
Farmington
Farmington Hills
Fenton
Ferndale
Franklin
Groveland
Hazel Park
Highland
Holly
Huntington Woods
Independence
Keego Harbor
Lake Angelus
Lake Orion
Lathrup Village
Leonard
Lyon
Madison Heights
Milford
Novi
Oakland
Oak Park
Orchard Lake Village
Orion
Ortonville
Oxford
Pleasant Ridge
Pontiac
Rochester
Rochester Hills
Rose
Royal Oak
Southfield
South Lyon
Springfield
Sylvan Lake
Troy
Village of Clarkston
Walled Lake
Waterford
West Bloomfield
White Lake
Wixom
Wolverine Lake

Any place in Bold and Red are townships / towns / cities I’ve run a 5k for the county run (or the closest city to my county run)

Any place in Bold and Blue are townships / towns / cities I’ve run anytime in the past.

June 9, 2022September 3, 2023

Clinton

Clinton, County a run in Eureka, MI.

Here is a photo I took near where I was planning to run. I was happy to see turkeys out in the fields.

I parked my car on the Northeast side of the route.

The blue sky is heading west on the northern road of the route—what a beautiful day.

I was looking toward the north across the road.

Towards the south, I saw some cows.

Another big field!

Not sure why I took this photo, but I love the vegetation behind that chunky guy!

The sky was just amazing that day and there looked to be another giant field behind those trees.

I am finally heading south after a mile run. This dirt road on the west side was the same as the road on the east side of this run—a half-mile in length.

A little down this road, I ran across these big birds at the top of the tree.

A big field in the background, I’m not 100% sure where it was located, but it was a fantastic site with a boat load of deer in the field.

About six red-wing blackbirds attacked me. These didn’t hit me because I’ve learned my lesson before. Simply pay attention to them.

Here are more turkeys out in the field.

The two photos above might be out of order as they look like first-light photos.

An animal ran across the road here; I think I’m heading east on the southernmost part of my run.

After completing this run, I completed three

5k runs (9.3 miles) in about 16 hours. St. Clair County, Lapeer County, and This one (Clinton County)

Today’s run is planned for Thursday’s drive back to work. I ran two counties yesterday, Wednesday the 8th – St. Clair and Lapeer counties. It was mostly just a west drive from Davidson, and it was the perfect morning. There was a bit of light rain, but not horrible.

Clinton County

Bath

Bengal

Bingham

Dallas

DeWitt

Deplane

Eagle

East Lansing

Eureka

Elsie

Essex

Fowler

Greenbush

Hubbardston

Lansing Capital

Lebanon

Maple Rapids

Olive

Ovid

Riley

St. Johns

Victor

Watertown

Westphalia

Any place in Bold and Red are townships / towns /cities I’ve run a 5k for the county run (or the closest city to my county run)

Any place in Bold and Blue are townships / towns / cities I’ve run anytime in the past.

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Ottawa

Ottawa County

Ingham County – Special Offer

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Wayne County – Special offer!

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Wayne County

Oakland County Special Offer!

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Oakland County

Clinton

Clinton County

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