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Ryan Fowkes, an elite runner from East Hampton who had been chasing the 4-minute mile for years, finally broke through on Aug. 28 with a time of 3:55:49 at the Monmouth Mile in New Jersey.

“The false albacore showed up big time,” Capt. Savio Mizzi of Fishooker Charters out of Montauk reported this week. “It’s a great start to the season.”

Meet a die-hard practitioner of an extreme form of fishing — wetsuiting.

Catching up with Sergey Avramenko, the 40-year-old native of Belarus who has dominated 5K road racing hereabouts, as he prepares to start a new life in Florida as a soccer and running coach.

The Great Bonac road races drew 122 participants to the Springs Firehouse on Labor Day morning. Erik Engstrom, 27, a county cross-country champion when he was at East Hampton High, won the 10K, and Neil Falkenhan, 41, won the 5K.

In the 38 horse-and-rider field Sunday at the Hampton Classic Horse Show, 10 entries hit the water jump in Nick Granat’s challenging course. Jessica Mendoza, an English rider on In the Air, went on to win the jump-off.

As fall approaches, fishing, too, is beginning to change. False albacore should be showing up shortly in and around Montauk, and fluke are pushing out of the bays and have begun their migration to their winter home.

Her Royal Highness Princess Margarita de Bourbon de Parme of the Netherlands was at the Hampton Classic Horse Show on Friday to learn all she could about American forward-style riding in an effort to popularize the hunter-jumper technique in Europe.

Cristian Candemir, a 30-year-old Montauker, will compete in the Strongman Corporation’s under-200-pound national amateur championships in Las Vegas on Sept. 12 and 13.

The Hampton Classic Horse Show leaped into action at the Snake Hollow Road showgrounds in Bridgehampton Sunday with leadline classes for 2 through 7-year-olds judged by Joe Fargis, an Olympic gold medalist.

Liga de Gulag, riding high in the 7-on-7 men’s soccer league Tuesday evenings in Herrick Park, experienced its first loss of the season on Aug. 19. Plus a wood bat league update.

We are nearing the peak of hurricane season, which usually arrives in the middle of September, and any that come close to our area in the next few weeks will no doubt affect those who wet a line.

This year’s Ellen’s Run on Sunday in Southampton was up for grabs, and Karl von Sanden, a 23-year-old Uruguayan, took full advantage, leading wire to wire, while Penelope Greene of Noyac, a recent Geneseo grad, was tops among females.

For the fifth year in a row, Northbar Properties (formerly East End Land Planning) won the East Hampton Town women’s slow-pitch softball playoff trophy last Thursday, this time defeating Montauk Dental 15-3 to complete a two-game sweep at the Terry King ball field in Amagansett.

The weeklong Hampton Classic Horse Show, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, is to open Sunday at the Snake Hollow Road showgrounds in Bridgehampton with leadline classes from 8 a.m. for 2 through 7-year-olds in the Grand Prix ring.

“We’re not about to lose to those guys three years in a row,” a delighted Mike Lupica said in the joyous — for the Writers — aftermath of Saturday’s Artists and Writers Softball Game at East Hampton’s Herrick Park.

Liga de Gulag, a team of young players, continued undefeated in 7-on-7 men’s soccer play last week, upping its record to 6-0-0 by virtue of a 4-3 win over Sag Harbor United at East Hampton Village’s Herrick Park on Aug. 12.

These days there are far fewer folks fishing from their boats or from shore in Sag Harbor than there were 30 years ago. This year I’ve probably seen around five boats fishing all season from my vantage point on Shelter Island Sound.

This weekend will be an active one, with the Artists and Writers Softball Game at Herrick Park, the Johnny Mac Tennis Project pro-am at Sportime, and Ellen’s Run in Southampton.

Susie DiSunno, the Kendall Madison Foundation’s most recent scholarship awardee, was welcomed by board members at Alan Patricof’s house in East Hampton Saturday morning for an informal gathering to continue the mentoring mission.

Hoops 4 Hope, which aids at-risk children in Zimbabwe and South Africa, and the LuMind Foundation, which improves the lives of those with Down syndrome, benefited from hotly contested basketball tournaments at Sportime in Amagansett.

Before you know it, it’ll be the middle of October, when the season for blackfish begins. So I canceled my regular morning of tennis to take an early drive to Montauk to fish for fluke and sea bass aboard the Simple Life.

The Hampton Lifeguard Association finished an impressive fifth in the United States Life Saving Association's national tournament in California last week, but the biggest news coming out of the tourney was that four of H.L.A.'s U-19s qualified to compete for the U.S. team in the International Surf Rescue Challenge in New Zealand.

A look back to when Ross Gload was a top major league prospect, and lifeguards in an invitational tournament here did themselves proud, once again.

I'm ashamed to admit that I've done very little fishing this season. But I have a good reason.

“This is one of those rare opportunities when you don’t have to ask taxpayers for money to do the things that improve students’ lives,” the district superintendent said of the newly paid down construction bond.

Seventeen teams, at least two of them including present-day and former East Hampton High School students on their rosters, went at it in A and B brackets over the weekend in Amagansett.

The East Hampton Town and East Hampton Village entries topped the women’s field in last Thursday’s Main Beach invitational lifeguard tournament, while the town’s men’s A team finished third, behind Smith Point and Jones Beach.

Ryder Abran, a key figure in the East Hampton Little League’s county-finalist 10-U all-star team’s most recent season, has overcome a disease that can reduce the ball of the hip’s ball-and-socket joint to putty by interrupting blood flow.

At the Jordan’s Run 5K, which starts just off the hill at the foot of Jordan Haerter’s alma mater, Pierson High School, two more recent grads, Justin Gardiner and Penelope Greene, finished first and second on Sunday.