MONROE, CT — Brendan McKeon, 41, of Monroe was never athletic while growing up in Hamden, despite his late father’s best efforts to get him into sports. His brother, Kevin, was the athlete in the family. But McKeon’s recent weight loss journey led to a love of running, culminating in his completing the Dopey Challenge at Disney World last month. McKeon, who broke his leg from a bad fall in 2016 and has a metal rod in his right leg, making it shorter than the left, ran a total of 48.6 miles that weekend. “I was never a runner as … Continue reading A wake-up call sends a Monroe man running, and he’s still going