Archive For The “Running Free” Category
Forty-five years ago, the editor of “The Thinking Runner’s Magazine” was likely looking for any hints at getting faster and maybe some free content. The deep dive into the last box of archives offered up a two-page handwritten letter. Two lined sides of a single sheet from a three-ring binder. In ink with corrections. Remember…
integrity humility generosity I first met Kenny Moore at the 1969 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Miami, Florida, during the 10,000 meter championship race. He blew by me on the final straightaway and finished third. We shook hands, changed out of our spikes and started jogging together to cool down. When we had finished…
“Quite frankly, I didn’t know what the hell I wanted to be,” Moore said of his college life. “I was pretty sure I didn’t want to starve. That had no particular appeal to me at all. I had no ambition to be a bohemian.” He seemed like a great artist to me. Getting to Nike…
You’ve got to know how to compete and win, life goes too god-damned fast…. No one ever said life was fair. – Joan Crawford You say a six-year-old ran a marathon. Really? Casual observation of contemporary America suggests there are grownups who have yet to total 26.2 miles of running in their entire lifetimes. I…
Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair. – Nelson Mandala Became a runner over a…
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely — at least, not all the time — but essentially,…
When I first started running, I was so embarrassed I’d walk when cars passed me. I’d pretend I was looking at the flowers! – Joan Benoit Samuelson, First Woman Olympic Marathon Champion I’ll be honest, I thought I was listening to an audiobook narrated by a bunch of people I know. Don’t listen to podcasts,…
And while the hearse was delivering legendary Browning Ross to his final resting place, members of the Gloucester Catholic High School track team he coached so proudly jogged alongside in a tear-provoking, gut-wrenching tribute. – Gloucester City News Browning Ross, 74, Founder of Road Runners By Frank Litsky for The New York Times. April 30, 1998….
“I couldn’t neglect my 10-mile run just because I was getting married. If you can get away with it the morning you’re married, you can get away with it anytime, ’cause then they know you mean business.” I don’t remember running with Bill Emmerton, but I imagine it was something of a big deal for…
In all, 242 athletes trained in Flagstaff for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympic Games. If these athletes had competed as “Flagstaffians,” the city would’ve placed 10th in the world – just below Italy – in the overall medal count. – Pine: The Alumni Magazine of Northern Arizona University (Fall 2021) Flagstaff, Arizona. August 6, 1973….