Archive For The “Running Free” Category
Fight or flight? If I had wings, there’d be no choice. But since I don’t have wings, I have to rely on my cape, and a long running start. – Jarod Kintz Running is freedom. And nobody’s free, if you are scared. Run bravely. My advice? Day do run run, day do run run. And…
You don’t want anybody walking into your house and taking a Gatorade out of your refrigerator, you’ve got to get in there and protect it. – Tyson Chandler by Paul C. Maurer Gatorade. Lemon-lime. That was my flavor. The color was pea-green. The container was a thirty-two ounce glass jar with a twist-off lid. Forty-five…
I was a grizzled 26-year-old married veteran when I ran my first marathon. I was a month older when I ran my second, the 1973 Boston. A tough day and I distinctly remember I felt more manly for having finished. And survived. Even if I did throw up the beef stew. More ‘manly.’ What an…
Age is not the flight of years; it is the dawn of wisdom in the mind of man. – Joseph Murphy I remember he was not fashion conscious. Remember we were at a race, could’ve been the Avenue of The Giants marathon. The tiptoe through tall timber. I was complaining as usual about that last…
“If you don’t think you are good enough to win, why bother showing up?” Back in the day, living in the Pacific Northwest, racing in the same events, watching from the stands, you get a certain sense of an athlete. Later, if you are lucky, you get to meet some. One or six will leave…
“Running is his only way of surviving.” 1979. I owned a running store, half a running magazine, and was Road Racing editor for Track & Field News. Claimed to be The World’s Slowest Professional Runner. Let’s just say, I was involved. Anyway, found my contemporaneous notes about a movie titled “Running.” Apparently, I saw the…
Ask and wait expectantly for the answer. – Lailah Gifty Akita Shy guy asking for a date at the end of the work week. Imagine a middle-aged Nike executive. Excuse me, Miss, but I am taking a pre-weekend survey. I’d like to ask you a single multiple-choice question, okay? Fine. Now here’s the question – will…
‘I am here, forever, to protect you. To help you, to love you. To keep you happy.’ It was an oath that every elf knew, but never had to say. There was no prompt. At a certain age, two elves of nearly the same name would meet. Then one would say the oath, simply because…
Fortune sides with him who dares.― Virgil Originally titled “Rodgers Moves North” from Track & Field News, November 1980. Toronto, October 5 – A few short hours after placing seventh in the Diet Pepsi 10K, Bill Rodgers jetted north to run the Labatt’s Toronto Marathon. “I’m probably not going to win in New York because…
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. – Edward Abbey Birth date 20 Sep 1949 When did you start running and why? I’m a Vermont country boy who grew up in a small town when television was in its infancy – a snowstorm in a box – and kids…