Archive For The “Running Free” Category
Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring. – Vladimir Nabokov The Boston Marathon is sacred to many of us. You know who you are. Bob Hodge, for example. And me, too. Forty-five years ago, Bob Hodge, bib No. 1066, finished third in the Boston Marathon. Right behind Bill…
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips. – Salman Rushdie Cerberus is a vicious three-headed dog. Basically, my spirit animal. In Greek mythology, Cerberus (/ˈsɜːrbərəs/; Greek: Κέρβερος Kerberos [ˈkerberos]), often called the “hound of Hades”, is the monstrous multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld to prevent the dead from…
We’re all scared to death. I guess that’s the penalty we pay for living in a world where all the price tags end in 99 cents, and they sell mortuary plots on billboards next to the freeway. What you do is … is keep laughing. – Jim Rockford Remember “The Rockford Files”? Showing my age…
One of these times I’ll catch that perfect peak of a day, and when I blow away from the field there’ll be no catching me. – Tom Fleming LONG RUN FOR THE MONEY MARATHONERS EARNED AS MUCH AS A BUCK A STEP WHILE VYING FOR 100 GRAND IN L.A. By Kenny Moore for Sports Illustrated….
If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn’t ask me, I’d still have to say it. – George Burns Next-generation aging experiments have already led to findings that extend the life span of mice by…
“The night before I woke up, I had a nightmare that I didn’t finish the race…Just all the stress of this race, I don’t think I went to the well as much as I did in Chicago or Boston, as far as during the race. I was so nervous that I was going to mess…
The Olympic Trials are the most beautiful heart pumping heart breaking race. 6 peoples’ dreams come true. Everyone else: Proud, defeated, motivated, hungry, questioning. And so WE LINE UP again. Keep paying attention to our sport, all years, all races, tons of stories. It’s good! – Stephanie Bruce Some men in their old age look…
Never ask from whence a “marketing crew” gets its numbers. – Anon. In today’s super shoes, women are running faster than Abebe Bikila could travel barefoot. Twenty-three year-old Kelvin Kiptum can see a sub-two-hour marathon from his front porch. Frankly, it’s all a tad mindboggling. Is this just natural wonderfulness by highly-trained gifted athletes? Is…
Agnes Jebet Ngetich becomes the first woman to break the 29 minutes barrier in a 10km race. The Kenyan clocks an incredible 28:46 in Valencia to break the world record by almost half a minute. Ngetich also split 14:13 for the first 5k – which ties the road world record set by Beatrice Chebet –…
Flagstaff, in the mid-1970s, I was self-coached by something of a maniac. There were stair workouts, observatory runs, tofu loaf for Thanksgiving, there were two-mile repeats, lost in the woods, European goats on the loose and Native American buddies, the devotion of young wives and so much darn fun. Must have been all that fresh…