Archive For December 31, 2022
Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there. – Covert Bailey It is a strange place. A strange place indeed. Reno seems an unlikely location to host a health and fitness seminar. Yet some four hundred of us spent…
I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot. – Steven Wright Christmas Eve Three score and sixteen years ago. Seventy-six. 76. Nine hundred and twelve months. The first half of the last century. Possibly. Old. Now. Slept in until 0648. Must…
The symbol of the journey reflects our state, for man is surely on the move toward something. Many of us sense that our human race is on a tightrope and that we must keep moving or fall into the abyss. – Michael Murphy, Golf in the Kingdom. Somebody mentioned Gookinaid and bam! I remembered I…
We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks. — Bill McKibben To all of my neighbors. I don’t mean to be a Grinch, however…. to those of you who decorate your yards for Christmas, would you please avoid anything that has…
Think time capsule. 1995. A cabin near the Siuslaw river, deep in the woods, no television, no paper, but I had a phone. Apparently a few long calls and a couple of the real good guys gave me some time and taught me something about running. Successful distance running is most easily achieved with the…
Should have thought of him sooner. Much sooner. I was talking to a pioneer, looking for a comment on today’s running technology. I distinctly remember being grateful for Gookinaid, she offered. And the moment she said that, I realized I had forgotten about Bill Gookin. An article titled “Fatigue, Dehydration and Activity Drinks” appeared in…
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be! – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Dark water rising…
The best sportswear companies are always hiring thoughtful types, someone once said. Nike wanted my magazine, not me. All other shoe companies lost my number, except Brooks. Brooks had just hired the first woman CEO in running shoe company history. So, already thinking outside the box. With the forthcoming 1996 Olympic Games on American soil,…
I wanted to be a distance god. There. I said it. I would’ve broken out of the lead pack and surged away, thrown down some impossible splits, devastated the elites as I stretched my lead, merciless, alone…almost floating. The field would’ve strung out and withered behind me as I burned and buried the best runners…
I don’t think you can become an outstanding runner unless you get a certain amount of enjoyment out of the suffering. You have to enjoy absorbing it, controlling it, and – ultimately – overcoming it. – Derek Clayton The Honolulu Marathon is like a box of chocolate-covered macadamia nuts. You always know what you are…