Archive For August 31, 2023
If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat. – Steven Wright When I began road racing in 1972, a feared name in New England was Rick Bayko. He was that good. Rick started one of the earliest running magazines. He opened a running specialty shop. He was that important. An Original Gangster of Running. When…
The bad news is, time flies. The good news is, you’re the pilot. – Michael Altshuler “I realized that as simple as this notion sounds, there’s actually a real challenge involved. Why? Because you have to risk failure and embarrassment to show who you are within the thing you’re making” ✒ Howard Sherman
DISPATCH FROM THE ROLLING STONED SPORTS DESK Wallow with the eagles, soar with the pigs. – Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Started this life of running by accident. Few weeks later I saw that Nina Kuscsik became the first official women’s winner of the Boston Marathon. Figured if this “shapely” mother, older than me, could do…
Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing every year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared. – Jack Handey Dear Momma & Papa – Summer Camp is so exciting. Apparently a gentleman dove into the lake and had a heart attack and died. Pretty scary, actually, diving…
I don’t have any reminiscences, except that no matter how hard you run, it still takes an hour. No other foot race is like that. – Don Kardong The event really got my attention when Jos Hermens broke the 13-Mile barrier on May 1, 1976. The Dutchman covered 20.944 kilometers in just sixty minutes. I…
Did you ever run behind a slow pack? You get a trailing wind and a lot of body odor. – Steve Prefontaine I got the axe at Nike shortly after Zola Budd tripped Mary in the ’84 Olympic Games. The world’s leading sports apparel company has never (to-date) issued any formal comment whatsoever re a…