Archive For May 31, 2024
True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law. – Ronald Reagan (Republican) If Jon Stewart & Stephen King collaborated… ‘This is the Final Battle’ Republicans, as you’d imagine, are taking the news very well. As is often the case these days, GOP reactions…
On February 28, 1970, Caroline Walker set a world best in the marathon with a time of 3:02:53 at the inaugural Trail’s End Marathon in Seaside, Oregon. She was sixteen-years-old. My first marathon hero was a woman – Nina Kuscsik, the women’s winner at the 1972 Boston Marathon. Back when you could afford a hotel room. Thought if she could do it,…
“If you feel that you’re running, no matter how slow you’re going, no one can say you’re not.” Here’s my take on Jim Fixx and running. He got up off his fat ass and the activity became a sport which became a lifestyle and then he became himself. I was surprised when he dropped dead,…
Three laps to go. Jeremy accelerated purposefully now and moved within ten meters of the leaders. O’Neal dropped the last two pretenders over the fifth water jump and relaxed. But as he passed the finish line with two laps remaining, the announcer’s message unnerved him. Chapter Six JEREMY STANFIELD Wellston and its surrounding…
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. – Elie Wiesel White Mob in Oklahoma Abducts and Lynches Laura Nelson and Her Young Son On May 24, 1911, shortly…
Our destiny is to run to the edge of the world and beyond, off into the darkness. – Thomas Aquinas THE FRONT RUNNER… You yawn.You always yawn before a race. Every race, but you yawn a little longer and a little yawnier before this race, today’s race.Can’t help but notice the breeze. The trees bold…
The Demon was a Natural. He floated around the track, surging, easing, making a mockery of the pitiful mortals who tested their limits of oxygen uptake, lactate tolerance, and muscle fatigue. At some point in every race, the Demon of Pain cast his net over the field of runners. All felt it. Chapter Five JOHN…
Wouldn’t it be great, if we could all remember that we come away from each new experience… a different person? We are changed by each experience just as each person we react with is changed by us; that each new encounter frames the arch through which we see our world and therefore shapes what we…
Every time I fail, I assume I will be a stronger person for it. I keep on running figuratively and literally, despite a limp that gets more noticeable with each passing season, because for me there has always been a place to go and a terrible urgency to get there. – Joan Benoit So, anyway,…
Alamosa, Colorado, hosted the Olympic Trials marathon in August 1968. Because its 7,544-foot elevation was nearly identical to that of Mexico City, no qualifying standard had been set. Fears that runners might die in the rarified air seemed unfounded, but nevertheless, racing at that altitude caused loved ones to pause and athletes to wonder. Chapter…