Archive For The “Running Free” Category
This book is dedicated to every person who has ever pursued a difficult goal and followed that quest to its conclusion. – Jay Birmingham, Raleigh, North Carolina 2024 Chapter One BILL SZYMCZAK At this distance, details are lost: all I can see is a terrible crush of bodies. The panicked mob pushes, everyone mindless…
Writing is hard. Personally, I’d rather read. So, I will be offering Throwback Thursdays as needed. It’s Thursday in Europe.2015, still trying to convince myself there was still a chance I could run. And ‘still’ it was. “Old age is very demanding somehow,” author Kay Boyle once wrote a much younger friend. “One knows what…
I thought about how many preconceived notions would crumble when I trotted along for 26 miles. – Bobbi Gibb, first woman to finish the Boston Marathon, 1966 Where To Watch This year’s Boston Marathon will be aired live in its entirely throughout New England on WCVB-Channel 5 (coverage from 4:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.), and nationally on…
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…