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“Greg Meyer was my toughest opponent. He would never give up, either in a workout or a race.”
Who was the obsequious twit who continually described Bill Rodgers as “Mr. Downhill?” Was that supposed to be a comment on Rodgers tactics, or on his career?
This piece does not appear in my award-winning, not-bestselling When Running Was Young & So Were We. Copies of first printing still available on Amazon. Think I have found six-seven additional articles my esteemed book researcher missed. Hell, I don’t remember writing them, so he remains esteemed.
My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams
“If the question were ‘Who did you most enjoy competing against?’ the answer would definitely be Frank Shorter. Distance God.
There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom. – E.A. Bucchianeri “Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right…and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible,…
“We hope we did some good.” – Bill Rodgers, Bill Rodgers Running Center
When sports scientists first heard about the Tendai Marathon Monks, they assumed the reports was exaggerated folklore. [The way sports scientists do.] So, in 2011, a team from Stanford flew to Mount Hiei to document the damage. They expected to find knees ground down to bone. Hips riddled with arthritis. Ankles held together by scar tissue.
She’s on the sixth floor and I am visiting every day, forced to park by the homeless camp on the edge of the lot and limp across the hot pavement past numerous empty spots reserved for the disabled. Flowers wilted before I could get to her private room.
13. “A thing known passes out of the mind into the muscles,” the poet William Carlos Williams knew.
“Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and exercise on the mind.” – Emerson
Exercise. Get healthy. Stretch. Stay hungry.
“The moment my legs begin to move,” noted Thoreau, “my thoughts begin to flow.”
Sue Grafton, author of the Alphabet Is For Making Millions mystery series, works out twice a day. “Writing is hard physical labor and very stress-producing. You have to have some way to blow your tubes and get it out of your system.”