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My feelings for Kenny as a friend were only exceeded by my amazement that one person could be so gifted in two different venues. There was that magic he made with words and then the physical/mental package that allowed him to run faster and longer than all but two or three other people on planet…
We are now in a post-fact world. I can’t even talk to a lot of friends and family members and people I care so much about and I have for my whole life. It was never this bad. How did it get this bad? – Joe Scarborough It’s alway been this bad. Almost came to…
morning grasswater hardens and garbage cans fall silent. The bees bury their own. October 16, 1974 Flagstaff, Arizona USA
All I want to do is drink beer and train like an animal. – Rod Dixon Think it was 1980, in Purchase, New York, at the headquarters of a carbonated beverage company, when Rod Dixon and I first crossed paths. He was an invited athlete and I was happy just to get in the door….
Being himself, however, really meant not just a Jew or just an American but both and neither…. An exile, he sits down by the waters of Manhattan to weep; a wry smile comes over his face, for he realizes that he is home. And then he really weeps. – L.S. Dembo Charles Reznikoff was born in…
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…