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“I don’t know where the limits are, but I would like to go there.” I subscribe to The Sports Examiner. Informative and run by an original gangster of running journalism, Rich Perelman. This introduction is his. Kenyan icon Eliud Kipchoge’s stunning 2:01:09 world-record marathon in Berlin included two en-route world bests, one of which shattered a…
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” Most of what follows is not true. By ‘true’, I mean real. When Ronald DeSantis talks about ‘freedom’, he doesn’t mean the word like you think. You are free to do whatever Ronald thinks is right for you to do. Don’t try to…
You would think life couldn’t possibly get more bizarre year after year after year after year. Written about weirdness myself for decades now. See https://www.jackdogwelch.com/?p=1407 This material is from 2017. Lost track during the Pandemic, which continues here in MAGA country. Five more dead this week. Part of normal life and they snicker right in our…
Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there. – Covert Bailey It is a strange place. A strange place indeed. Reno seems an unlikely location to host a health and fitness seminar. Yet some four hundred of us spent…
I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot. – Steven Wright Christmas Eve Three score and sixteen years ago. Seventy-six. 76. Nine hundred and twelve months. The first half of the last century. Possibly. Old. Now. Slept in until 0648. Must…
The symbol of the journey reflects our state, for man is surely on the move toward something. Many of us sense that our human race is on a tightrope and that we must keep moving or fall into the abyss. – Michael Murphy, Golf in the Kingdom. Somebody mentioned Gookinaid and bam! I remembered I…
We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks. — Bill McKibben To all of my neighbors. I don’t mean to be a Grinch, however…. to those of you who decorate your yards for Christmas, would you please avoid anything that has…
Think time capsule. 1995. A cabin near the Siuslaw river, deep in the woods, no television, no paper, but I had a phone. Apparently a few long calls and a couple of the real good guys gave me some time and taught me something about running. Successful distance running is most easily achieved with the…
Should have thought of him sooner. Much sooner. I was talking to a pioneer, looking for a comment on today’s running technology. I distinctly remember being grateful for Gookinaid, she offered. And the moment she said that, I realized I had forgotten about Bill Gookin. An article titled “Fatigue, Dehydration and Activity Drinks” appeared in…
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be! – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Dark water rising…