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“This is the best cross-country course in the world,” Sir Seb Coe said. “I think it’s probably safe to say we are in the cross country capital of the United States, if not the world.”
I say for any downturn in your running life (a bad race, an injury or whatever) allow yourself twenty-four hours for a pity party and then move forward with a plan to get stronger.
Staying at the wrong hotel. Blocks within each other SAME NAME but no chance to change. The word “penalties” was used. So I am stuck at the better joint, the one without the hard-partying media coterie. And it’s their turn to buy, too.
One can ensure prosperity and financial success in the coming year by stocking up one’s cupboards, refrigerator, and larder.
But…peel that onion back until you get to the stinky part… Should you really be fifty-years-old when you finally smell it.
One running friend aptly described Kenny as “Maine’s Prefontaine.” The Dog wonders if Pre might not have been Oregon’s Ken Flanders.
My clothes were inadequate for my new station in life, so Danalee had me buy some bell-bottomed jeans, a denim workshirt and a denim jacket. I was a non-conformist, just like everyone else.
“The thing I had to keep telling myself was that I could be bleeding from the eyes and I would not drop out.”
Arguably the finest field of masters miters ever assembled, and the shouting crowd of 6,932 made it one of the most dramatic and exciting events in the two-year history of masters running.