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When you watch track and field for the first time, you may wonder why the sprinters seem about to punch someone – okay, milers, too – while meanwhile the pole vaulters are all hugging one another. The latter have learned a lesson – you compete against the event, not against each other. You can learn a lot from track & field. About yourself, if nothing else.
If you haven’t already discovered this book, this may be the greatest track biography ever written. I don’t think Kenny Moore could have touched this. I am only 50 pages into it since I read it only at breakfast, but this is fantastic.
Not so fast, my friend.
Mrs. Slaney’s birthday, my knee blew up again and I cannot stand on my own two feet. Going on a month now, too depressed to write and hard to find a comfortable position to compose. Tough times. Then I get on social media and hello, it’s Benji Durden’s birthday. He always manages to cheer me…
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Nelson Mandela 2015, I wrote You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no real joy in living your whole life stuck to the ground. Try flying. 2025, older now. I could more easily fly today than…
Promised Throwback Thursday, and I shall remember whenever the stars align. Don’t always feel fully compositional. Here’s something from October 2015. The young redhead was still a member of The Deep State. Drug Court Administrator. Geez, what was I thinking? My wife asked for a favor. My wife asked for a…
2025. Brooksville, Florida. Five in the afternoon. Hot and humid in the pouring rain. Left Knee (“Neal”) blew up again. Regular readers might know, that’s the fourth time. Four. 4. Dog in my lap, ice bag on my compression wrapping. Pain so bad, my knee specialist has agreed to see me in just ten days….
“Let me bring to your attention to the increased cover price. The additional twenty-five cents is our response to a number of running stores who requested a larger retail margin. The extra quarter is being passed on directly to those stores, and RUNNING’s income will not be affected.” – From the Publisher Recently surprised by…
Who’s the guilty party? You make up your own mind.
Still get a kick out of seeing my name in print, in any periodical – English or otherwise – that ain’t the police blotter. Or the obits.
I turn the radio off as we pull into the Woodburn Drag Strip, feeling like a 98-pound weakling at a body-building contest. I park next to a chopped and channeled ’50 black Merc with a bumper sticker that reads: “Concerned About My Driving? Call 1-800-WHO-Cares?”