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He came into my life when I was 15 years old and molded me into a competitor. He came back into my life when I was 46, divorced, lost and broken. He reminded me that I had a champion’s heart and to never quit. Here’s to you Coach Noe De Leon! The teams are ready…
The content reflects on the 2025 Prefontaine Classic, highlighting performances by Beatrice Chebet and Faith Kipyegon, who broke world records in the 5000m and 1500m respectively. The piece expresses disappointment over the lack of recognition for Steve Prefontaine, despite celebrating the event’s 50th anniversary. Nostalgia for the old Hayward Field is also evident.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. – Nelson Mandela Imagine you only believe what you already think you know. WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT. Imagine you only hear from others what you have…
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer Truth is not defined by repetition nor volume. Truth is not defined by power. Truth is freedom, the freedom to recognize reality. …
In many ways, he was Steve Prefontaine before Pre and Bill Bowerman after Bowerman, and his own man throughout his time in Eugene. – Doug Binder, Dyestat
February 19, 1966— Doris Brown (Heritage) became the first American woman to break 5 minutes for the mile when she set a World Indoor Record of 4:52.0 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, NORTHERN ARIZONA! From Sisu to NATRA, some things never change HIGH COUNTRY RUNNING BY NEIL WEINTRAUBSpecial to the Daily Sun On June 30, 2019, local running legend Nat White introduced Flagstaff’s first running club to High Country Running readers. He wrote how the Sisu Striders, founded in 1974, had organized the…
But, if this part of our history could be told in such a way that those chains of the past, those shackles that physically bound us together against our wills could, in the telling, become spiritual links that willingly bind us together now and into the future – then that painful Middle Passage could become,…
This time last year I just delivered the newspaper, now I read it cover to cover. I was poor before I got a paper route, now I have almost five hundred dollars in the bank. Now I’m Gordy Braun, pronounced brawn, not Gordon Braun, pronounced brown. I’m a track star, a wrestling champion and the uncle to…