Archive For The “Running Free” Category
“The night before I woke up, I had a nightmare that I didn’t finish the race…Just all the stress of this race, I don’t think I went to the well as much as I did in Chicago or Boston, as far as during the race. I was so nervous that I was going to mess…
The Olympic Trials are the most beautiful heart pumping heart breaking race. 6 peoples’ dreams come true. Everyone else: Proud, defeated, motivated, hungry, questioning. And so WE LINE UP again. Keep paying attention to our sport, all years, all races, tons of stories. It’s good! – Stephanie Bruce Some men in their old age look…
Never ask from whence a “marketing crew” gets its numbers. – Anon. In today’s super shoes, women are running faster than Abebe Bikila could travel barefoot. Twenty-three year-old Kelvin Kiptum can see a sub-two-hour marathon from his front porch. Frankly, it’s all a tad mindboggling. Is this just natural wonderfulness by highly-trained gifted athletes? Is…
Agnes Jebet Ngetich becomes the first woman to break the 29 minutes barrier in a 10km race. The Kenyan clocks an incredible 28:46 in Valencia to break the world record by almost half a minute. Ngetich also split 14:13 for the first 5k – which ties the road world record set by Beatrice Chebet –…
Flagstaff, in the mid-1970s, I was self-coached by something of a maniac. There were stair workouts, observatory runs, tofu loaf for Thanksgiving, there were two-mile repeats, lost in the woods, European goats on the loose and Native American buddies, the devotion of young wives and so much darn fun. Must have been all that fresh…
“I ran my PR and almost snagged a medal. My whole Olympic experience was a blast, and to top it off with a great performance made it especially memorable.” – Don Kardong, 1976 Olympic marathoner TRIGGER WARNING: What follows is CRT – Critical Running Theory. CRT is the highly insightful albeit often inexact academic study…
If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad. – Jane Austen Audain Wins Bonne Bell Championships (’82) Boston, USA. October 11, 1982. – Some 7700 women entered the 6th Annual Bonne Bell 10K Championships. As third-place finisher Francie Larrieu put it, “Just to be a part…
Jogging through the forest is pleasant, as is relaxing by the fire with a glass of gentle Bordeaux and discussing one’s travels. Racing is another matter. The frontrunner’s mind is filled with an anguished fearfulness, a panic, which drives into pain. – Kenny Moore Kenny was special to all of us. We knew him as…
“What makes you think you can take on a woman with five kids?” Seattle’s James Gang was among the first to retail RUNNING magazine. And then I became a store owner myself. Remember one day I sold a single pair of shoe laces for eighty-one cents. Only sale of the day. I’m telling you, retail…
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. – Albert Einstein I covered the inaugural Waikiki Mile in 1994 for Track & Field News. I know I did. You’d think I could find the results somehow. But no….