Archive For The “Running Free” Category
You’ve got to know how to compete and win, life goes too god-damned fast…. No one ever said life was fair. – Joan Crawford You say a six-year-old ran a marathon. Really? Casual observation of contemporary America suggests there are grownups who have yet to total 26.2 miles of running in their entire lifetimes. I…
Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair. – Nelson Mandala Became a runner over a…
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely — at least, not all the time — but essentially,…
When I first started running, I was so embarrassed I’d walk when cars passed me. I’d pretend I was looking at the flowers! – Joan Benoit Samuelson, First Woman Olympic Marathon Champion I’ll be honest, I thought I was listening to an audiobook narrated by a bunch of people I know. Don’t listen to podcasts,…
And while the hearse was delivering legendary Browning Ross to his final resting place, members of the Gloucester Catholic High School track team he coached so proudly jogged alongside in a tear-provoking, gut-wrenching tribute. – Gloucester City News Browning Ross, 74, Founder of Road Runners By Frank Litsky for The New York Times. April 30, 1998….
“I couldn’t neglect my 10-mile run just because I was getting married. If you can get away with it the morning you’re married, you can get away with it anytime, ’cause then they know you mean business.” I don’t remember running with Bill Emmerton, but I imagine it was something of a big deal for…
In all, 242 athletes trained in Flagstaff for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympic Games. If these athletes had competed as “Flagstaffians,” the city would’ve placed 10th in the world – just below Italy – in the overall medal count. – Pine: The Alumni Magazine of Northern Arizona University (Fall 2021) Flagstaff, Arizona. August 6, 1973….
Nothing is more revealing than movement. All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused. Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is…
For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear the leaves and listen to the rain, and look to the day when it is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight. – George Sheehan My second favorite running magazine in the world is Mystical Miles in Holland. New…
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. – Paul Dudley White My run is a walk. Striding as smooth as I can. Slow but going fast. * Pace is a problem. So important not to fall. All pain is…