Archive For The “Running Free” Category
The five S’s of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit. – Ken Doherty The photograph of you jumping over that barrier makes this whole project worthwhile. I am so glad I made it worthwhile. It is seriously funny.Imagine the next step. With both feet up,…
Original Gangsters of Running and their cross-country experience. Being a series of conversations about the joys of running through the woods and fields and golf courses of cross-country. And I’ll tell you why. Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport. – Chuck Norris How did…
I have nowhere to return to. It’s like a state of imprisonment. The walls of the cell are the horizon of what I can see. Beyond them exists a world that’s alien to me and doesn’t belong to me. So for people like me the only thing possible is here and now, for every future…
Ignore, then, whether you are tall and thin or short and stock, whether they laughed at you at home (where they are often unkind) or at school (where they are mostly blind, anyway). Indeed – to hell with the lot of them if you ‘feel’ you can do it. – Percy Cerutty As a matter…
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even – if you will – eccentricity. That is, something that can’t be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn’t be happy with. – Joseph Brodsky I am virtually amazed I cast a literal shadow as I perpetually pretend to run….
Vincit qui patitur: he conquers, who endures. Don’t forget my ideas are only what’s been written down in history by the great people of the world who’ve gone before. All I’ve done is condense the wisdom of the world into an attitude for athletics. I’m not interested in athletics, I’m only interested in achievement. Athletics…
You must forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can’t know what’s coming. – Frank Shorter Don’t know why right now, but I was somewhat stunned by Frank’s description of demystification of marathoning. The mystery which eludes many race participants today is the puzzle of going as fast as possible. Checking In With…
“It was as if I’d destroyed Hitler and his Aryan-supremacy, anti-Negro, anti-Jew viciousness.” James Cleveland “Jesse” Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete and four-time gold medalist in the 1936 Olympic Games. Owens specialized in the sprints and the long jump and was recognized in his lifetime as “perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and…
I have been a fan of Carl Hatfield since I first saw him with a number one on his chest, looked like a hillbilly hippie, winning another race where the dogs can’t even keep up with him. The double-fisted peace signs for victory. And these days, look at the smile. What’s not to love about…
Legalize all drugs. Let everybody have as much as they want whenever. Dope ’til you explode. – Barker Ajax Yo, yo, yo. It’s these Non-Binary types that worry me. And, of course, being woke as I am, I know it’s wrong of me to feel this way. Many, many people say sumpin’ has be done…