Archive For The “Running Free” Category
“If you don’t think you are good enough to win, why bother showing up?” Back in the day, living in the Pacific Northwest, racing in the same events, watching from the stands, you get a certain sense of an athlete. Later, if you are lucky, you get to meet some. One or six will leave…
“Running is his only way of surviving.” 1979. I owned a running store, half a running magazine, and was Road Racing editor for Track & Field News. Claimed to be The World’s Slowest Professional Runner. Let’s just say, I was involved. Anyway, found my contemporaneous notes about a movie titled “Running.” Apparently, I saw the…
Ask and wait expectantly for the answer. – Lailah Gifty Akita Shy guy asking for a date at the end of the work week. Imagine a middle-aged Nike executive. Excuse me, Miss, but I am taking a pre-weekend survey. I’d like to ask you a single multiple-choice question, okay? Fine. Now here’s the question – will…
‘I am here, forever, to protect you. To help you, to love you. To keep you happy.’ It was an oath that every elf knew, but never had to say. There was no prompt. At a certain age, two elves of nearly the same name would meet. Then one would say the oath, simply because…
Fortune sides with him who dares.― Virgil Originally titled “Rodgers Moves North” from Track & Field News, November 1980. Toronto, October 5 – A few short hours after placing seventh in the Diet Pepsi 10K, Bill Rodgers jetted north to run the Labatt’s Toronto Marathon. “I’m probably not going to win in New York because…
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. – Edward Abbey Birth date 20 Sep 1949 When did you start running and why? I’m a Vermont country boy who grew up in a small town when television was in its infancy – a snowstorm in a box – and kids…
You may have already read this year in the life of a vagabond runner but only as a serial novella. Here is the whole enchilada, en toto, so to speak. Unedited. Perhaps some popcorn. Think of me as Jann Wenner and the role of Tom Wolfe is played by Bob Hodge. Or, for you movie…
“There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. “But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. “Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are…
Still digging through the layers of the last box of archives. Come across a clipping, a letter to the editor, from back in the day when you actually put some words down on paper and mailed them at the post office. Got in a lot of miles going back and forth to the P.O. I…
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. – Robert Burton Among athletes, road racers are notoriously outspoken. Underpaid and overworked. It was great fun. You’re alone off by yourself, and there’s a lot of pain, and plenty of time to think. The following appeared in the ROAD section of “U.S….