Archive For The “Running Free” Category
On The Road. Track & Field News. February 1982. $10,000 For Durden & Binder Houston, January 24 – It might be somewhat a difficult question. Is the 30-story atrium of the Hyatt Regency more impressive than a $10,000 First Prize for the Houston-Tenneco Marathon? For the top runners in this, the initial event on the…
Track & Field News February 1982 Half-Marathon PR For Benji Savannah, Georgia, January 9 – The Savannah Half-Marathon is not exactly a major waystop on the big-time road circuit. But the distance is a nice one and the town is rather marvelous. And sometimes it helps to get out of the snowy North, perhaps to…
The “On The Road” column in Track & Field News for February 1982 opened with this note. If action in the first month of the year is any indication, 1982 is going to be a very hot road campaign, and just in the U.S. Domestically, Alberto Salazar continues to knit a mantle of invincibility, while…
“I will run with perfect style when they start judging races for their beauty, like figure-skating. For now, I just want to run as fast as possible.” Dawned on me, I forgot about Emil Zatopek when I started the Original Gangsters Of Running. Took one look at the man and saw right away improper form…
Being The Continued Adventures and Misadventures of Bob Hodge, Author, Mountaineer and Erstwhile Professional Road Racer. The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Busted and Broken The Skylark was acting funky, wouldn’t start with any reliability. Dave said,…
Biography: Tim Tays was a distance runner in Albuquerque, New Mexico as a boy and got “good,” but not good enough to beat the national high school boys’ cross-country champion who lived in Sky City Pueblo outside Grants, New Mexico. Even though Tays never won a coveted state title (he was second behind a state-record…
Being The Continued Adventures and Misadventures of Bob Hodge, Author, Mountaineer and Erstwhile Professional Road Racer. [Editor’s note: Hodgie-san assures me he wrote this on one continuous roll of e-mail.] Digging deeper still looking for the causes of this disillusionment with most everything even the athletics had lost its luster perhaps that is what happens…
Being the continued adventures – and misadventures – of Bob Hodge, Professional Road Racer. I had a plan to get me back in the groove get my mojo working and on paper it held a lot of promise but now three weeks in beyond tired, injured and thoroughly banjaxed I just wanted to go home. But, I…
Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize ‘The stars are words’ and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of…
A common theme one finds in classical mythology is the belief that all events are predetermined, that all outcomes have already been decided – by gods, weaving together the strands of fate. – Weaver By Bob Hodge Felt it a time or two, I ain’t going to lie. Most often those things you worry about…