Archive For The “Running Free” Category
Haven’t heard back from Rod. Don’t know if he remembers me. We met maybe three times, that I remember. The Pittock Mansion soiree for the Cascade RunOff 15K, Portland, Oregon. We were eyeballing slender ladies in black pants and white blouses who walked about like nymphs with trays of canapes. Diet Pepsi 10K Championships in…
Buddy Edelen might’ve been the original Original Gangster Of Running. “When he ran, a change came over him,” Fred Wilt wrote about Edelen. “You could see the amiability in him right to the time the gun sounded. Then his eyes darkened, his features flattened, his chest expanded, he stood up a little straighter. As the…
“…When you reach the 20-mile mark of a marathon feeling utterly spent, but finish somehow, you suspect you can conquer other seemingly unbearable events in life. After you discover you can set tough goals and prevail, you realize you can accomplish almost anything you put your mind to. “You don’t have to look to the…
The race report originally appeared in Track & Field News. Martin Takes Marathon Lead Sacramento, December 2 – Ken Martin ran 2:11:24 to win the California International Marathon, the final race of the 1984 ARRA Championship Circuit. The former Oregon steeplechaser won $12,000 and set a course record in his debut race. Better yet, the…
I admit I break out into a cold sweat when I hear terms like lactate and anaerobic threshold. We had days when we ran very hard for varying distances. We had intervals – long and short, we had long aerobic days of 15-30 miles and we had easy “filler” days to rest and help get our mileage totals up. We were just not real scientific about it.
Tis known by the name of perseverance in a worthy cause—and obstinacy in a bad one. – Laurence Sterne 1986 I was re-learning the marathon this year, having run more than twenty already in my “career.” I found them to be cruel and unfair, having worked very hard to prepare for so many, only to…
Hearing from Bobby Hodge is like going for a long run with a world-class talker. I struggle to breathe, hopelessly hoping to keep up barely and he’s just jabbering away like we’re not even running hard. – JDW Cutting loose. In 1977 I quit college and got a job in a supermarket, bagging groceries. I…
Since I’d already had the pleasure of reading Hodgie’s Tales of the Times, I asked him what else he had. He sent me this. There is a finish line. But its location can be elusive. – JDW When you decide it is over – that yearning for something – there is also relief when you…
The marathon is a competition between your will and your possibilities. – Jeff Galloway By Jeff Galloway Three of us from the Florida Track Club trained in Vail, Colorado for eight weeks before heading West to the 1972 Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon. The first qualifying race was the 10,000 meters where Frank Shorter and…
“I stopped running because the race ended. I wasn’t tired. I was still feeling good at the finish.” He came to mind when I found pages 5 & 6 of an ancient issue of New England Runner’s Magazine with a list of the 1973 Boston Marathon finishers. #23. Jack Fultz, Washington Sports Club…….. 2:30:55. The…