Archive For The “Running Free” Category
Resilience can go an awful long way. – Eddie The Eagle RESOLUTE RUPP By TONI REAVIS There are runners who do well on flat courses, others who perform their best on difficult layouts. There are those whose wheelhouse is in paced races, and others who show form in pure competition. Then there’s the weather to consider….
An interview with Eleanor Robinson (formerly Adams) by Katie Holmes of RunYoung50 By 1987, British runner Eleanor Adams had been racing ultra-distances for five years, establishing herself as one of the world’s greatest ultrarunners, setting multiple world bests at events including 24-hour and 6-day events in Europe, Australia and the USA. This is the story…
If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself. But if it’s a slow pace, and I get beaten by a kicker who leaches off the front, then I’ll always wonder, ‘What if…?’ – Steve Prefontaine The 1975 Elite Runners Study: How Are Elite Distance Runners Different…
If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done. – Thomas Jefferson Occam’s Runner would have us believe the simplest best way to be a better runner is to run more. Back when the OGORs roamed the roads, alternatives, additions, supplemental activities never seemed a thought. If…
He runs because he has to. Because in being a runner, in moving through pain and fatigue and suffering, in imposing stress upon stress, in eliminating all but the necessities of life, he is fulfilling himself and becoming the person he is. – George Sheehan Came across the official results of the 1974 USA National Marathon…
“So many runners get injured before they reach their full potential. Your top tier racing career lasted for at least (—) years. What supplemental exercises, if any, did you do to avoid injuries?” First of all, I wasn’t very good at avoiding injuries. Injuries are what ended my racing career on the National stage and…
A one-time 2:25 marathoner is now a volunteer high school XC/T&F coach in Williamsburg, VA. May be projecting here, but I get the impression Coach thinks he could’ve run faster if he only had been able to duck injury. He’s read all the OGOR pieces, but when Vol. 2 began, he decided another interview question…
When I was a new runner in New England reading my bi-monthly Runner’s World over and over and over again, I remember black & white photos of a distance runner in the Pacific Northwest who always seemed alone and soaking wet and having a great time. Hair plastered, eyes tight, he was a winner. Not…
Thus I urge you to go onto your greatness if you believe it is in you. Think deeply and separate what you wish from what you are prepared to do. – Percy Cerutty The Original Gangsters Of Running (Volume 1) Jerry Jobski Benji Durden Jackie Hansen Joe Henderson Ken Martin Mark Covert Bill Rodgers Don…
Probably been to the race a dozen times. Over a forty-year span. I haven’t been to Waikiki for five years now. But no Pearl Harbor Day arrives, I don’t think of Honolulu. Friends like Gerry Lindgren and Jack & Donna Scaff. A special race with special people. Mahalo. – JDW HONOLULU MARATHON CAPS RECORD YEAR DECEMBER…