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The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing the rent, and healing the wound in his divided self. He has found a way to make the ordinary extraordinary; the commonplace unique; the everyday eternal. – George Sheehan Running…
Who is Girma Bekele Gebre? An Ethiopian runner overlooked by just about everyone in the New York City Marathon — until he finished third. By Matthew Futterman for The New York Times It became the question of the day at the New York City Marathon, when the guy few had heard of, the one wearing an…
If I was coaching Mary Cain, I probably wouldn’t have done it to begin with. The first key is knowing who you are. And knowing her ex-coach a little as I do https://www.jackdogwelch.com/?p=14127 the result seems somewhat inevitable. But let’s say you are a high school distance coach and you are trying train young runners….
When my soul was in the lost-and-foundYou came along to claim it. – Carole King I stood next to him. While he was changing his socks, while I chatted with John Tracey. I stood next to him. An intense ferociousness I hadn’t seen before. And I thought, if he’s that way changing his socks, maybe fourteen years later we…
Three course records, two American records, Larry Bird and a private jet. March 14 & March 15, 1981 Runners are supposed to stop and take a rest sometime. Particularly road runners, given all that hard pounding on the pavement. Patti Catalano ignores that shibboleth, and just keeps hammering away. Just like everybody else, she’s getting…
Drink the first. Sip the second. Skip the third. – Knute Rockne How Is Drinking Alcohol Affecting My Workout Routine? We asked the experts for their rules of thumb on how to mix work and play. BY ALEX SHULTZ for GQ. There are few worse feelings in a pickup basketball game than blowing a layup, which…
The best hug is when you don’t know who is healing who. – Nitya Prakash The 1981 Jacksonville River Run 15K had a lasting impact on both winners. Patti Catalano and Dan Dillon are forever linked by those victories and so much more. Here’s the story as told by Dan. Sometime around the late ’80 or…
When last we left you, https://www.jackdogwelch.com/?p=26965 Patti Catalano had just set an American Record for 15 kilometers, shaken the hand of the race director who handed her a trophy as she climbed into a chauffeured limo which whisked her away to an executive airfield where she hopped aboard a waiting private jet. Patti: A private…
If you want to become a better runner, you have to run more often. It is that easy. – Tom Fleming So, here’s the story. If what I remember of my life is true, I was the road racing editor of Track & Field News for a dozen years. God bless those people. Like all…
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings. – Jalaluddin Rumi Finding the right balance. by Peta Bee for Athletics Weekly. Peta Bee…