Archive For The “Running Free” Category
The freedom of cross country is so primitive. It’s woman vs. nature. – Lynn Jennings By Kevin P. Harper ‘Midst trees of orange and red,Under skies of shockingly bright blueWith white clouds floating as they watch the gallant runners.Dry leaves crackle underfoot.Slippery mud waits in ambush in the low spots.Clawing up steep hills,Hurtling, arms akimbo,…
Bob Hodge has written Tales Of The Times: A Runner’s Story. Here’s a chunk I picked out at random. The book’s a treasure, feels like you’re just having a beer or two and telling lies that are true. – JDW 1973 “Bob, what was the toughest race for you? Probably Mt. Washington, right? Or Boston?”…
I write now to better understand myself and the world.And don’t write much for one who understands so little.You can see the problem. In the final analysis – which this might not be – understanding oneself is what all that running was about. Smarter runners often recognize this phenomenon much earlier. – JDW By Timothy…
Track & Field News, September, 1982 Jon Sinclair. Jon Sinclair. Jon Sinclair. Sinclair, Jon. No matter how you say it, the name doesn’t exactly jump in your face and demand attention. Even the ‘h” has deserted. What do you expect? This is clearly a case of Beaver Cleaver meets Rodney Dangerfield. Looking like Huckleberry Finn’s younger brother, Sinclair has been known…
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, ‘I’ve never seen anyone run like that before.’ It’s more than just a race, it’s a style. It’s doing something better than anyone else….
by Adharanand Finn on Striving for the Edges of Human Endurance. The Oman Desert Marathon was my first ultra marathon. It was just over 100 miles (165 kilometers) across the baking sand. I didn’t really want to do it. It only came up as an idea when an editor from The Financial Times contacted me and asked if…
‘You’re alone and you know a few things.’ I just know that I am that good. – Thomas Lux Somewhere near Phoenix, I came out off the desert turned right onto a small paved road before we hit the main street that headed into town where the entire population awaited my arrival. I was a…
Sometimes I feel a little like Forrest Gump. Managed to be in the right place at the right time when something historic was going down. Once or twice. Of course, sometimes they tell you where it’s gonna happen and when. And all I had to do was show up. The first women’s USA Olympic Marathon…
“There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.” Nearly a half century ago, I read Hal Higdon’s On The Run From Dogs and People. Had already decided I wanted to be a fast runner and a published writer and here was proof it could be done. Never got fast…
That was the actual heading for Mike Tymn’s column On Running, which appeared in the Honolulu Advertiser. That was August 14, 1980. – JDW Is the running boom about to end? Frank Shorter’s victory in the 1972 Olympic Marathon is often cited as the spark that set off the running boom. Some observers of the…