Archive For The “Running Free” Category
A number of the Original Gangsters passed before I could celebrate them. Steve Hoag. Tom Fleming. Pat Porter is gone, but I managed to have a conversation with him on the record. The Panther gets his club patch posthumously. If I find many more forgotten pieces, I may actually have enough for a sequel to…
“The key to success is consistency in training and a determination to give it your very best effort every time.” When did you start running and why? I was adopted at birth and was born with bone deformities of both feet which grew as I grew. They caused me great pain and I did not have a…
It’s at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys. – Emil Zatopek. Sure, it’s true for females, too. You know how slow the go can be looking through old photographs. This last box of archival material gonna take weeks. Think I might be enjoying myself. I look at…
I raced Ron Wayne at least once. I was in sight of the finish line when he won. I was right there. Unfortunately, I had another six-mile lap to go. He beat me by only ninety-two (92) places. Sounds a lot closer than ten kilometers. When did you start running and why? When I was a junior at Brockton…
By Timothy M. Tays, PhD I wanted to be a distance god. There. I said it. I would’ve broken out of the lead pack and surged away, thrown down some impossible late-race splits, devastated the elites as I stretched my lead—merciless, alone, almost floating. The field would’ve strung out and withered behind me as I…
You can get so emotionally invested in the negative stuff that you let it cloud your judgment. – Galen Rupp I googled Joe Binks and one of the images, well, that’s it above. Get the sense Joe Binks looked nothing like that. On the outside. On the inside, might just be a striking resemblance. I…
St. Augustine Beach Seagulls sport mohawks. An old dog moves too slowly. Abandoned Frisbee!!!
obstinate – unreasonably determined to have one’s own way; not yielding to reason or plea; stubborn; dogged; mulish Obstinate. Lord knows, I mean that in a good way. For example, he lives in The Snowmobile Capital Of The North. He ice fishes. For fun. When did you start running and why? I started running…
Just in case you don’t know: she was the first American woman to run a marathon in less than two and a half hours, when she finished second to Grete Waitz, with a time of 2:29:33, in the 1980 New York City Marathon. Okay, Jack, here you go. Pleased as peaches I made the cut….
Timothy M. Tays, PhD The Chameleon Complex—Chapter 28 If you really knew me, you wouldn’t like me; that was my secret. But there was also something inside me—something as small and hard as a Roswell walnut—that wanted to rise up and be better than I felt. I reckoned that I needed to perform better to…