Archive For The “Running Free” Category
Want to say, everything good about distance running is contained in the following report. Might not be wrong. From Track & Field News, August 1980. – JDW Litchfield, Ct., June 9 – Stride for stride, Bob Hodge and Randy Thomas neared the finish line of the 4th Annual Litchfield Hill Seven-Mile (7M) race. But there was…
Believe in something? Mohatma Gandhi said, “To believe in something, and not live it, is dishonest.” The Paradoxical Commandments People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.Succeed anyway. The…
Many think the USA boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was the end of the age of innocence for road racing. From The Bible of the Sport, August 1980. – JDW Gary Bjorklund Rejuvenated Duluth, MN, June 11 – When we last checked in with Gary Bjorklund, he was depressed, discouraged, distraught, disgusted…
The Nike Times published my surprisingly short-lived Out Of Bounds. “It’s Time To Cut The Yawn” appeared September 16, 1983. Of course, national syndication was the dream. – JDW (Special to TNT) Good morning. I was assigned the task of writing a sports column about how boring sports columns are. Seems an easy enough assignment, unless…
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people. – Bill Moyers STRANGERS By Lazlo Slomovits A man is running hard to catch the bus that just left. It’s picking up speed but he pulls even and raps on its side, and a woman by the…
Here’s an interview (November 1981) with my good buddy and eternal running legend Bill Rodgers. Our conversation originally appeared in Track & Field News, where I served a dozen years as Senior Editor of Road Racing. As I put together my award-winning, critically acclaimed collection When Running Was Young & So Were We, I left…
This interview is solid gold, if I do say so myself. Marc was generous with his time and his mind and his mouth. His heart showed, too. From that book I wrote. – JDW In The Words of Marc Davis (Honolulu 12/10/94) [Age 25 on December 17, 1994. Originally hailed from Oceanside, California, Home of…
Mid-May in the year 2020, I received a newsletter most welcome from Let’s Run. And I’m looking at it with some interest and I come across this. The Deena Kastor Podcast LRC visitors recently voted Kastor, the US marathon record holder at 2:19:36, as the greatest women’s US distance runner in history. Kastor talks about…
One great lady. One amazing runner. Excerpted from When Running Was Young & So Were We. An authentic collection. Originally, Track & Field News, June 1989. Talk to Ingrid Kristiansen: you hear in her words the same strength – the same intensity and dedication – that is so apparent in her every performance.Watch Kristiansen run….
Truth be told, I have long admired Joe Henderson. Been friends almost as long. We are talking decades here. Joe Henderson has pointed the way and touched positively the lives of many people. We are talking many thousands by now. Found a forgotten review of a remembered book in RUNNING:The Magazine For Thinking Runners. Volume…