Archive For The “Running Free” Category
Original title: Boston: A Very Special Race. Runner’s Gazette, Summer 1977. Actual article published in actual running magazine. Which I actually don’t remember. Boston. April 18th. Patriots’ Day. 85 degrees. Jerome Drayton won it; Bill Rodgers didn’t. Veli Baly thought he did, but the Turkish champion was “only” second. Ron Wayne finished fourth as the…
and for once bravery looked a lot like running away. – Kat Savage Don’t let me run around, around, around when there’s a road to run down, down, down. Don’t cage me in my friend, my friend? just leave me be it’ll end, it’ll end round and round and round. Run. Run. Run. – August…
I have an inordinate affection for JBS. I have ever since I saw her being pushed down the hotel hallway – in a laundry cart – at the Houston Marathon in ’82, thereabouts. Laughing and squealing. I was laughing and she was squealing. Many years later and now many years ago, I visited her at…
Need is the mother of invention. We were evangelists really, although we didn’t know that. Undated, unnumbered, the first issue of the Sisu Striders newsletter was simply a call to arms. Mimeographed, of course. Summer, 1974. “Sisu” is a one-word description of the spirit of the Finnish people. It translates awkwardly as “pride, determination and…
The Business of Running. That was the headline. Studly black-and-white photo with the caption: “Jack Welch takes a practiced jaunt.” Figure late summer, 1978. Statesman-Journal (Salem, OR). There was an intro in bold italics. “Jack Welch quit law school to take up running – as a business as well as pleasure. He publishes a magazine…
Running as a philosophy has long defined my life. Running as a magazine played an important role. Here’s the lead article in the Business & Finance section of the Register-Guard (Eugene, Oregon). August 31, 1980. Another studly black-and-photo of me – long hair, weird arm carriage and a black “Rumming” t-shirt. (Which I still have,…
There was the original Running magazine and then there was Running magazine after Nike bought it. In between there were two promotional pieces. One by the original Running crew, one by the expanded team with Nike. One not, one slick. The “original” was a four-color, fourteen-page mini-Running. Featuring two articles by Jack Welch and two…
Clive Davies was a friend of mine, who contributed cute line drawings to Running magazine. If you put running aside, he was a classy guy. Running-wise, he was in a class of his own. I should know, I raced against him. He beat me like a freaking tom-tom. My record against him was zero and…
My recollection is this. When I got to Northern Arizona University, right about my first day, I was standing in a maze of rows among the men’s lockers and I hollered overhead, “Anybody want to go for a run?” and this voice answers back, “I do.” and off we went. His name was Ned Frederick….
“For a runner to trace his ROOTS is to Jack a pilgrimage.” Headline of the Sports section of The COMMUNITY PRESS, Salem Oregon. (May 24, 1978.) Written by Rich Addicks Sports Writer. – JDW In a non-genealogical way, Jack Welch will be tracing his roots. At least that’s what he’ll tell you. But really it’s…