As expected, there was much ballyhoo, both pro and con, following Tigst Assefa’s stunning women’s world record at yesterday’s BMW Berlin Marathon. Her 2:11:53 winning time decimated… Read more “WHAT THE PERCENTAGES SHOW”
Category: Commentary
IS IT TIME FOR A NEW DISTANCE?
The Marathon and half-marathon are the only two foot races designated by name rather than time (one-hour run, 24-hour-run, etc.) or distance (100 meters, 5000 meters, etc.).… Read more “IS IT TIME FOR A NEW DISTANCE?”
LYLES RILES
Noah Lyle’s comment about track and field being a true world championship sport while the NBA is “World Champion of what? The United States?” continues to make news… Read more “LYLES RILES”
DEVELOPING A SENSE OF WORTH
In 2009, a year before he passed at age 98, my father compared growing up in the 1920s and ‘30s with how he saw youngsters growing up… Read more “DEVELOPING A SENSE OF WORTH”
SYSTEMS CREATE REALITIES
I am certainly not the first, much less the only, scribe to address this issue. Inside The Games’ Duncan Mackay had a very good article out today.… Read more “SYSTEMS CREATE REALITIES”
RICK HOYT PASSES, LEAVING A LASTING LEGACY
News of racing pioneer Rick Hoyt‘s passing reached the west coast today (22 May 2023), flooding me with memories of the early years of the running boom in… Read more “RICK HOYT PASSES, LEAVING A LASTING LEGACY”
CONSIDERING THE 2023 LONDON MARATHON
Not much, really, to add to all the other analysis of April 23rd’s remarkable 2023 TCS London Marathon. Except, gee whiz, for a once feared, myth-making distance,… Read more “CONSIDERING THE 2023 LONDON MARATHON”
KIPCHOGE UNSURE WHY HIS LEG GAVE OUT IN BOSTON
In Tom Derderian’s magisterial book, the Boston Marathon: The History of the World’s Premier Running Event, he describes the 1990 Boston Marathon thusly. /When 1988 Olympic marathon… Read more “KIPCHOGE UNSURE WHY HIS LEG GAVE OUT IN BOSTON”
FINALLY, THE GOAT IS READY TO CLIMB
With no TV gig to distract me this year, and thousands of miles separating me from my old haunts, I’ve been freed up this 2023 Patriot’s Day… Read more “FINALLY, THE GOAT IS READY TO CLIMB”
PRE-BOSTON 2023 – A HISTORY LESSON
Coming into the 1996 Boston Marathon, history draped the centennial of the grand race like the bunting atop the finish line structure. That Patriot’s Day, a record… Read more “PRE-BOSTON 2023 – A HISTORY LESSON”
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