Geoffrey Mutai’s one-second win at Sunday’s BMW Berlin Marathon all but sewed up the 2011-2012 World Marathon Majors series title for the 31 year-old Kenyan… Read more “MAKING A MOCKERY OF COMPETITION”
Category: Opinion
DERDERIAN ELECTED USATF-NE PRESIDENT
His career as a runner, coach, author and journalist is unique…Now Tom Derderian adds a political wing to his CV. Last Sunday September 23rd the long-time Greater… Read more “DERDERIAN ELECTED USATF-NE PRESIDENT”
ROAD RACING INCORPORATED INTO WORLD CHAMPS SCHEDULE?
Beginning in 1992 in Newcastle, England, the IAAF staged a World Half Marathon or Road Racing Championship every year for 19 straight years. By 2002… Read more “ROAD RACING INCORPORATED INTO WORLD CHAMPS SCHEDULE?”
COMPETITION, NOT TIME, SPURS RITZ IN CHICAGO
Dathan Ritzenhein’s 60:56 third-place finish at Sunday’s Rock `n” Roll Philadelphia Half-Marathon sets him up well for his marathon in Chicago in three weeks time.… Read more “COMPETITION, NOT TIME, SPURS RITZ IN CHICAGO”
ROMNEY AT ODDS WITH PATIENCE AND AMBITION
As the professional fields for the 2012 BMW Berlin and Bank of America Chicago Marathons have been announced, it reminds us that the marathon requires a different… Read more “ROMNEY AT ODDS WITH PATIENCE AND AMBITION”
“YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT”
Racing has always been the most lucid teacher, revealing hard truths with each carving stride. The ways of God are more mysterious, as Ryan Hall… Read more ““YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT””
THE ENDS AND MEANS OF LANCE
At what point do ends and means come into conflict with ones such as Lance Armstrong or his obsessive Ahab-like hunter, USADA? That question surfaced again this past… Read more “THE ENDS AND MEANS OF LANCE”
CIRQUE de S’OLYMPICS
Now that the Olympic flame has been extinguished in London, the time has come to consider the lessons learned and to plot the road ahead. Certainly, Team… Read more “CIRQUE de S’OLYMPICS”
STRIVING TO AN IDEAL OF A HIGHER LIFE
The father of the modern Olympic movement, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, defined Olympism to include “adhering to an ideal of a higher life, to strive for perfection.” An honorable goal,… Read more “STRIVING TO AN IDEAL OF A HIGHER LIFE”
DRINKING THE OLYMPIC KOOL-AID
It is a spectacle beyond wonder, and an all but incomprehensible effort to stage, primarily for the host city and its organizing committee. But so, too, for… Read more “DRINKING THE OLYMPIC KOOL-AID”
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