I know running’s focus is rightfully centered on the USATF and UK National Track & Field Championships going on this weekend to select their respective teams for… Read more “R.I.P. JOSEPH CHEBET”
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”
MEMORIAL DAY 2023 – THE LETTER HOME
June 11, 1944 Camp Livingston, Louisiana Dearest (Mother), I have just returned from Bing Crosby’s new show Going My Way. It was splendid, a very sweet story… Read more “MEMORIAL DAY 2023 – THE LETTER HOME”
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”
BOSTON 2023 AFTER-ACTION REPORT
At the world’s prominent, flat-course, paced marathons, like the ones in Berlin, London, Tokyo, Valencia, Dubai, Rotterdam, etc., race tactics are as simple as: up and out,… Read more “BOSTON 2023 AFTER-ACTION REPORT”
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”
