In this time of coronavirus when so much of normal life has been disrupted and locked down, running has once again been touted as a healthy habit… Read more “EVENTS MAY NOT SURVIVE PANDEMIC”
Tag: Running USA
OP-EDS HAVE SOMETIMES EXCLUDED BROADER PERSPECTIVES
If Bob Dylan was right that “you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”, then you don’t need a white history professor (or… Read more “OP-EDS HAVE SOMETIMES EXCLUDED BROADER PERSPECTIVES”
BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO
We’ve all been dumped. And it hurts. But the immediate reflex is always to beg her/him to take us back. “Please, just tell me what to do.… Read more “BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO”
KILLING THE GOLDEN GOOSE
It’s a completely defensible position because it has been taken from a completely defensive posture. If your product can’t be guaranteed for purity, even with new and… Read more “KILLING THE GOLDEN GOOSE”
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PROMOTING AND DIRECTING
Interest in this Friday’s Standard Charter Dubai Marathon continues to mount, though it has little to do with competition. Instead, the focus is almost entirely centered on… Read more “THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PROMOTING AND DIRECTING”
FAD OR LIFESTYLE?
Where lies the line between fad and lifestyle? Who knows if, how, or when one switches from one to the other? So what will history make of this… Read more “FAD OR LIFESTYLE?”
THE DRIP, DRIP, DRIP OF SCANDAL
So on the same day that WADA unanimously declares Kenya non-compliant with its anti-doping code, thereby threatening the East African running juggernaut with exclusion from this summer’s… Read more “THE DRIP, DRIP, DRIP OF SCANDAL”
POP GOES THE BOOM!
The running boom is over, and you can blame the millennials. So says an article in the Wall Street Journal quoting statistics from, among others, Running USA showing… Read more “POP GOES THE BOOM!”
CITIUS, ALTIUS, WHO-IUS
While announcing at the finish line of last weekend’s 37th Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon, Half, and 10K I began chatting with the Hellickson family from Hinckley, Ohio… Read more “CITIUS, ALTIUS, WHO-IUS”
COMING AROUND AGAIN
Tampa, FL. — Certainly, I’ve been a critic over the years of the sport’s de-emphasis on competition in favor of fun-running and charity fund-raising, likening that trend to… Read more “COMING AROUND AGAIN”
