Monthly Archives: March 2018

How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time. ~Peter Drucker Vin Lananna said today (at … Continue reading →

Let’s toast with green wine. Layne Witherell and Don, friends since Navy boot camp, were born in Los Angeles on 3/20/45, and toasted each other on our 21st birthday with GI gin (codeine-laced cough medicine). …Enjoy Wine Maniacs For my … Continue reading →

Signal on Foothill track & field. …Canyon v. Valencia results. Matthew Nali, Founder and President of SCV Hurdles and SCV Sprints, is back!!! Here. New/Best Running Books and Media Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness: Peak Performance updates Semi-Rad: Friday Inspiration … Continue reading →

Dear NCAA Coaches. Ditto for all coaches. Reminds me of Joe Newton. He cared about everyone on the team, and proved it daily. Bob Huggins Is March’s Author-in-Residence. Note reference to John McPhee’s first book about Bill Bradley. It’s good. … Continue reading →

No shoes. No problem. Watch 76 year-old William Rhoad kick ass. The Week That Was Alex Hutchinson: How Strength Training Makes You Faster When Jerry Schumacher Speaks, Listen Vin Lananna’s Training Principles for Middle Distance and Distance …Read. Haruki Murakami: … Continue reading →

the morning shakeout Jim Ryun on Roger Bannister: Finishing the Race. …Again, I urge you to read Twin Tracks. It’s on my Kindle and, while on the treadmill, will start reading it randomly. The Highs and Low of Cycling Massive … Continue reading →

More on Bannister. The First Four-Minute Mile, In One Pain-Wracked Photo Big Sugar Versus Your Body. …References to Big Sugar, Big Oil, et al. are annoying. Anyone ever stick a gun to our heads and forced us to to wolf … Continue reading →

Edward Cheserek update: “Why Don’t We Go For Sub-3:50?” NYT: Remember When Athletes Didn’t Have to Specialize? These Hall of Famers Do Brad Stulberg: When a Stress Expert Battles Mental Illness The rise and fall of Team Sky Remembering Sir … Continue reading →

Colleen Milliman, born 8/21/26, 5 feet, 1/2 inch, 105 pounds, is the first woman over 90 to record a time for the track mile (indoors or out) at the 2017 Hayward Masters Classic, clocking 13:26.46. (Please pause and reflect on … Continue reading →

Russia facing permanent athletics ban Suicides, Drug Addiction and High School Football Dorm living for professionals in San Francisco National Geographic’s 2018 Adventurers of the Year Just finished Life Is A Wheel. Got it because I like stories of people … Continue reading →