Author Archives: Don McLean

Wastewater testing at New Mexico high schools. Yikes! Taylor Swift can beat Don (you?) in a 5K. Consider

Books read in November. Five favorites with astericks. Thoreau: A Sublime Life by Maximilien Le Roy Desire of the Everlasting Hills by Thomas Cahill* Samuel Johnson Is Indignant by Lydia Davis War Trash by Ha Jin Apropos of Nothing by … Continue reading →

Inside the Minds of Super Agers

Ode To Slow Running

Ireland is the best. Great place to visit. Ancestry says Don is 48% Irish.

UO part of new international collective focused on sports …Note Sebastian Coe’s two jobs. A prominent feature at Loughborough University is Bastard Gates, an entrance named after some worthy Loughborough professor, William Bastard. Further down the rabbit hole, I learned … Continue reading →

Books read in October. Five favorites with astericks. The Longest Race by Kara Goucher A Song Everlasting by Ha Jin The Noise of Typewriters by Lance Morrow The Eleventh Man by Ivan Doig Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel* The Immortalists: … Continue reading →

Life Lessons From an Ageless Mongolian Marathoner

28:26 at last night’s 5K. Results.

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