Category Archives: Main

Watch This Weird, Fabulous Short Film …I saw Bruce Kidd at the Los Angeles Sports Arena in 1962.

Fending?

Books read in 2021 Paris In The Present Tense by Mark Helprin (and all his fiction) Rules of Civility: The 110 precepts that guided our first president in war and peace by George Washington Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the rake … Continue reading →

I continue doing the hill repeats, usually every other workout, the goal being another Everesting, running up to exceed the elevation of Mt. Everest, 29,032 feet. As before, most of such stuff is done at Skinner Butte in Eugene, an … Continue reading →

Quebec shoppers need to show vaccine passports to access liquor, cannabis stores. …But not the people who work there

Children in the Garden: On Life at a 3,100 Mile Race …On a site called Longreads. (It’s a very long read.)

Let’s run the Manitou Incline.  Note the elevations, 6530′ to 8550. …Just interviewed a past Colorado high school track and cross coach. His school was at 7500′ Much of their training was at elevations above 7500. They were state champs … Continue reading →

Eric Dickerson: The NFL is another no-good entity

Football Is A Sucker’s Game …Published in 2002. Wikipedia brings us current on coach Jim Leavitt. Not pretty. Too woke to travel write?

Here’s my latest Q&A in the Oregon Track Newsletter Sportswashing …I’m avoiding the Winter Olympics. If alive in 1850 America, wouldn’t we want to avoid the slave South?