Don's Diary

Gangs, guns and drugs

USATF Board Deals With Fallout From CEO’s Salary… A continuing train wreck.

Leurene Hildenbrand stays active in multiple sports at age 84 …Even more so at 88. A profile in the June 28th Wall Street Journal has the details. She continues to exercise three and four times a day.

Eugene has some awesome age group athletes. Including Colleen Milliman. The complete interview was featured in the OTC Newsletter two years ago. She continues to compete. A sharp and dear lady.

Confirmed cases and hospitalizations around the U.S. have already crept up to concerning levels as states and cities reopen. By July, most schools will have to make a final decision about holding athletics in the fall… Read.

Oregon Ducks’ decision not to report the number of athletes testing positive for coronavirus raises oversight concerns

Ya think?

Reexamining the Mythology of the Tarahumara Runners

Born to Run is a silly book. Ditto barefoot running and minimalist shoes. I started running barefoot, a 10th grader in 1961. We trained and raced barefoot. We rarely wore the crap shoes then available.

There’s no romance about stone bruises.

Gogol wrote a short story about a drunk who wakes up and finds a nose in his breakfast. Crazy, eh? Perhaps no more so than what we see in the news each morning.

The Nose

Everesting

Twice in one week!!! Read.

Runners and hikers, how much elevation can you achieve in one month?

Original Gangsters of Running (Frank Shorter)

Crazy!

Don’t know or care what side you’re on. Read.

Concatenation

Awesome form. Karsten Warholm

Now three months ago, quarantined, some guy Rx’d Longmire. On Netflix. So I watched the first one, and the remaining 62 episodes. Crazy, I admit.
Then I started reading the Longmire novels. Eight so far.

And now into two mystery novelists, Peter May and Arnaldur Indridason. So far, six by May and seven by Indridason. If curious, suggest you start with The Blackhouse by May, Jar City by Indridason. …We were all set to attend a wedding outside Reykjavik. Now postponed to next year.

You?

65-Year-Old Ultrarunner Errol “The Rocket” Jones Is a Philosopher of Pain