Don's Diary

No More Excuses Not to Exercise …You have plenty of time.

About your sugar consumption. Study. The average American consumes 17 teaspoons of added sugar each day, three times more than is considered healthy.

2020 January Oregon Track Club Newsletter …Includes our Q&A with Bob Welch and a book review.

Best? Kenyan. Attend St. Patrick’s High School

Extreme Aging

Why Writing Better Will Make You a Better Person

Dave Barry’s Year in Review

In May of 2019, at the age of 52, I was accepted to the Eli Whitney student program at Yale University… My semester with the snowflakes

Work on these things …Marginal Revolution is one of my go-to sites.

Are You a Jerk?

A book by John Brant

245 pages, published by Ballantine Books

Julius Achon, 12, in strife-torn Uganda, is kidnapped with 14 others by a rebel band He escapes. He self-coaches to a full scholarship in the best prep school. At 17, he is the best Ugandan distance runner, winning world junior titles. On a scholarship at George Mason University, he sets an NCAA record. He competes for Uganda at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics. With his Ugandan family in dire circumstances, he is signed as an assistant coach (pacer for prep prince Galen Rupp) with Salazar and the Nike Oregon Project at a non princely $1500 per month and hence obliged to work an extra four hours daily at the Nike employee store… What a story!!! Brant is one of our best on track, oddly all his books with Salazar being a key character.

Breaking news from the British Journal of Sports Medicine: Any Amount Of Running Linked To Significantly Lower Risk Of Death

Roger Robinson: Peter Snell

He was awesome. I saw him race in 1962.