Wednesday

THE IMPORTANCE OF STANDING ON ONE LEG IF YOU ARE A RUNNER

Ditto as you age. A 78 year old runner, following back surgery, was ordered to do it daily. Preferably for life.

Monday

Healthiest Sports Drink?

Friday

Ryan Scoble could hardly breathe. His vision blurred, and his hearing was impaired. Completely disoriented, Scoble, 21, was staring down a grim but familiar diagnosis.

What began as feelings of fatigue grew into struggles breathing as time passed. In 2021, his junior year at Mercyhurst, Scoble was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy — or heart failure — just two months after his father, Steve, received the same diagnosis.

And before Scoble could fight his way back to the field, he fought for his life.

More

Thursday

The Man Who Walked Around the World

Wednesday

Great guys deserve a great trash bag

Debate: Mentally Ill Homeless People Must Be Locked Up for Public Safety

Tuesday

So stylish. Beige Unicorn Sneakers

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Monday

The Man Who Saved Nike

Major reason for Oregon Track Club’s huge membership? During one month of the year, members can shop at the Nike’s employee store in Beaverton and get a 40% discount. …There are limitations.

Tuesday

What marathon legend Eliud Kipchoge eats

Sunday

Church of the Long Run

In my Santa Clarita days, along with a mostly consistent gang of guys, we would do a 24 miler every Sunday starting at 5 am.  For about 20 years.

Book Lover

Books enjoyed in March. Favorites with astericks.

The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho
Saturday Night by Susan Orlean
Border: A Journey Around… by Erika Fatland
A Concise Book of Lying by Evelin Sullivan
Ronald Knox by Evelyn Waugh
Overnight to Many Distant Cities by Donald Barthelme
Hippie by Paulo Coelho
Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho
A Treasury of Civil War Tales by Webb Garrison
Jonathon Swift: His Life and his World by Leopold Damrosch*
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathon Swift
Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Andersonville: The last Depot by William Marvel
Reading in Bed by Brian Doyle
Under The Mountain Wall by Peter Matthiessen*
I Heard My Country Calling: A Memoir by James Webb*
The Imperial Cruise by James Bradley*

The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
-Ray Bradbury