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V 8 N. 52 Some Kids are Really Showing the Veterans a New Twist on the Sport
Youth is having its day. Mondo Duplantis in the polevault is setting the world on its ear with his elite jumping. Now the Ingebrigtsen family out of Norway is destroying the age group records in...
View ArticleV 8 N. 54 Interval Training in Hanoi with John Fer AFA All American and...
Interval Training in Hanoi Please clik on this link to see the May 23, 2015 postingdiscussing Jon Fer a former All American who was imprisoned in Hanoi during the Viet NamWar. Tonight and...
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V8 N. 56 Diane Leather, R.I.P. First Sub 5 Minute Women's Miler
Our hats are off to an unsung heroine , Diane Leather.Diane Leather (Charles) 1933-2018On May 29, 1954 only 23 days after Roger Bannister first broke the 4 minute mile, another British citizen became...
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V 8 N. 57 March 1968 # 1
MARCH 1968 (#1)This is a landmark issue because it is the first of new two issues a month format. It's pages chronicle the transition from indoor to outdoor seasons. The lead story is the AAU indoor...
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V 8 N. 58 Coach Marc Arce's Continuing , Remarkable Recovery Since His Injury...
Back on the Bike Jan. 12, 2018Almost 4 Months After His AccidentOne year ago we reported on the serious injury suffered by the University of Findlay track and cross country coach Marc Arce. We are...
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V8 N. 59 MARCH, 1968, #2
MARCH , 1968 (#2)In the three previous NCAA indoor championship meets, there have been no double winners. This year Jim Ryun and Bob Beaman turn the trick.Beaman dominates the long jump, breaking...
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V 8 N. 60 Clifton 'Butch' Sower Remembered
Butch Sower in the late 1970s(Sept. 23, 2018)A few days ago we talked about the remarkable recovery of Marc Arce, former University ofFindlay (Ohio) track and cross country coach after a devastating...
View ArticleV 8 N. 61 Three Men in Three Boxes
Three Men In Three Boxes Clik Here to read article. Sept. 28, 2018The National Post We've written about 24 hour relay runs where 8 guys on a team take turns running a mile for 24...
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V 8 N. 62 A 2018 Track and Travel on the Eastern Front by Paul O'Shea
Track and Travel On The Eastern Front By Paul O’SheaTrack and Field News, the trade journal for those of us who pay obsessive attention to athletes who run, jump and throw, offered an attractive...
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V8 N. 62 Book Review by T&FN on 1968 Olympic Trials
Book Review Clik Here by Bob Burns The Track In The Forest: The Creation Of A Legendary 1968 US Olympic Team, is being released by Chicago Review Press on October 2This book review by Ed Fox...
View ArticleV 8 N. 63 Being Old and a Runner ......and a Wonderful Memory
October 14, 2018Thanks to Walt Murphy's reminder, today is the 54 anniversary of Billy Mills' victory in Tokyo. Who of us will ever forget?Tokyo 1964 Billy MillsA few days ago I stumbled on this...
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V 8 N. 64 50 Years Ago Today (Oct 20, 2018) Dick Fosbury Showed World
Thanks to Mike Waters in Corvallis, OR, we were reminded that Dick Fosbury won the Olympic Gold at Mexico City with his revolutionary jumping style, still practiced today by nearly all the world's...
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V 8 N. 65 Earl Young, Alive and Swabbing
A few years ago while researching names and contacts of former 1960 Olympians, somebody gave me Earl Young's address and said I better contact him quickly, because he had an acute form of blood cancer...
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V8 N. 66 Brigadier Gen. Harry B. Liversedge, Olympian and Marine Corps General
Nov. 3, 2018It has been a few weeks since last posting, and I have a couple of good stories to relate, but we are rapidly approaching Nov. 11, 2018, the hundredth anniversary since the Armistice in...
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V 8 N. 67 Essay on Coaching Cross Country by Paul O'Shea
How Coach Helped His Runner Get Off the Starting LineBy Putting a Knife To Her ThroatBy Paul O’Shea You know the old adage: those who can’t play a sport, coach. As a runner, sports journalist,...
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V8 N. 68 Bits and Pieces from Air Quality to the Footlights
Our colleague and co-conspirator, Roy Mason, who writes the T&FN synopses, sent me this report on air quality in Northern California and its effect on the high school cross country season.As you...
View ArticleV 8 N. 69 Colorado Runner Article on the 50th Anniversary of First Olympic...
The following article from Colorado Runner Nov. 18, 2018 issue by Bruce Kerschner does a great job of interviewing a number of the guys who ran the first Olympic Trials marathon in Alamosa, Colorado...
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V8 N. 70 Phil Scott R.I.P.
November 24, 2018Steve and Roy and I lost a dear friend last night, Phil Scott. Phil was the epitome of a total track nut, coach, comedian, dad, husband, grandfather, and devout and generous human...
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V 8 N. 71 A Christmas Story
This came to us from David Agosta (Lancaster , OH) and Bruce Kritzler (Sea Island, GA)I'm not sure who first published it.Not a story of a child in humble beginnings but a comment on the demands our...
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V 8 N. 72 Some Idle Thoughts and Memories of Long Time Track ( Athletics) Fan
March 17 2018-03-17Some Idle Thoughts and Memories of Long Time Track ( Athletics) Fan* by Geoff Williams The Carshalton Ponds I was born in England just to the southwest of London in a town called...
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