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V 12 N. 16 John Landy R.I.P.
February 25, 2022 JOHN MICHAEL LANDYApril 12, 1930 - February 24, 2022We lost another one of the great ones...
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V 12 N. 17 A Shoe Story by Darryl Taylor
This story comes from a former runner/coach Darryl Taylor, Long Beach State, Pacific Coast Club, and 46 years track and cross country coach at Rancho Alamitos High School in Garden Grove,...
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V 12 N. 18 Alive and Running in Ukraine
From The Guardian March 10, 2022Running is a hard habit to kick as demonstrated by some senior residents in Kyiv, Ukraine. We encourage anyone who reads this to do something in solidarity with...
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12 N. 18 News and Updates, Grant Fisher, Willie Nelson, Blind Athletes,...
Been collecting a number pieces and back burnering them. Now on the front burner.First however, a note from Richard Mach, Flint, MI...
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V 12 N. 19 Some Notes Gathered from the NCAA Meet This Past Week
March 15, 2022 First the stories are not mine, they were gathered from comments by others who were privy to them.There are three stories. Story 1 The Grand Niece of the First Woman to Break 5:00 For...
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V 12 N. 20 Newbury Park's 4x1 Mile Record
From Richard Mach:If you haven't seen this. Our narrator is another math nerd whose enthusiasm borders on hype. WMU set the collegiate record of 16:50.4 at the Drake Relays in the spring of ‘61....
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V 12 N. 21 Charlie Greene March 2, 1945 - March 14, 2022 R.I.P.
Charlie Greene passed away March 14, 2022. He was an incredibly talented sprinter from the University of Nebraska in the late 1960's. I remember him as brash and outspoken but able to back up his...
View ArticleV 12 N. 23 What the Hell is NIL?
NAME , IMAGE, LIKENESS (NIL)The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) interim policy, as of July 1, lets more than 480,000 athletes monetize their name, image, and likeness (NIL), marking a...
View ArticleV 12 N. 24 Should We/Will We Run 'Til We Die?
A friend and colleague, Bill Blewett, University of Oklahoma (1969) was one of the best walk-ons ever at that school. He is in the process of writing a book on training and it's effects both good...
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V 12 N. 25 Kirk Baptiste 1984 200 meters Silver R.I.P.
From Olympedia:Full nameKirk Renaud•BaptisteUsed nameKirk•BaptisteBorn20 June 1962 in Beaumont, Texas (USA)Died24 March 2022Measurements184 cm / 79 kgAffiliationsSanta Monica Track Club, Santa Monica...
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V 12 N. 27 Are We About to Be Treated in Our Sport to An Extraordinary Season...
This blog is more than dependent on writing coming in from our readers. Some days it's Paul O'Shea with a book review, Darryl Taylor with a moving story from the past, Bill Schnier with a long...
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V 12 N. 28 Obscenity
No bodies, no burned out tanks, no blown out apartment buildings, no posturing politicians. Still these pictures say a lot about today's world. Yuri...
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V 12 N. 29 Brian Kivlan, New York's First Sub 4 Miler, R.I.P.
Brian Kivlan 1948-2022We saw today in Walt Murphy's blog This Day in Track and Field that Brian Kivlan, former Manhattan Jasper,...
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V 12 N. 30 Boston Is Coming in Five Days (Monday April 18) and Ned Price Will...
After a three year hiatus Boston will be run again on Patriots' Day April 18, 2022.Our colleague Ned Price (Univ. of Chicago 1960 something) lives a few streets from the 7.9 mile mark. He likes to...
View ArticleV 12 N. 31 A Response to Scoring Dual Meets With 5-3-1 or 3-2-1 Systems
I'm sure this response from Gary Andrus on scoring dual track meets with 5-3-1 or 3-2-1 will enlighten many of our readers and stir up the cobwebs in the brains of the rest. Ned, do you remember...
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V 12 N. 32 First Pictures in from Boston 2022
As promised, from Ned Price, here are those pictures from Ned Price today at the 7.9 mile mark. Looks like great weather as promised.First results :Men...
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V 12 N. 33 Kenny Moore Died Yesterday R.I.P.
May 5, 2022I saw the brief note of Kenny Moore's death in Walt Murphy's This Day in Track and Field yesterday. It struck hard, because the world is now without one of it's really wonderful...
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V 12 N. 34 When is Too Much, Too Much?
Lately I've been having online conversations with old running friends, sometimes with myself, occasionally God forbid on Facebook. The theme has generally been, what is too much training? That...
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V 12 N. 35 Children Running: Can v. Should - Russ Ebbets
Our previous post dealt a bit with an incident of a six year old child running a marathon. It inspired Russ Ebbets to send us this piece he wrote recently. Children Running: Can v. Shouldby Russ...
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V 12 N. 36 'Destination Runs' by Russ Ebbets
Here is Russ Ebbet's second article on childhood running that we think you might enjoy and see some ways of making it fun for your kids and other people's kids. It is sport's A Child's Garden of...
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