Month: December 2015

You know you’ve been waiting for it!  Here it is!!  Heavily weighted towards my mates.  Boldly standing at home plate, pointing to the deepest part of the park. 1.  For … Read More

The logical follow up question to yesterday’s query.  I gave you my thoughts on the primary difference between Runners Racing and Racers Racing.  In It To Win It, the line of … Read More

Ask a million runners, you’ll likely get a million answers. Ask a Real Racer and you’ll get a decidedly smaller pool of answers. “To Win!”  That’s my favorite.  “To push … Read More

Club Cross and  the Racing is Fine!  My notes follow. 59 clubs, 411 finishers.  The most important Club race of the winter.  For Nebraska.  For the Midwest.  For the good old … Read More

Lookie here now!  Santa dropped a big one on a few of you dreamers.  The  IAAF announced yesterday that their Olympic Marathon Standards have been slightly eased.  As of 12/10 … Read More

I’ve known Richard Clark Fannin for years as Elite Athlete Coordinator for our USA 15K National Championships in Jacksonville, FL.  Like most of our USATF volunteers, he does it out of his love for … Read More

I was tempted to title today “Wacky Wednesday” but figured the juxtaposition above fits fine. Old Lou is back up to his tricks out at my former dojo.  Not at … Read More

No other explanation, it had to be some anagram of Santa that would take away our  last vestige of excellence in running journalism.   I reached out  immediately to one of … Read More

Well they certainly were in benevolent spirits this  past weekend.  I’ll kick off the gifts by congratulating our mates Pete Kostelnick and Kyle Clouston for being among the luckiest on … Read More

Think what you will.  Spin it any  way you want.  Speak your truth with personal conviction, but make sure  your  position is soundly based in fact.  I’m going to tell … Read More