Bob Hodge is one among my favourite runners and writers. When you have not learn this high-quality marathoner’s writing, go now to http://bobhodge.us/
Bob can be within the stands at Hayward Subject and the Wild Duck Cafe, getting in some good vibes and good beer and maybe writing a number of columns for RunBlogRun on his journey from June 20 to June 30, 2024, in Eugene, Oregon.
Eugene OR Hayward Subject– nonetheless received that new automobile odor.
Invoice Bowerman’s picture appears to be like like a cross between an FBI Agent within the Nineteen Forties and Leonard Cohen.
“Miles of Trials” “I heard time’s winged chariot hurrying close to.”
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This can be my ninth journey to Eugene, the primary time as a 21-year-old hobo vacationer in 1977 and the final as an Uber fan on the 2021 trials. I’m again once more, making the current the previous and the long run.
I can be reporting, and colour commentating for RunBlogRun as Foghorn Leghorn is a window to the trials. I hope to be a talisman for each athlete. I want them Godspeed.
I used to be turned down for a media move by USATF on two events, so reasonably than a fly on the wall, I can be “as heard within the stands or on the Wild Duck institution.” I will even write an extended abstract of the ten-day ordeal for the “Just like the Wind” print publication within the UK.
I don’t imply to be tendentious, however I’m making an attempt to advertise our sport, one thing USATF (sponsored by Nike Corp) has a really poor file of doing. I believe any semi-legit media group ought to get credentials.
Foghorn —“Go, I say go away, boy, ya trouble me.”
I’ve many reservations about our sport of athletics however I’ll try to put that apart for now in order to not get slowed down a lot and simply be capable to get pleasure from and absorb all that I see and listen to on a purely aggressive spirit stage and bear in mind and be tantalized by the human performances and high three offered you bought the factors and many others. https://worldathletics.org/world-rankings/10000m/males?regionType=world&web page=1&rankDate=2024-06-04&limitByCountry=4
My outdated fundamental monitor occasion, the ten,000 meters, can be run on Friday evening, June twenty first, and would be the first closing of those trials. With an Olympic Customary of 27:00https://olympics.com/en/information/athletics-track-combined-events-at-paris-2024-the-entry-standards
A time that solely 5 People have ever run:https://trackandfieldnews.com/tfn-lists/u-s-all-time-list-men/#10K and solely three present athletes at these trials have to this point obtained.
Actually, World Athletics and the Diamond Leaguers have marginalized the 10K as an occasion, so there are fewer alternatives to run it in a world-class meet.
Maybe the Olympic race must be restricted to athletes who’ve run the final 400m of a 10K in 52 seconds… Foghorn doesn’t play that both.
Earlier than I sit myself down in my bougie seat within the still-feeling new Hayward to take all of it in, I’ve to get there from my dwelling in Clinton, MA, to my AB&B transformed storage blocks from the venue. Want me luck.
As I become older and befuddled, it may be a problem—however hey, Foghorn’s chill.
The loosely organized enjoyable run, previously Hootie 5K, can be held on Saturday, June twenty second. This 12 months’s run can be devoted to the one and solely Mike Fanelli, who handed away final 12 months, leaving an enormous void and marking an enormous loss for the athletics and long-distance working neighborhood.
Mike’s dedication, information, and promotion of the historical past of our sport together with his distinctive library and assortment of memorabilia dubbed the “Monitor & Subject Storage,” which I as soon as had a possibility to go to —are sorely missed.
The “Brewnelli” will start at 8:30 @ the Vacation Inn Categorical on Franklin.
Extra to come back…
“The longer term ain’t what it was once.”
Laughing:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WyxKHIpnFk8
(Editor’s be aware: one among my favourite images of Bob Hodge, with the late Dick Quax, duking it out, outdated fashion, at NIKE OTC Marathon)
