Bob Hodge is considered one of my favourite runners and writers. You probably have not learn this high-quality marathoner’s writing, go now to http://bobhodge.us/
Bob shall be within the stands at Hayward Area 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 Area– nonetheless received that new automobile scent.
Invoice Bowerman’s picture seems to be 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.”
Preview 2024
This shall 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 longer term.
I shall be reporting, and coloration 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 go by USATF on two events, so reasonably than a fly on the wall, I shall be “as heard within the stands or on the Wild Duck institution.” I may also 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 document of doing. I feel 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 attempt to put that apart for now in order to not get slowed down a lot and simply be capable of take pleasure in and soak up all that I see and listen to on a purely aggressive spirit degree and bear in mind and be tantalized by the human performances and high three supplied you bought the factors and so on. https://worldathletics.org/world-rankings/10000m/males?regionType=world&web page=1&rankDate=2024-06-04&limitByCountry=4
My outdated foremost monitor occasion, the ten,000 meters, shall be run on Friday night time, June twenty first, and would be the first remaining of those trials. With an Olympic Commonplace of 27:00https://olympics.com/en/information/athletics-track-combined-events-at-paris-2024-the-entry-standards
A time that solely 5 Individuals have ever run:https://trackandfieldnews.com/tfn-lists/u-s-all-time-list-men/#10K and solely three present athletes at these trials have thus far obtained.
Definitely, 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 ought to 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 residence 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, shall be held on Saturday, June twenty second. This yr’s run shall be devoted to the one and solely Mike Fanelli, who handed away final yr, leaving an enormous void and marking an enormous loss for the athletics and long-distance operating neighborhood.
Mike’s dedication, information, and promotion of the historical past of our sport along with his distinctive library and assortment of memorabilia dubbed the “Observe & Area Storage,” which I as soon as had a chance to go to —are sorely missed.
The “Brewnelli” will start at 8:30 @ the Vacation Inn Specific on Franklin.
Extra to come back…
“The longer term ain’t what it was.”
Laughing:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WyxKHIpnFk8
(Editor’s notice: considered one of my favourite images of Bob Hodge, with the late Dick Quax, duking it out, outdated type, at NIKE OTC Marathon)
