#tbt: Johnny (the Elder) Kelley’s Arlington home
Last week I learned that the house at 56 Palmer St. (about .3 miles from my house in […]
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#tbt: Bobbi Gibb and the (pre-) Vermont 100
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first time a woman ran the Boston Marathon. Bobbi Gibb […]
1976 Election Stickers
I was looking for old Bernie Sanders campaign stickers (I know I have one somewhere) when I came […]
#tbt – Jim Fixx Reminds You To See Your Doctor
Monday, July 20th, marks the 31st anniversary of the death of the original pop culture running guru, Jim […]
#tbt: Quit Kicking about Sitting and Kicking
Runners often decry the “sit-and-kick” race strategy. People have called it “boring”, “unethical“, “less effortful“, and even “pathetic“. The […]
#tbt – Ron Clarke, 1965
Ron Clarke, one of the best-known distance runners in the world in the 1960’s, died yesterday in Australia. […]