Monthly Archives: March 2014

Watching Them Play

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Jon Waldron

At Concord Academy (where I coach), the academic calendar mandates that spring sports start in February with two weeks of preseason, followed by two weeks off for school break, followed a restart at the end of March. I’ve just survived … Continue reading →

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Bekoji

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Jon Waldron

The March issue of The Atlantic has an article about the town of Bekoji (Little Town of Champions), a farming village of ~17,000 located in the highlands of Central Ethiopia that is remarkable for producing world-class distance runners. Incredibly, runners … Continue reading →

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It Takes a Village (to set a WR)

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Jon Waldron

On Saturday morning I watched Tyler set a world record for the fastest half marathon ever run a treadmill. He accomplished the feat running on a machine set up in the front of the Marathon Sports store near the Boston … Continue reading →

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