Category Archives: My Back Pages

My Back Pages: Running to Belchertown

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Jon Waldron

On Sunday, thousands of people walked some or all of the Boston Marathon course as part of the 2014 Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk. In fact, one of the girls on the Concord Academy Cross Country team walked, and her … Continue reading →

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Boston 1984 (Part 3 of 3)

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Jon Waldron

“It is good to live and learn.” – Cervantes, Don Quixote. Everything I wrote in the first two parts of this story, I wrote from memory, without consulting old training logs, accounts of the race, or anything else. But when … Continue reading →

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Boston 1984 (Part 2 of 3)

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Jon Waldron

Leading up to the 1984 Boston Marathon, I didn’t have enough experience to know that the worst thing you can do when you’re a couple of weeks out from a race is to start reading random articles in running magazines … Continue reading →

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Boston 1984 (Part 1 of 3)

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Jon Waldron

If nostalgia is defined as a wistful or sentimental desire to relive the past, then no, I’m not nostalgic about my first time running the Boston Marathon. At the risk of understatement, it wasn’t an easy race for me. But … Continue reading →

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From the Archives: The Dropout

Posted on March 28, 2014 by Jon Waldron

(Originally published December 17, 2008) “‘Taking [the] season off’ or ‘Work’ are the new ‘excuses’ for doing nothing…” By sheer coincidence, I read that comment on DyeStat a couple of weeks ago on the same day that I met with … Continue reading →

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Mid-Winter Stirrings

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Jon Waldron

More snow is falling in what has already been a snowy winter. That’s good news for Terry and all the other skiers who’ll enjoy frolicking in several inches of fresh powder. For the rest of us who don’t have a … Continue reading →

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Slavic Studies

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Jon Waldron

I have a tendency to over-think simple questions and ordinary social interactions. If someone asks ‘How’s it going?,’ I’m likely to give the question way more thought than it deserves and then launch into a meandering answer that leaves the … Continue reading →

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