Category Archives: Pro Runners

The World Comes to Kampala

Posted on March 24, 2017 by Jon Waldron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8r4ArQ3WyY Geoffrey Kamworor winning the Senior Mens race at the IAAF World XC Championships in 2015. On Sunday March 26th, Uganda hosts the 41st IAAF World Cross Country Championships at the Kololo Independence Grounds in the capital city of Kampala. … Continue reading →

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Retirement is for Kids

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Jon Waldron

A couple of athletics stories caught my eye over the last couple of weeks, bookends for a topic I’ve thought about a lot lately.

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Book Review: How Bad Do You Want It?

Posted on September 2, 2016 by Jon Waldron

“Endurance athletes, by definition, endure. They endure long hours of training, the privations of a monastic lifestyle, and all manner of aches and pains. But what endurance athletes must endure above all is not actual effort but perception of effort. … Continue reading →

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Rio 2016: American Distance Revival

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Jon Waldron

  “Are you f***ing kidding me?!!”                                           – Matt Centrowitz Sr.

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Why it Matters

Posted on July 11, 2016 by Jon Waldron

Brenda Martinez edges out Amanda Eccleston for 3rd in the women’s 1500m final. “I was thinking, no matter what I have to get to the finish line […] Over the last two hurdles I thought, I’m getting over this and … Continue reading →

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Above the Fray

Posted on July 8, 2016 by Jon Waldron

“Was he of this earth? Could it really be this much of a joke to him, running this pace without a care in the world?” – John L. Parker, Once a Runner Another evening in Eugene, and another half dozen … Continue reading →

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The Olympic Trials – Day 3

Posted on July 4, 2016 by Jon Waldron

Three days in, The U.S. Olympic Track and Feld Trials is reminding us all why it’s the most exciting, dramatic, and poignant track event of the quadrennium. Unlike the Olympics and World Championships, which are all about medal counts and … Continue reading →

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Thoroughbreds

Posted on June 3, 2016 by Jon Waldron

The pack in the “Adro” mile, the night’s final event, hitting 200m. As I was heading out the door this morning on my way to work, my wife stopped me at the threshold with a question that sounded accusatory. “Where … Continue reading →

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In the Shadow of Greatness

Posted on May 16, 2016 by Jon Waldron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS80aXRYLRM   I wonder if as he went through the familiar pre-race motions in Lane 1, Dentarus Locke felt an incongruous shiver in the warm Caribbean night. I wonder if he reflected at all on the journey that had brought … Continue reading →

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Penn Relays and the Wider World

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Jon Waldron

On Monday afternoons it’s always a challenge to get the kids to focus. The first Monday is May is especially rough. The school as a whole is beginning its final sprint to graduation in less than four weeks, and kids … Continue reading →

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