Updated: 7/1/05; 8:39:31 PM.
Born-Again Runner
Backgrounder, dated January 9, 2004: I'm in my 62nd year, having carried 242 to 246 pounds on my 6'1-1/2" frame for too many years. My high-school weight was 176, so I could drop up to 70 pounds, if I could. Today, I ran for the first time in years, almost three minutes--twice! I've been born again. Alleluia!
        

Saturday, June 11, 2005

REST DAY

Too much work, then too many errands, and too much heat and humidity, so didn't get my gym workout today, but hamstrings do feel ready for a long one tomorrow, yes, long, at all of two miles.

There was quite a story in today's Globe and Mail about the Cambridge Classic Mile, whereby race organizers have come with a unique challenge for milers: running a sub-4-minute mile on a retro track that replicates the conditions Roger Bannister faced some 50 years ago.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050611/MILE11/TPNational/Toronto

Honorary starter for the race tonight is Kitchener, Ont., doctor John Moule, who raced against Bannister at the 1954 British Empire Games and at 73 still jogs with a group he calls "a drinking club with a running problem."

Love that quote!
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