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Post by brucedenton on Feb 22, 2007 22:43:08 GMT -5
My sentiments exactly. I'm in Columbus, OH for the weekend and ventured out a few hours ago to run. Initially, I found one of my old routes, a bike trail along the Scioto River, closed due to hazardous conditions...OK, I can understand the city not clearing miles of bike paths I guess. So I headed back into the heart of town and spent the next six miles alternating between clear sections, slushy sections, and downright icy areas. When I got back to the hotel I mentioned to my wife how pathetic it is that homeowners and business owners didn't bother to clear their sidewalks. Now I sit back with the Times-News before bed and read your letter...perfect timing. I said to her something about how that wouldn't happen back in the Appalachian Highlands, but I guess I was wrong as your experience attests. I remember shoveling snow for money when I was a kid, we'd just knock on people's doors and ask. Anyway, I survived today better than you, no blood shed, but my groin's a little sore from all the stabilizing attempts. Stay safe out there and good job on the letter. Now sit back and wait for some idiot to respond in the Sunday paper about the risk of heart attack and spinal injuries when shoveling snow.
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Post by dan on Feb 22, 2007 22:49:29 GMT -5
i feel bad that jaron has shed blood in the name of the sport.....however, i am incredibly excited that someone has posted under the name of bruce denton, one of my all-time favorite runners.......who cares if he isn't real? how many people know who he is based off of? how many people have even heard this name before......
one of my favorite episodes is when he says to cassidy "you can sluff it off if you want to, but, by god, you'll sure as hell know when you're doing it won't you?" i love it
well- i dont know who you are, but i like you already for mere statement of your name-
DAN
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Post by brucedenton on Feb 22, 2007 23:09:04 GMT -5
"Running to him was real, the way he did it the realest thing he knew. It was all joy and woe, hard as diamond; it made him weary beyond comprehension. But it also made him free."
"The trial of miles; miles of trials."
I've read the book many times, but I don't believe I've ever heard who Bruce Denton's character is based on...do tell please. Still waiting on "Again to Carthage" the purported sequel which was supposed to come out at least two years ago and has yet to hit the shelves.
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Post by dan on Feb 22, 2007 23:27:29 GMT -5
it was the great Jack Bacheler.....he is supposedly the famed character that Denton is based on......others in the book (Liquori, Shorter, Bair, etc.) are obviously real....I also think that Kernsville, the mythical town, is based off of Gainesville.....
for more info, I'm sure all you have to do is go to LetsRun and type in Once A Runner and you will find tons of speculation....
i think Again to Carthage is a hoax......it would be hard to top the original anyway, though I WOULD be among the first to read the sequel......maybe someday we will know for sure
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Post by dan on Feb 22, 2007 23:32:52 GMT -5
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Post by frojoe23 on Feb 23, 2007 8:22:09 GMT -5
Thanks for the feedback on the letter. I get really tired of this every year. It usually will last for a couple of weeks, but last year in Frostburg there was like an entire month where nobody decided to shovel anything.
I definitely feel your sentiments about a sore groin. I find that my adductor muscles are sore for days after a run in slushy conditions.
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Post by marc on Feb 23, 2007 14:06:08 GMT -5
Jaron I agree completly. I felt a pain in my legs from running around Monday and then Tuesday it really started acting up. Most of the pain has subsided by now but when I saw the thing in the paper where you said that you hurt your soleus muscle it was kind of weird because that is what the trainers said that I strained. Again, great article. I couldn't agree anymore with you.
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Post by brucedenton on Feb 23, 2007 18:32:13 GMT -5
Thanks for the info on Bacheler, that makes sense. Yeah, Again to Carthage isn't looking too good...I have seen a guy on Let'sRun hawking a 'preliminary manuscript' to the highest bidder, but I would have serious doubts about that. Here's the link to the letter, I thought I had attached it last night, but apparently not. www.times-news.com/letters2/local_story_053111800.htmlAnd by the way, how about this in the same issue of the T-N www.times-news.com/apstorysection/images_sizedimage_053094457/resources_photoviewThese three guys decided to JOG....'because it was a nice day'?! I bet they never go JOGGING when the weather is anything less than perfect, do they. I'm sure that Ed, Steve and Glenn loved that caption. |
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Post by davetreber on Mar 11, 2007 10:10:46 GMT -5
The runners in the Times-News picture have been part of our races for years, rain, shine, sleet, snow.
They didn't write the caption. Don't know what they thought. If it were my name and face in there I'd say as long it's not on that one page of a newspaper, it's a good day.
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