The 2024 Cross Country season is over.
This is the second day of easy running in week 3.
good warm up
30-40 minutes of easy jogging,
cool well
Another holiday pick of the day The Lonesome, by Ron Clarke with Norm Harris
One of my favorite books of all time, The Lonely Breed is a collection of short stories by Ron Clarke about the most admired people.
The story that makes me cry every time I read it is that of Jim Hogan, the only Irishman to win a European marathon.
championships. I met Jim around 2006 and enjoyed some great sessions with Jim from David Bedford and Ian Stewart.
Jim died in 2015. History is priceless.
Jim Hogan won the 1966 European Athletics Championships in the marathon after withdrawing from the 10,000m and the 1964 Rome Marathon.
Hogan was the last guy to follow Abe Bikila, who was defending his Tokyo Marathon from 1960. At 23 miles, Hogan collapsed from exhaustion
The European Championships were classic marathon science.
Jim Hogan himself wrote a wonderful book. The Irishman Who Ran for England by Jim Hogan.
Jim Hogan died at the age of 81 in 2015.
We really love these two books.
To purchase this book, please check: The Lonely Breed, by Ron Clark
Other book recommendations: Homemade Olympia by Ron Dawes , Clear Heels by Murray Hallberg, , First! By Tom Jordan.
In this cover photo, Ian Stewart, Bill Rogers and Mariano Haro, all three were incredible cross country runners. and the Commonwealth Games in 1970 as well. Bill Rogers burst onto the scene in 1975, winning bronze at the World Cross Country, then three weeks later winning in Boston and setting an AR of 2:09.55. : He was also 4th in 10000m in 1972.
