The 2024 Cross Country season is over.
This is the first day of easy running in week 2.
good warm up
30-40 minutes of easy jogging,
cool well
It’s our 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 by David Bedford and Ian Stewart.
Jim died in 2015. History is priceless.
We really love this book.
To get 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.
The large photo is of John Treacy, who won the World XC twice (Glasgow 1978 and Limerick 1979) and also won an Olympic silver medal in the LA 1984 Marathon.
John Tracy is one of the greats, a great cross-country runner and a tenacious, insane distance runner (Moscow 1980, Los Angeles 1984, Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992).I remember meeting him one year at the Boston Marathon.
