Florida State students Paul Allen and Ann Centner show their stuff at the Run For Sickle Cell

Herb Wills Report, September 14, 2019

Youth Running

A Nearly Perfect Day

What does Keith Rowe want now?  He shot me a link to an event page for Saturday, May 18 that was entitled “Run a 5k then Help a Disabled Vet Get Past Hurricane Michael.”  I thought, maybe if I ignore it, it will go away. Isn’t it good enough that we are...

How They Train Ann Centner

Age •27 Did you compete in high school cross country or track? • I competed in cross country and track at Oconee County High School in Watkinsville, GA. Did you compete in high school cross country or track? • I competed in cross country and track at the University of...

Twelve years of Palace Saloon 5K winners, 2007 – 2018

Quite often, Gulf Winds Track Club's Palace Saloon 5K has been an epic road race. The winners have been a big part of that epic. Here are some pictures of the overall winners, men and women, for the years 2007 to 2018. That's a dozen years and two dozen...

Some Mornings

SOME MORNINGS... Some mornings are beyond description. We started our run from the Thornton Road parking area on the Greenways and headed towards Fleishmann Road. There isn't much ground fog here, but there is in the spring and in Autumn. It was thick this...

Springtime’s Best Ever

David Yon  A low of 55 degrees is predicted for Saturday morning, as of Tuesday.  Not much more than a 10 percent chance of rain on Saturday. I will take it.  I suspect I will wish it was a little bit cooler before I reach the peak of Mt. Myers just before...

Might just be a good day for a race

David Yon, Fingers crossed, I look as far as I can into the weather future for a glimpse of what the weather will be like on March 30, the day for the 2019 Springtime Tallahassee Races.  My wish is for early morning temperatures in the upper 40’s, maybe...

How They Train! Ettore Aldrovandi

Age: 57 Did you compete in high school cross country or track? No (believe it or not, I played volleyball) Did you compete in high school cross country or track? No How many years have you been running? 14, more or less Lifetime personal records 1:06:12 at...

A VIEW FROM THE TOP

This Running Life - Tornado Days Gordon Cherr,  I found myself reflecting yesterday, during my daily run. The year gone by was a miserable one insofar as my running went. I pulled something in my ITB on January 31, 2018, and when it healed two months...

This Running Life – Tornado Days

A VIEW FROM THE TOP This Running Life - Tornado Days   Gordon Cherr, I found myself reflecting yesterday, during my daily run. The year gone by was a miserable one insofar as my running went. I pulled something in my ITB on January 31, 2018, and when...

FPS by MJY

Mary Jean Yon,  I don’t tend to excel when it comes to Famous Person Sightings (FPS) but I got lucky when we traveled to Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Olympics and ran right into Meb Keflezighi. David and I were returning from an easy run along the trail in...