Bill Lott gets to sleep before BOT

Breakfast on The Track – 2007 David Yon, Fred’s pictures at: http://picasaweb.google.com/Freddecka/Breakfast7/Somewhere in the middle of the night Volunteer Extraordinaire, Bill Lott woke to the sound of thunder and flash of lightening and heard the down...

“Running” a race

On Running a Race  By Lisa Unger,  Running a race has taken on whole new meaning as I begin planning my second year as Race Director of the Women’s Distance Festival. Nine years ago, running a race meant huffing and puffing and hoping to make it to the finish line....

Mileage Matters

 Gary Griffin I’ve always considered myself a fairly high mileage guy, at least for the size of the pond that I swim in. Here in Tallahassee, if you’re doing 50-60 miles a week you’re gonna be in the top few percent of the locals who lace ‘em up regularly. I ran my...

On your marks

Yell “On Your Marks” and They Will Come David Yon, Photo by Fred Deckert Keep in mind that you can go to a meet at Mike Long Track for the FSU National Champion team and see fewer than a dozen or so spectators who are not either participants on one of the...

Prefontaine 98 tortuous, but sweatshirts are cool!

By David Yon I know of no greater torture per stride than this race. Up and down berms, though sand, under branches, over branches and through limbs. You get to scramble up and down hills, around corners and across dirt roads. The only thing you won’t find is...