Cat Bird Seat By David Yon It was the first time I ever had heard of little guys in tuxedos standing along a race course cheering for runners. But sure enough, as the runners crested hill number 200, there they were standing in a line. They turned their heads and...
On a 50 degree morning March 20, Tim Simpkins demonstrated he is still the dominant masters runner around, taking first place in the 1999 Rails to Trails 5K with a time of 16:14.The flat out and back course was new and started at the softball complex around the 3 mile...
It is dangerous to have sports heroes these days. But as I watched Haile Gebrselassie win the 10,000 meter gold medal at the 1996 Olympics and then saw the love between him and his fellow Ethiopians, I just had to believe that this is someone really worth cheering...
February Cat Bird Seat By David Yon Truly amazing, I would say. Despite the fact that the new Marathon course wound through dozens of neighborhoods and crossed what seemed like thousands of streets, almost every corner had a smiling race volunteer directing runners or...
January Cat Bird Seat By David Yon Running 50 miles gives one a long time to think. As the quadriceps muscle tissue is ground from sinew to pulp by the thousands or millions of foot strikes on pavement, there is plenty of time to look around and observe just what a...
