CRY! THE BELOVED COUNTRY Gordon Cherr, I grew up in northern New Jersey. It was normal to me, living on a strip of asphalt and concrete that seemed to stretch from Washington, D.C. to Hartford, Connecticut, without interruption. I grew up running there...
From the Garden of Eden to the Dead Sea: Torreya 25K/50K, 2010 Gordon Cherr, Back in the day, as the old timers like to say, the now long deceased E. E. Callaway of Bristol, Florida, used to write letters to the local newspapers and tell anyone who would...
Some Things I Learned While Running Gordon Cherr, No one asked me, but: 1. Nesting mockingbirds are extremely territorial and are talented at dive bombing the top of your head. 2. On very cold mornings a third sock can save your “skin”, guys....
A BAD CASE OF THE RUNS Gordon Cherr, Ok, I stole that, but it was too good to pass up. It is the wonderful title of a blog authored by an ultra running acquaintance of mine from the Chicagoland area, Paige Troelstrup. But it was perfect for what I was...
A SHORT COURSE IN MIRACLES Gordon Cherr, Quenton Cassidy, author John Parker’s protagonist in Once A Runner and then again in the more recent but equally spellbinding Again To Carthage, returns to north Florida to regain an old chapter in his...
ON GOING LONG, WESTERN STATES, AND THE GREENWAYS NEVER LIE. Gordon Cherr, “We live in an ‘instant’ society, with instant fast food, instant diets, instant Internet, instant cell phones, pagers, email and 24 hour news. That outlook...
