But there was a non-Olympic marathon in Greece in 1961 that he won barefoot. I don't know this by heart, but by wikipedia.
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But there was a non-Olympic marathon in Greece in 1961 that he won barefoot. I don't know this by heart, but by wikipedia.
Oh God... I'm been turning senile, srsly. Yes.... ROME!
Not kidding, I've been going from one brain fart to the next lately.
Yes, the guy really said that, but I guess he said 'Rome', doi.... He was like 70 yrs old and fit as I was in my 20s,and I'm talking mental fitness here.
Oooooohhhh... Or maybe that was it. I really don't know anymore. When I play the scene over in my leaky memory, I can hear him saying 'Athen, Griechenland, neunzehn hundert ein und sechzig', which is Athens, Greece, 1961'. But I was thinking of the Olympics anyway, double doi.
On one of the Peachtree road races that Barefoot TJ and I ran awhile back there were a couple young guys struggling up a long draggy hill... I could hear them insulting each other as they made their way up... when they saw TJ cruising along as we passed them they both looked down at her feet at the same time then one said to the other "she so owns you" hehe I was chuckling big time.
Yesterday I got "You must be crazy running in those feet" - damn it, of course, should've put my other feet on!
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Lol, I figured I'd best put some subtitles on there. Our accent can be kind of broad sometimes. And thank you, I'm glad you liked it.
at the sauna last week, there was a group of young (noisy, ill-behaved) Irish guys. I only know they were Irish because I asked. I could hardly tell that they were speaking English except for the the occassional word. Later in the evening, they were hanging around the outdoor natural pond, which is really nice for jumping in after a hot sauna round, but it's very ... natural, and looks it. One of the kids asked me, with much rolling of the tongue: 'My friend, is the water clean?' I answered, in a faux leprechaun Irish, 'I'd say it's grrreen'. He said, 'Yes, but will you not get any diseases from it?'. And I faked more Irish, 'You're supposed to swim in it, friend, not drink it', then plunged into the pond
I wandered around Ireland for about 4 months many years ago and found that I could travel from one village, over a mountain to the next and completely lose the thread of how the language worked. I knew it was English but needed a pint or two to relax enough to understand it again. I'd go visit again and bring my kids along if I had a bit extra to invest. We could look up the roots of my family who are from Castlebar. Do they still have Youth Hostels (An Oige) or did something bad happen to them?
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Lol, great stories!! I know what you mean about the accent out there. The accent in Mayo can be tough going. I struggle with it and I'm only from about 150 mile away.
Re the youth hostels, I wouldn't know pal. It's rare I'm over that part of the world these days. Sorry.
I passed a couple last summer who were walking. The guy said to me in a rather loud/startled voice"Why the *uck are you running barefeet"? I answered "Cause I'm to *ucking fat to fly, and it's too far to walk"!
Running down the street a couple of weeks I heard one my favourite comments. I could hear a woman telling(rather loudly) her daughter to get in the house and put some shoes on or she would catch her death....it was at this point I ran past and the girl just pointed at me at shouted back "But he hasn't got any shoes on". After a few seconds of silence I just heard an irritated "Just get in the house" from the woman.
I was running in VFFs yesterday, tending a blister, and a woman out walking quipped: " Well it's good to see you with SOME kind of cover on your feet."
I've clearly perturbed her in the past.
I've clearly perturbed her in the past
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Running on the boardwalk in rehoboth this weekend, iwas behind this other runner for a while. At the end we stopped for water and he looked at me and asked "how do you do you do this barefoot?" i responded training. Someone sitting on a bench asks "Why?' iresponded that i am too cheap to buy shoes. the shod runner busted up laughing.
Although not quite the same - I wasn't running - Yesterday I volunteered at a nature reserve island in BDA where we had to move wheelbarrow loads of sand 1/4 mile uphill over a sandy/gravelly/grassy trail. After a while my boat anchors started to rub me the wrong way - so I shucked them off and did the rest of my loads barefoot. That prompted comments of "cool - old school man, "hard core dude" and "way to go bro". Not one negative comment. A couple of ladies asked me about barefoot running. Shown is the area adjacent to the dock we had to move the sand from. Cool huh? (By the way - can I count this as miles toward my running total?)
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Running home tonight I was passed by a late-teenage kid on his bike who skidded to a stop a few yards beyond me, he turned and greeted me with "That's gangsta man!" accompanied by a high 5 as I passed!
Running on the boardwalk in rehoboth this weekend... .
That boardwalk is neat to run on, especially early in the A.M. Have you run up to Gordon's Pond / Henelopen State Park? There's a lovely trail through the wildlife refuge area. I was nearly eaten alive by horse flies there last summer. I must have killed 200 as I swatted them off my head. I ran for my life!
Yes, I have run to Gordon Pond and back. During the off season we take our dogs to that trail in Gordons Pond. If you continue past the bird watch tower, you cross the Great Dune and end up in Lewes. I want to run it one day and return to Rehoboth on the bike path. This should make a nice 20 miler+ run. It will need to wait till the fall when my training needs those kinds of miles.
I don't know that area well. Is it that many miles if you start out from Gordon's Pond? Or is it that the bike path is a loop that takes you farther inland, along the canal or some such? I would love to do that run in the fall after the biters are gone.
It is that far starting at my condo, running to Gordons pond, across the great dune, through cape henolooen state park to Lewes, and returning to my condo on the bike path. you would get similar milage starting in Gordon Pond and returning to Gordon Pond using the bike path. it would be less than 10 if you just did the great dune trail as an out and back.
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