Beginning our 14th year and 1,200+ postings. A blog for athletes and fans of 20th century Track and Field culled from articles in sports journals of the day, original articles, book reviews, and commentaries from readers who lived and ran and coached in that era. We're equivalent to an Amer. Legion post of Track and Field but without cheap beer. You may contact us directly at irathermediate@gmail.com or write a comment below. George Brose, Courtenay, BC ed.
Yep, 2 hours 1 minute and 9 seconds, exactly 30 seconds off the record for the men's marathon.
When we contemplate Eliud Kichoge, nothing surprises us in what he does on the road, on the track, or in life. He is truly a person of distinction in the world of sport. Roger Federer may earn more money, Aaron Judge may break the home run barrier this week, and Lewis Hamilton might win a few more Gran Prix if Mercedes gets their you know what together next year. Eliud can live a somewhat monastic existence in the hills of Kenya where the air is thin, the nights are cool, and there are few things to distract him from whatever his mission may be.
His splits are beyond belief but you have to do things like that to run 26.2 miles at that pace. What pace?
I calculate roughly 4:37.4 as a per mile average. His first 10Km was 28:23, his half marathon was 59:51.
Tigist Assefa
Not to be outdone by a lot, Tigist Assefa of Ethiopia won the women's race in 2 hrs 15 min and 37 sec. The third fastest ever. But this was only her second marathon and her previous was 2 hrs 34 min and some change. She also happens to be the only woman ever to run the marathon under 2 hrs 20 min. and also break 2 min. for 800 meters. So there.
Alexandr Sorokin
Not to take anything away from these stunning performances, it was mentioned by a friend that a Russian had set the WR for 100 miles. I immediately thought it may have been run by a Russian draftee hauling ass out of the Ukraine, but it wasn't. At first it was reported that the guy had run an average of 7:10 per mile which is pretty impressive, so I did a bit of googling and fell onto the following article from Outside Magazine by Brian Metzler which indicates that the runner, not a Russian but a Lithuanian 40 year old retired kayaker named Alexandr Sorokin had set the record averaging 6:31 per mile. It was set earlier this year in Israel running on a 0.91 mile track. See link:
So you thirty somethings still have something to shoot for. Holy crap!
STOP PRESS
sorokin 198.6 mi 24hr wr sept 17-18, 2022 verona, italy
The previous 100 mile record holder Zach Bitter, ran for Stevens Point (the university not the high school). https://zachbitter.com/achievementsarly 200mi.
Problem is: it's really hard to sell tickets or TV time to this event.
And all you Floridians, batten down the hatches, it looks like you may be in for a bumpy ride. Take care and good luck.
George Brose
Sorokin later broke the 24 hr. Record, averaging 7:15, where he ran nearly 200mi.
There’s a tfn forum thread about it. Bruce Kritzler
This is a two year old story and one that I had vaguely heard about when it happened but we never mentioned it on this blog. In 1963 at the Modesto Relays, Phil Shinnick of the University of Washington broke the World Record of Igor Ter Ovanesyan in the long jump. But unfortunately the meet officials had not done a wind velocity reading and so could not file papers for ratification of Shinnick's effort. Phil's leap of 27' 4" was soon surpassed, but for a brief moment he deserved that recognition and never got it until 2020 when after much lobbying and scientific review of films of that jump the record was accepted by World Athletics. At the 2020 US Olympic Trials, Phil was handed a plaque by Mike Powell, the current record holder in the event in a brief, less than two minute presentation.
Last night watching a local sports program out of Seattle, this story was mentioned along with several others and I was fortunate to be able to copy it with my cell phone. I also found the following article on the jump, a bit of Phil's history, and the effort to restore the never recognized record to him. It reminds me a bit of the story of Blaine Lindgren who in 1964 felt he had won or at least tied Hayes Jones for the Olympic title in the 110HH. Blaine went to his grave feeling that he had been wronged. Phil too felt this way but finally gained that deserved recognition.
Here is the link to that TV news piece I saw last night.
Our humble blog did cover this story about that night many moons ago, it is near the end of this particular blog post and also notes Phil's connection to Brian Sternberg, his college roommate at the U. of Washington who also set the world record in the pole vault at that same meet. How many college roommates have both broken WR's the same day or even held WR's?
The gesture lasted barely a minute, wiping away 58 years of frustration and indignation, and making the world whole again.
On the final day of the U.S. Olympic Trials at newly renovated Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, an aging gracefully Phil Shinnick last week strode out on to the running surface in the suffocating evening heat and accepted a simple plaque from Mike Powell.
The two men shook hands, a smiling Shinnick held up the bauble and that was it.
There were no long speeches. No rush of media to surround them. No SportsCenter moment.
Yet this was a huge story that played out in front of everyone in this Oregonian track and field haven, where the headlines should have read: 78-year-old man sets world record in the long jump.
Finally.
World Athletics determined that Shinnick retroactively deserved to be recognized as the best on the planet in his event for 16 glorious months, from May 25, 1963, to September 12, 1964.
Luckily, he was still alive, cogent, a college kid again for just an instant, to see it all transpire in front of him.
"It is true," Shinnick said, "I don't give up."
Phil Shinnick's world record-holder plaque.
Phil Shinnick
Standing next to him in the 103-degree temperature at 8 p.m., nearly six full decades after the fact, was Powell, a fitting companion. Powell was the current long-jump record-holder with a leap of 29 feet and 4 1/4 inches set in 1991 and a strong Shinnick supporter, and he gladly represented the track world in making up for its shortcoming.
With Shinnick, though, they tried.
In 1963, this then University of Washington track man from Spokane, Washington, soared 27 feet and 4 inches (8.33 meters) with the perfect long jump at the Modesto Relays — three-quarters of an inch longer than the world-record holder Igor Ter-Ovanesyan from Russia and two feet longer than his personal best.
Shinnick, who was 20, felt stunned and elated over what he'd done, doubly so when Husky pole vaulter and close friend Brian Sternberg came up with his own world record of 16 feet and 7 inches in the same California meet less than an hour later. In all, five world records were set during this singular Modesto competition.
"I knew I had a good jump," Shinnick recalled in a memoir he's not published yet. "I thought maybe 25½ feet. I stood by the pit while they reeled out the steel tape. I saw 25 feet, then 26, and I began to feel giddy. When 27 came out, I almost fell over backwards."
Incredibly, officials at this prestigious track event didn't use a wind gauge to certify Shinnick's performance; instead they monitored a junior-college hurdles championship held simultaneously with the only one they had.
They made the long jumper pay for this arbitrary equipment decision, informing the now distraught UW athlete there would be no new world standard recognized because of a procedural error on their behalf."The very worst and best thing happened to me in the same day," he said.
Yet this stubborn, competitive man never once accepted that faulty decision. Shinnick wanted full credit for what he did in Modesto. He fought every athletic governing body he could to make this happen as the world continually changed around him for decades.
He did this while becoming a doctor specializing in Chinese medicines and moving to New York City. While turning himself into an Olympic athlete, an acupuncturist, a scientific writer, the founder of Athletes for Peace, a middle-aged man and a senior citizen.
He challenged this track decision after turning himself into an activist and labeled a subversive. After becoming anti-war, anti-nuclear, anti-racism, anti-tobacco, pro-Soviet, pro-Chinese and pro-Contra. After being put on the FBI watch list and jailed briefly for an alleged but never proven connection to the Patty Hearst kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army, a radical group.
This is a man who has never been afraid to take on anyone in a position of power if he felt things were unjust.
The UW initially pressed his case with a long-ago letter to United States Track and Field (USTAF). Current school president Ana Mari Cauce and Husky athletic director Jennifer Cohen followed up with added pressure.
Former Washington State University track coach John Chaplin and late ex-Husky assistant track coach Bill Roe became USTAF executives. Former UW track man Grant Birkenshire from New Zealand wrote Shinnick's appeal to the American track organization.
Sebastian Coe and John Richards assumed similar positions of influence in the international track organization. Triple jump world record-holder Willie Banks became a council member.
Each of them knew of Shinnick and his story, and sympathized with his plight.
Hugh Fraser, once a renowned Canadian sprint champion and now a powerful track administrator, was selected as the sole arbitrator of the case, which was held over Zoom video sessions in the past year. He had all of the facts recited to him and deliberated much like the American Supreme Court would.
Fraser ruled in favor of the aggrieved long jumper, who could now list all of his lifetime accomplishments without having an asterisk or question mark attached to one.
"I'm feeling better," Shinnick said. "I woke up happy."
As an older person, he probably couldn't jump a third of his world-record distance now, though he remains fit and even dunked a basketball when he was 55. Yet he always had the proper amount of energy to make as many people aware and uncomfortable over what had been done to him.
Shinnick also had plenty of backers through the years. Long jumper Ralph Boston and the late hammer thrower Harold Connolly, both Olympic gold medalists who competed in Modesto in 1963, previously testified that there was no discernible wind at the time of the jump that would have enhanced Shinnick's performance.
The meet director, the late Tom Moore, long argued that claim to be true.
Others took whatever video footage of the event remained and did computations of flags rippling in the wind, offering further proof that Shinnick deserved better than he got.
In 2003, the USTAF finally recognized Shinnick's world record, but the international authorities continued to ignore him. He was part way down the runway in being taken seriously.
This past May, World Athletics finally agreed with the former Husky and his persistent challenge. There was no more opposition to Shinnick. Once and for all, the global organization made him a consensus world record-holder from a near forgotten time.
He'd probably lost out on $100,000, which is what track organizations generally paid world-record holders back then for such an accomplishment, an amount that has grown to $1 million today. Money wasn't the issue.
$100,000.00 sounds very doubtful ed. OUTV
While Shinnick was invited to central Oregon to take his long-awaited bow standing in the record triple-digit heat, he was given no publicity by NBC, which provided television coverage of the trials. A plaque would have to do.
There is irony in that he competed in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics soon after obtaining his unrecognized record and the Japanese city is now set to host the games for the first time since.
Shinnick left Eugene knowing that the three American long jumpers who qualified for the upcoming games did so with leaps ranging from 27-1 to 27-7, which means his Modesto performance was still long enough to be Olympics worthy.
Everything, it seems, eventually goes full circle.
Or, in Shinnick's case, it finally goes the distance.
All 27 feet and 4 1/4 inches of it.
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Brian Hewson, age 89, one of Great Britain's earliest sub four minute milers has passed away. He was European 1500 champion in 1958. A very well written piece by Tim Adams of Athletics Weekly can be found at this link.
Outside the Silver Cafe, Franklin, Ohio before our
departure to the Dogwood Relays in Knoxville
This blog is twelve years old, but it's conception happened at least 40 years ago when a friendship started between three ne'er do wells, myself, Roy Mason, and Steve Price. Roy and Steve have excellent coaching credentials, I was a dabbler. Roy coached for years in Southern California at Bellflower HS and the La Mirada Meteors and possibly has one of the best male and female high school mile combinations ever with Debbie Heald 4:32 in 1972 and Bob O'Brien 4:08 also around that time.
Steve Price started with the Kettering Striders in Ohio and went on to coach at the U. of Dayton, Bowling Green State University, and after he 'retired' went on to coach at Findlay University making a 102 miles trek each way every day. He would also stop and play piano at nursing homes on his way up there from Piqua, OH. Instead of the Borscht Circuit, it was the I-75 Circuit. His teams at BG broke into the Midwest cross country dominance of the Big Ten and Notre Dame, being one of the few women's teams outside those schools to qualify for DI nationals.
Roy and Steve and I began writing to each other when Steve was coaching in Bahrain in the Middle East and I was in Zimbabwe. Our letters were forwarded to each other and that is how I initially became acquainted with Roy. Then we found that it was as much fun to take hand held cassette recorders wherever we went and record our impressions of life, at the drop of a hat. Over the years the three of us were actually together only three times, once in California, once in Montreal, and once in Ohio. The last time was 1998. I remember that date because it was the weekend before I started working full time as a mediator. We got together in Dayton and drove down to the Dogwood Relays in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Steve passed away last year after a long, long competition with cancer. He really suffered a lot but never, never complained. Somehow he was always able to raise our spirits.
Last week, Roy found one of those tapes we had exchanged. It was from 1992 at the time of Steve's 50th birthday. He had just been at Bowling Green about two years, and the program was still struggling to get off the ground. BG was in the process of completing an indoor facility which would help recruiting. Steve and family were still getting used to living in a campus community. There's not much else in Bowling Green, Ohio. So here are a few excerpts from that tape recording shared amongst friends. I'm sure all of you have had friendships over the years and I hope this helps you remember and reflect on those experiences. It's what adds depth and color to our lives and makes it worth the struggle to get through it. George Brose
Steve's words or thoughts will be highlighted
The BG indoor facility is just about to be completed.
Recruiting is a pain in the ass.
We have to go though Paid and Unpaid visits by prospective athletes. They get five paid visits to colleges which can include hotel for parents, gas and meal money. Can take as many unpaid visits as they want. If you lived in Cleveland would you take a paid visit to BG when you can get paid ones to Florida, Texas, Penn State, and two others? We wouldn't have the budget to give a kid a paid visit anyway.
George got me the book "Blue Highways" by William Least Heat Moon for my birthday and made made me a video of some tele-evangelists.
Mid American Conference MAC meet coming up soon in Kalamazoo, MI. We could be anywhere from 2nd to 7th. We were 8th last year.
Some of the kids' names rang a bell to me as I used to go on some of the trips with them. Chicago is the one I particularly remember. Sherri, Tracy, Jill Strasser, Suzanne Isco.
George stole a campaign sign from another county and put it in my yard during the election "Price for Clerk of Courts" It has caused some confusion in Bowling Green as there is no
one running here by that name.
I said something to one of the runners yesterday. "Where have you been all my life?" She answered, "Mostly unborn."
The team toilet papered my office last night. I don't know how they got in as it was locked and I was there until 8;00PM.
Conference meet went down the toilet. Sherri should have won but came in 7th. Winner Julie Rhodda 17:53 from Miami.
Not looking forward to staff meeting tomorrow . Football team doing good.
I think Urban Meyer was coaching BG then before going to Florida and then Ohio State.
Staff meeting. Two hours of going over new rules about sending a copy of grad rates to kids parents, coach and high school counselor of your recruits.
Michigan St. reps coming to test our kids' knowledge of drugs. They chose several colleges
as to do this research.
"College sports is turning into a monster. This was 1992.
My Car problems: had a rebuilt water pump and rebuilt alternator installed by the garage. Total bill was $119.00.
Ohio High school XC Jenny Brown a 14 year old freshman won in 17:15
One of my runners said, "She's just too young to appreciate it."
I've got to stop and buy a lottery ticket. It's $20 million tonight. If I win, I'll help out my family members and with what's left start a business with George and get David Rapp to manage the money. David Rapp is one of Steve's former high school runners from Kettering Striders. He didn't win, and any business that Steve and I might have started would have been doomed from the get go.
I'm meeting George in Bloomington IN for the district XC meet. The fun will be cruising back through southern Indiana and going to hear several bands in Dayton Saturday night. My sister-in-law Julie has a housewarming in Dayton near George's..
Went to Kalamazoo for MAC meet. Beautiful course in a woods, hilly muddy, deer on course. Last time I went there was as a 19 year old freshman at Miami. We got our butts kicked.
What I've learned about coaching: "No matter what the results of the other teams were last week you cannot really prepare for this week expecting them to perform the same." Only took twenty five years to learn that.
I sent this out initially to Bruce Kritizler, Bill Schnier, and David Rapp, all good friends of Steve. They
wrote back as follows:
great! thanks for sharing. You missed Urban Meyer’s 2 yr stint sucking all the $ out of utah’s athletic dept.
bg & utah do not sponsor men’s track. coincidence? doubt it heard wottle is signing golf hats at BG
Thank you George and Bill for sharing this with me.
I remember that tape recorder being omnipresent in Steve's car and the occasional interruption in conversation b/c Steve had to record something before he forgot it.
I also remember Steve's 50th birthday party as I had just turned 25 and had recently moved to Columbus to resettle refugees for a Church World Service sponsored organization called Interfaith Refugee Services of Ohio.
I also remember car trips with Steve and lottery ticket purchases that never hit it big. I would have been happy to manage his riches. Turns out, what he didn't have in dollars, he had in friends... a much more valuable currency.
Ya'll take care now and thanks again for keeping in touch.
Cheers,
Rapper
Glad the tape is getting some play among friends. Have to diminish my coaching achievement. Wish Debbie had run 4:32. Was 4:38.5. On the other hand, Bob was ready to drop his 4:08.8 to sub 4:07 when he came down violently ill before the state meet. No matter the times, it was a joy working with both as they were totally dedicated. Roy
The Boston and TCS London Marathons will both have a classification for non binary athletes next year as announced in yesterday's New York Times. Caveat, before you think of going in that category to make the bucks, there will be no prize money for non-binary runners. And there will be no gender classification other than male and female in the elite runner categories in order to conform with the rules of international sport. FYI, the New York Marathon already has a non binary classification. Boston's virtual marathon also had it and had 56 non-binary entrants and 42 finishers. We have yet to hear if the Disneyworld Marathon will follow suit putting them at risk of being shut down by Ron DeSantis.
If you are having trouble understanding this paragraph, please see below for a description of non binary and use of pronouns.
I do recall a term 'run what you brung' that was used in automobile racing in the 1960's and 70's when there were disputes as to how big an engine you could put in a race car and still be allowed to compete. I still like that.
Let me state up front that I am not opposed to a non-binary category in sport. Over the last few years I have struggled with the concept, but my grandchildren have set me straight on the terminology although I still struggle with it now and again. I think that the harshest critics in our society were they to attempt to run 26 miles 385 yards, don't ask me the metric (it's 42 and some change) they would be quickly sorted out by that distance and find some respect for anyone who attempted and succeeded in completing the race.
This is not to say that the classification and permission to allow athletes undergoing a transition in sex from male to female has been resolved. It has not.
Although racism and sexism is still rampant in our world, we have come a long way in the last 100 years to include a broader spectrum of people in our hotels, restaurants, theaters, colleges, high schools, sports teams, and even God forbid, the "White" house. We have accepted categories of sport such as Special Olympics and Para Olympics and have devoted a lot of time and energy to making those games happen.
This sexual classification may still be the biggest hurdle to overcome. We find it hard to talk publicly about what we hide in our underwear. If we flaunt it in public we can end up in jail and hopefully not be killed by our fellow inmates. What we feel in our minds we have, up until recently, had to keep secret.
If there is an aspect of this subject that I still struggle with it is the use of 'pronouns'. I feel that it is a challenge to learn a new way of speaking my native tongue.
If there is a category of 'sport' that I struggle with it is gaming. I understand that the 2024 Olympics will have gaming as a demonstration sport and go full bore in 2028. Lord have mercy.
Okay, here is a description of non binary for those of you still trying to take a great leap forward into the 21st century. This is from lgbthero.org.uk/beingnon-binary
Non-binary is an umbrella term to describe people who identify with a gender outside of the gender binary. and can be categorized under the trans umbrella term, although not all non-binary people identify as trans. The word non-binary describes a wide array of different identities which fall outside of the gender binary, and can be related to, or completely separate from male and female gender identities
What kinds of non-binary genders exist?
There are many different genders which exist outside of the gender binary. Some non-binary genders and terms include but are not limited to:
Please note that this blog is not advocating for a separate category of competition for each of these definitions. ed.
Agender – having no gender or being genderless
Androgyne – identifying somewhere in between man and woman
Bigender – having two gender identities, either at the same time or interchangeably
Demiboy – partially, but not completely, identifying as a man, boy, or masculine person
Demigender – having partial connection with one gender (male, female, or other)
Demigirl – partially, but not completely, identifying as a woman, girl, or feminine person
Enby – a slang term to refer to a non-binary person, not all non-binary people identify with this term
Genderfluid – moving between two or more gender identities at different times, in different circumstances, etc.
Genderqueer – a non-normative or queer gender, having no exclusive connection to any gender
Multigender – having more than one gender
Neutrois – neutral or null gender, similar to agender
Non-binary – an umbrella term to describe people whose gender is neither man or woman; can also be used as an individual gender identity for someone who is neither a woman nor a man, but does not identify further
Pangender- having many or all genders within one’s culture
Transfeminine or Transfem – a person assigned male at birth (AMAB) who identifies with a feminine gender, but does not necessarily identify as a woman
Transmasculine or Transmasc – a person assigned female at birth (AFAB) who identifies with a masculine gender, but does not necessarily identify as a man
Pronouns
Pronouns, in relation to gender identity, are nouns that refer to another individual in place of their name in the third-person. Traditionally, a woman would be referred to as she or her and a man would be referred to with he and him. For instance, when introducing herself, a woman might say “I use she/her pronouns.” Some, but not all, non-binary people may choose to continue using the pronouns associated with their assigned gender at birth. Other non-binary people, commonly, use they/them as their pronoun.
Okay, 'nuff said. Now let the games begin.
I had not known about the decision of the Boston and NYC marathons, but I support that decision 100%, even if it has to be eventually tweaked. The outcry about trans athletes has been deafening, primarily against any trans female competing against girls. For once I think the bigots have a point because having all the height, limb length, and latent strength has proven to be a big advantage, transforming middle-of-the-road athletes into champions. It also forces us to take a stand on (1) supporting trans people and (2) protecting women's sports. I am of the opinion that trans females have a clear advantage over sis-gender females. The only solution appears to be a separate category although the numbers are vastly short of the male and female numbers. Still, it seems to me to be the only fair and humane solution.
For those two marathons to create a separate category appears to be the only solution, and a kind solution as well. If a person objects to that decision, then they truly are a bigot and will have to deal with the fallout from that exposure.
The many definitions of binary, trans, etc. people reminds me of the 34 (?) words for snow used by Inuit people in the arctic. I concentrated on those terms, mostly understood all of them, but they still made my head swim. I will not and cannot use them in everyday conversation yet am fine with others doing so, especially if they are used correctly. Pronouns are a different story. To say "they or them" for a single person is not right because those pronouns are plural, not non-sexual. Over time words will emerge, just like Ms. took the place of Miss or Mrs. Strangely, Miss and Mrs. are returning and Ms. is diminishing in everyday conversation. Now I am really confused.
Niels Laros of the Netherlands is a new face we may soon be reading a lot more about. Canadian Running recently published a short piece about him including some of times.
He won the European U18 championships in both the 1500 and 3000 meters, and his PR's are currently 3:39.46 1500 and 7:48.25 for 3000. Even better is his 800 1:46.30 which is better than Jakob Ingebrigtson's own PR at that distance.
Thanks to Richard Mach for bringing this to our attention.
Not to be outdone by youth, I've also recently learned about Harold Marioka, a Canadian of Japanese heritage who lives in British Columbia, Canada
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Harold Marioka
Harold was born in an internment camp in Canada in 1943, making him 80 years old this year. After the war, the Canadians were not very forgiving and his family was held in the camp until April of 1949, approximately 1300 days after the surrender. When they got home they found that all their possessions and 10 acre farm had been sold and there was no compensation. A friend of the Marioka's helped them get started again with some land and they lived in a two room shack with no plumbing or electricity. There was no time to play sports as a kid, so Harold didn't attempt to get into a track meet until he was 29 in 1972. He saw he had a lot to learn after that first effort. He had some speed but couldn't hang on to the end of a 100 meter race, but the next year he came back and won the British Columbia provincial titles in 100 and 200 meters. He ran relays as well for his club and they again won provincial championships. At age 50 he had to pull out of the 200 because of some leg injury and so got into the 800 and ran 2:01.26. Not too shabby for a 50 year old. He also ran his age in seconds at age 51,
Today Harold is still active in the sport and has been the chief statistician for Masters' events in British Columbia.
The following information was culled from the article What Didn't Kill Harold Only Made Him Stronger which appeared in athleticsillustrated.com written by Christopher Kelsall.
Date of the event: MLK weekend, Jan 13, 14, 15 and 16, 2023.
·Event agenda
oThursday, January 12. Guests begin arriving at the host hotel. Hampton Inn downtown will be the host hotel. The cost is $149 a night plus tax. It's walkable distance to the event venues and UF.
The contact there is Mark McClain Director of Sales Hampton Inn & Suites Downtown Gainesville Hotel Main #: 352-240-9300 Direct: 352-240-9306 101 SE 1st Avenue * Gainesville, FL 32601
oFriday, January 13 8am-12pm- 2-3 hr kayaking trip down the Silver River in Ocala, FL
oFriday, January 13- 12pm-3pm- FTC "walking" tour of UF Campus
oFriday, January 13- 3pm-11pm- Social time at First Magnitude Brewing Company (FMB). Q & A and autograph session with Frank, Jeff, Jack and other members of the FTC
oSaturday, January 14, 8am-11am Westside Park FTC Bacon strip/Morning loop event.
oSaturday, January 14- 12pm-3pm- FTC "walking" tour of UF Campus
oSaturday, January 14- 5pm-10pm Meet and great and chat with John L. Parker, Jeff Galloway, Frank Shorter, Jack Bacheler and more Cypress and Grove Brewing Company
oSunday, January 15- 5pm-8pm- Jimmy Carnes indoor track dedication ceremony.
oMonday, January 16- guests departure
·Memorabilia
oJimmy Carnes had scrapbooks of articles he collected during the Florida Track Club’s infancy. Those will be available for everyone’s perusal. Items from the Jimmy Carnes and the Florida Track Club’s wins at the AAU National Cross Country Championships will also be on display.
oThe iconic Florida Track Club log with Jack Bacheler’s initials will be available for sale. There are two versions and both have been carefully digitized by Robert Brown of Twang Studios in Ft. Myers, FL. Input was provided by their designer, Jack Bacheler, along with John Parker, Jeff Galloway and Frank Shorter.
o World renowned artist, Margaret Tolbert, who was a member of the Florida Track Club, will create artwork for the special event. Those will be available for purchase.
oJohn L. Parker will also be there to sign copies of the Once a Runner book and other books he has written about the Florida Track Club.
Please feel free to bring your own memorabilia as well.
Questions? Feel free to text or call Ricky Quintana 352-219-8213
Wish I was on the East Coast! That would be fun to attend and just stand back and see the stars from the past!
