![]() ![]() What was your first experience in running? Thanks John and to his publicist, Katie Monaghan. I had always wanted to interview John, who, I believe, I met on a couple of occasions. Parker’s writing is elegant when needed, and stark when necessary…truth can be painful. They were geeks, but they were our geeks. These guys, who could put in 120-140 miles a week, work a full day, or go to school, drink a few beers after the weekend race and go home and mow the lawn. This was American distance running in the early seventies. Fast distance running was a dream of many, but only a few could do it very, very fast. A pack of guys would start out, and as those 100 meter jogs started dropping to 75 meters, then 50 meter runs, and Shorter and Galloway would be pounding by, as exhausted runners, actually running carcasses, lined the side of the track, dreams shattered, if not altered. ![]()
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