This week I’m recalling some of my more memorable birthdays so when I noticed that Olympian Jeff Galloway was giving out some running tips on Facebook, it brought back my 50th.
I began running as an exercise that I could take on the road, but because I’m obsessive, it soon escalated into racing.
Unfortunately, though, unless you can run a 10K in under 40 minutes, you’re just considered a jogger.
Not wanting to be “no Jogger,” and with my 50th birthday looming, I hired a world-class runner to coach me.
His name was Thom Hunt, and with his coaching and a lot of hard work on my 50th birthday I ran a 38:40 on a hilly course in Santa Rosa California. (Seea photo of Thom above, running for the USA)
Not only would it be fun to see family and friends back in my hometown, but I’d also get to run the race with my nephew Jamie Boychuk.
Back in those days though, he was just a high school kid running track, not a railway. (pictured on top with me thirty years ago at the race in Winnipeg and just below it, a recent photo of us at his home in Jacksonville.)
Wow, after having read all of Jeff’s books, I was very excited about getting to run in an actual race with him. (see just above)
Sure enough, at about the 2-mile marker, I spotted my Nephew, and as I slowly went by him, we just nodded at each other.
There was no way I was going to flinch by looking around, so instead, I just picked up my pace.
However, expecting Jamie to blow by me any second, I dug down deep and hit it. (pictured just above)
However, when I added, “Jeff was probably dogging it,” Thom said, “Well, that’s his story, yours is, you beat him.”
The line in the old song, “Summertime”, best explains how it all still works.“Your Daddy’s rich and your Mama’s good lookin’, so hush little baby, don’t you cry.”
I understand that back in the homeland, Trudeau is trying to make recreational marijuana legal by October in honor of my birthday. Hell, what’s the rush Dude, I don’t even partake.
I was just reading that if you want to rent a two-bedroom house in California, you need to make at least $30.92 an hour. In Florida, it takes $20.68 an hour, but if you consider living in Alabama, you can slide by on $13.72 an hour. Go Tide!
The only way to be right is by not being afraid to be wrong.
When more folks were afraid of the police, fewer died.
My new dream is to become as attractive as all the African, Russian, and Filipino women who hit me up on Facebook already say I am.
I hear that Kim Jong Un wants McDonald’s built right next to the Trump Tower in North Korea.
We’re all racist and prejudiced about something. The f#cking liberals, f#cking conservatives, fucking socialists, f#cking gays, f#cking rich people, f#cking welfare people, f#cking mouthy athletes, f#cking musicians, f#cking politicians, f#cking salespeople, f#cking jocks, f#cking bosses, f#cking staff, f#cking women, f#cking men, f#cking cops, f#cking post office, f#cking bums, f#cking DMV, and oh yeah, the f#cking French.
Just guessing here, but I rather doubt that it was a standing president who decided that there should be a term limit for presidents but not for Congress?
White men may not know how to jump, but they sure know how to play soccer.
Have you ever heard of a radio market where the sales department led the station into battle?
I wonder what Chuck Berry spent all that money on that he didn’t pay the musicians?
Being boring on the radio has a longer shelf life than obnoxious does.
The real purpose of Billboards is to piss off the other radio stations in town and guarantee that the sales force doesn’t have to hear, “Never heard of ya.”
How come in movies, they always leave the car door open; women fall down while running away, and the people trying to escape some killer always go up?
Who was it, and when was it decided that it would be ok for employees to take a personal call while customers were waiting in line?
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George, its funny: The only warrior sales manager (Metromedia Radio, even though he rose to the level of C.E.O., first with Infinity, then Westinghouse, then briefly at C.B.S) that comes to mind, is Mel Karmazin. His weapon of choice was talent: Howard Stern. But while Karmazin is a leader, the only warrior programmer he acquired of any outstanding merit was the beloved and feared Ron Chapman at KVIL. I think to Mel, looking in from the outside, programming personnel were interchangeable. I don’t think Karmazin ever really cared about being number one in ratings, only billing.
Doug Thompson: All I can say George is “Pretty In Pink”. (Running On Empty)
Geo: One must be fast enough to pull it off, Dougie. 🙂