WhatDoYouThinkOfWhenYouRun

The Montgomery County Road Runners Club (http://www.mcrrc.org/ = MCRRC) is a wildly successful volunteer-based group that organizes races, training programs, clinics, parties, and a variety of other services for area walkers, joggers, sprinters, and distance runners. It all started in 1978. The best things in life are like that: they begin small and unpretentious, then grow naturally.

This year, in a wise move, the MCRRC has gathered more than a hundred of the most memorable articles from the Club newsletter/magazine (The Rundown) together and published them as a book. It's called What Do You Think of When You Run? and is simply delightful, a stew of advice, analysis, and anecdote that cuts across the widest spectrum of interest. I particularly enjoy the profiles of people whom I've met during my rambles along the trails. Sam Pizzigati http://www.cipa-apex.org/greedandgood/Author.html is a noteworthy author of these.

My only complaint: there's not enough poetry. Not any poetry, in fact. Maybe in another 25 years, at the next MCRRC quarter-century anniversary ...

(see also JogLogFog (9 Jun 2002), JogLogFog4 (20 Apr 2003), FadingTraces (16 Apr 2004), RockCreekValleyTrail (30 Apr 2004), BigAndStrong (27 Jul 2004), FacePlant (9 Aug 2004), ... )

TopicLiterature - TopicRunning - TopicRecreation - Datetag20040827

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