Miles 17-20 Look Hard

Here’s the course map for the Marine Corps Marathon.  What’s that pointing at the Capitol Building?:

(thanks to fellow Idiot Brianna Oke for pointing this out)

Mo Farah runs from …me?

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Glove Puppet Boot Camp!

Last night was the final session of Glove Puppet Boot Camp at The Puppet Showplace Theater in Brookline.

Brad Shur, the artist in residence at the theater led us through four weeks of digital gymnastics and helped us put together short pieces that used what we learned.

And here they are!:

The Runner’s Closet

If you spend much time running, you accumulate a lot of race shirts and other ephemera. Some runners make quilts, but I stitched together this video.  How many do you recognize?

Time for a snack

What more is there to say?

(Long Distance Log, May 1964)

If you had to choose one… (Poll)

Just one more interval…

It’s true, you know:

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(“Long Distance Log”, February 1956)

Ray Charbonneau, World Record Holder

A record that will hopefully never be broken:

World Record holder Ray Charbonneau

Track vs. Baseball (Old jokes are best)

This one’s in honor of Opening Day:

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This is America.  In the real world, you go out for track once you’ve proven you can’t hit.

(“Long Distance Log”, February 1956)

Hope for our future

“Everybody knows”, huh?  So there’s still hope for those of us who’s college days really ARE long forgotten?:

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(“Long Distance Log”, February, 1956)