The results of the Madison Turkey Trot are posted at http://www.plattsys.com/m1shell.asp?eventid=562. There is also a link through the Madison Jaycees’ web site http://www.madisonjc.com/index.shtml. It was a beautiful day! Julie and I wish you happy running and happy holidays.
Madison Turkey Trot
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The first precisely measured running tracks were built after 1850. Foot racing had become popular in England by the 17th century, when footmen would race and their masters would wager on the result. By the 19th century pedestrianism, as it was then called, had become very popular. A professional racer named Walter George set a record of 4:11.8 in 1886 that was not broken until 1915. The mile record accelerated in the 1930s, as newsreel coverage greatly popularized the sport, making stars out of milers such as Jack Lovelock of New Zealand and Glenn Cunningham of the United States, popularized by
Jack Lovelock
Glenn Cunningham
Chariots of Fire. In the 1940s Swedes Arne Andersson and Gunder Haag lowered the record to just over four minutes (4:01.4) before racing was curtailed in the combatant countries during World War II.
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I have spent the last 2 days in Madison assisting in packet pickup for the Turkey Trot in the Hammonasset State Park. Every year our numbers grow…runners and walkers have been supporting this race for 30 years, after tomorrow 31. Before I owned soundRUNNER, I would come down here on Thanksgiving morning run and catch up with people I hadn’t seen all year. We would discuss our life since the previous Turkey Trot over Red Hook, Cohen’s Bagels , and Friend’s chowder.
Good luck to all the runners and walkers…another record breaking registration…see you in the a.m. I’ll be the one cheering for you!
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Wow, I think I hear my mother’s voice “be patient.” HMMM, not so easy…I’ve never been able to contain myself.
As a runner we NEED to heed this advice or else! Do too much too soon, too fast…you know the drill. “Expediency almost always leads to the poorer choice. So take a deep breath, consider your options…make smart choices.
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Women run too. The first sub-5:00 mile was achieved by Diane Leather of Britain in the spring of 1954, 23 days after Bannister’s first sub-4:00 mile.
Tthe IAAF began recognizing women’s records for the mile in 1967, when Anne Rosemary Smith of Britain ran 4:37.0. The current women’s world record of 4:12.6 was set in 1996 by Svetlana Masterkova of Russia. I’ve embedded a clip of her gold medal performance at 1500 meters in the 1996 Olympic Games in July http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3beMZ_IseR0, just before the August 14 world record. In another edition in this series on the mile, I’ll look at the careers of Mary Decker Slaney and Florence Joyner.
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I’ll be in OS for the Saturday, 8 a.m. run. It is sure to be a wonderful morning to run…if we go 6 (or so) we can go down Maple to Great Hammock and then come back along the “Causeway.” Slow and easy of course…there’s a soundRUNNER Madison Jaycees Turkey Trot to be run next Thursday. Don’t forget to sign up at any of our soundRUNNER locations.
1088 Main Street, Branford, 203.483.8222; 762 Boston Post Road, Madison, 203.318.8190; 238 Main Street, Old Saybrook, 860.388.3800.
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If Thomas Jefferson had his way, we would be running the 1500m like the rest of the world. But the Federalists thought TJ was a Francophile, so the US remains one of a diminishing number of places where the mile is still run. I’m starting this series on the mile at the Oxford track where in 1954, a physician named Roger Bannister, between medical school and his hospital residency, first cracked a barrier, 4:00, that had withstood ten years of challenges: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEgHhijFnEU. Just 46 days later, Bannister’s record of 3:59.4 was broken by John Landy of Australia in a time of 3:57.9.
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Come visit me at our new soundRUNNER location in Old Saybrook. We are located at 238 Main Street, across from St John’s Church and near “The Kate.”
Our phone number is 860.388.3800.
Saturday run at 8 a.m. Come join me!
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As a runner our definition of fun may be different from most folks. Some of my fun runs: running in high heat and humidity, running on the trails when you are knee deep in snow (no snowshoes for this girl), running up to the Tea House at Lake Louise, taking Bob for his first run in the rain and in the snow (he was very giggly), running with the kids through Stony Creek in a torrential downpour and observing them race each other down the path and jump in mud puddles (talk about giggly). Running with Preston, Alexander and Kim…who has more fun than I do? Going out with no expectation of speed and distance…I’ve turned the page!
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A vanishingly small number of you gentle readers will remember that I wrote a very short story, At Seventeen, to describe the emotional and physical experience of passing that mile marker in a first marathon, then pushing through to the finish line. The story is built rhythmically around the song by the same name by Janis Ian http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efHOIT1ROk8, to which I hope you will listen and appreciate why I am so smug about writing things that have meaning at more than one level.
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