Did Bill Rodgers/Bob Hodge/GBTC use track spikes on track workout days when they ran their longer intervals (2k, 1600, 3200 repeats)? Anyone know? Thanks.
Did Bill Rodgers/Bob Hodge/GBTC use track spikes on track workout days when they ran their longer intervals (2k, 1600, 3200 repeats)? Anyone know? Thanks.
On a regular basis, I have no clue, but I do have a Runner's World from 1983 or 1984 with a shot of BR & GM doing a track workout indoors and they were both in flats.
Not that I ever saw. Except maybe to try a new pair to make sure there would be no fit problems.
Tom
Definitely wore spikes for selected workouts when preparing for track races.
How the heck do you know aht!? ...sorry, I just had to say that!
Just a side note, ASICS wanted to keep Rodger's spike shoes that he set the world record 25k and 30k on track in (the red Spartan) but couldn't locate where they were. They are (at least were) desplaied at the Bill Rodgers' store in Boston.
The 2 posters before you are the well known run (read among those in that rarified air place) that would've been doing the workouts with BR at the time. They are like EF Hutton; when they speak to a topic, just listen.
Boston26 wrote:
The 2 posters before you are the well known run (read among those in that rarified air place) that would've been doing the workouts with BR at the time. They are like EF Hutton; when they speak to a topic, just listen.
Nobby is well known in that rarified space you speak of, and knows all of the players who have posted on this thread.
If you were Smith Barney, you would have known this because you would have asked.
Now Nobby and spikes in the same thought reminds me that in Freshman year of college 1967 the school provided us with sensible American cross-country racing shoes that were black with 6 or 8 rubber disks, or nubs, protruding from the sole. The shoes were commonly called Nobbys or maybe Nobbies. So now the common question of that season is echoing in my head, "You gonna wear your Nobbys or flats?"
The next year we got good Japanese shoes, Onitsuka. Supplied by a newly-arrived-from-California Jeff Johnson who I had met at a ten mile road race early that September on my way to matriculate.
Anyone under thirty know what next happened with running shoes?
Tom
Tom, are you working on a book? I love the Boston Marathon book; it's a great resource and beuatifully written. How about an updated version?
Since you are part of the troup, I'll eat my words and go sit in the corner. Thanks.
Boston26:
Sorry, I just had to throw that joke... Yes, I know Hodgie-san, I know Bill and I know coach Squires...and I know Malmo-san as well now! Knowing coach Squires, I knew that GBTC gang would have worn spikes for race simulating workouts...we we did at the Nakamura school as well. Certainly not all the track workouts or faster workouts, but some of them.
Tom:
I did NOT know about Nobbies! Now every time you run in those spikeless XC spike shoes, you can think of stepping all over me!
boston26 wrote:
Since you are part of the troup, I'll eat my words and go sit in the corner. Thanks.
This "troup" is inclusive. No need for the corner, c'mon and join in!
thanks. i always enjoy your posts of past race reults. i wasn't kidding about the rarified air. you guys were heros to the recreational group of us that watched in awe.
Nobby wrote:
desplaied
Ouch.
Dukerdog:
Man, I thought I wrote something obsene that would be sensored! Okay, "displaied"...or should it be "displayed"?
You know what Japanese do for errection? They vote!
Nobby, I thought you'd like
Those big pink birds:
http://www.engrish.com/detail.php?imagename=framingo.jpg&category=Buildings&date=2005-05-20
"Manny, look at the pelican fly -- come on, pelican!"
There was this Japanese restaurant at by the airport near where I went to school called "Flight Deck". Every time this cute innocent Japanese girl suggested to go there, boys laughed... Wonder why...???
Nobby wrote:
You know what Japanese do for errection? They vote!
Reminds me of that famous old picture taken in Japan during the occupation. MacArthur was running for president and was well-liked by many Japanese. The picture shows his motorcade passing through Tokyo (I think), with a Japanese woman at the side of the road holding up a large placard that says, "MacArthur, We Play for Your Erection."
malmo wrote:
Nobby, I thought you'd like
http://www.engrish.com
Believe it or not, I once had lunch at the Woody House restaurant. I think it was on Shikoku. Food wasn't bad.
