The perfect Mile

bulldog35 wrote:

Imagine a mile race at half time of the Rose Bowl? That kind of energy could make for great racing. Santee did it halftime of the pro bowl at the coliseum. Were any of you there to witness this? Maybe you Ed W.?

Why on earth would you think that Ed Whitlock, who was presumably still living in England at the time, would have been at that football game? Is he the only person you can think of who would have been alive at the time?

And while I'm living up to my name: why are you listening to the audiobook? What happened to reading?

what happened to knowing the difference between the Rose Bowl (Collegiate game in LA) versus the Pro Bowl (Professional game heldin Hawaii)?

fooking 12 year olds

whatever happened to reading comprehension?

bulldog35 wrote:

I have been listening to the 12 disk set about Santee, Landy and Bannister ...

You need to get out more often.

Yea, that's true! You know I just got sick of flipping radio stations in my car from Kroq to Indy to 98.7 to what ever. Listening to Audio tapes is more relaxing and gives me more focus on the way to work. New music has lagged recently.

For the other poster the pro bowl was played in the coliseum back in the day. I made a reference to the Rose Bowl cause I think that would be a great half time athmosphere to put the best US milers in a race.

Some of us that are a bit old, haven't felt the need to always cling to old ways. Listening to books on tape v. the radio is an excellent use of time. Some of them are not worth it, The Perfect Mile though was great listening. It also allows for juggling multiple books. The fact the original poster has had his brain sparked by the pursuit is the point of reading.

It would be great to see a race featured along with another sporting event (what about before Indy or Daytona 500?) if only to broaden interest in the sport beyond those of us tracking the XC Championships last weekend or Ryan Hall's half.

And to the other poster, before calling out someone for not identifying Hawaii, get your facts straight. The fact that he's right doesn't matter. Even if he is 12, he thinking of promoting the sport. One thing you get from the book is the popularity of the sport in the 50's versus today.

Nice fantasy. There aren't very many major football stadiums with tracks left in them. Coliseum took its out to appease the Raiders. Rose Bowl probably had a track in it 75 years ago.

Only UW and Boise State is left. Even Princeton's Palmer Stadium, which was the scene of a great mile race during a football game in the 1930s, no longer exists.

I think it's a great idea. More like that.

UW's track may be on the chopping block. Running a mile in the late fall/early winter in Seattle would be a wet, cold and windy proposition anyway.

Puck Frinceton..... There's a real football field enclosed by a real track at the University of Pennsylvania. Franklin Field, enough said....

banked track wrote:

Nice fantasy. There aren't very many major football stadiums with tracks left in them. Coliseum took its out to appease the Raiders. Rose Bowl probably had a track in it 75 years ago.

Only UW and Boise State is left. Even Princeton's Palmer Stadium, which was the scene of a great mile race during a football game in the 1930s, no longer exists.

I also really enjoyed listening to Neal Bascomb's book. Our public library has a service that let's you download audio books. You check the audio out for a couple of weeks, and can renew it once. Transferring to another device is ok. I listen to books on my mp3 player while on long runs. Our library's service (netlibrary?) does not work with ipods. I started listening to books, and an occasional podcast while running about a year ago. I find nonfiction holds my interest better than fiction.