email March 11, 2009)
Hello Bill,
Glad you are feeling better. Eve is doing fine. Even
though she was a little uncomfortable that night she still did a 2 hour run on
Sunday. The French Broad Dash and Squat seemed to be the worst of
it. I recall a similar experience during a 15k training run many years
ago that became a legend of Norwegian folk lore. In fact this is how the
term "brownfield" was coined as the site of an
ecological/environmental clean-up in progress. To say I merely darkened
the forest that day is an understatement of obscene proportions.
Yes... I saw that about Charlie. Isn't that
awesome!!! Charles was at the ATC meeting on Monday night, while you
were home playing your flute and drums. It was not even mentioned during
the panel discussion about his honorable mention by Running Times.
Charles was not on the panel, though he should have been. He did have a
chance to answer a couple of questions that were directed his way from Rick
Taylor. What a charming, humble man he is! Charles is also a
vegetarian and he cites his improved health and sharpened mental alertness
since making the transition several years ago. (Warning: Rant about to
start), In spite of the meat packing industry funded research recently released
by Harvard University, people who have switched to a vegetarian diet,
continue to report the same conclusions as Charles. Our experience has
been similar. The Harvard Diet and Nutrition Center is obviously
staffed by a bunch of prostitutes who will get on their knees for anyone with
a blank check in hand. I cannot believe the bullshit they recently
published regarding the consumption red meat versus a vegetarian
diet. They even had the testicular fortitude to state that the
brains of vegetarians shrink due to dietary causes. Too bad these
dumbasses never heard of Albert Einstein since his vegetarian habits were
obviously the reason for his mental malaise. You have to wonder if some
of these researchers keep "do-me high heels" in their lockers, that
they slip on when preparing to write their papers. (Ok, rant
done.)
Bottom line: Charles Dotson is an icon for the running community
of Asheville, if not the entire state of NC.
As for my standing nationally; I have some bad-az
competition. Doug Goodhue can knock out a 38 min 10k along with his 18
min 5K. And Doug is in an age-grade ahead of me!! Doug is
awesome, no doubt about that. In the 60-64 group you have guys doing
17 min 5K's and 36 min 10's. Of course Ron Wells did his 5K at Carlsbad
which always gathers the best runners in the country for the Carlsbad
5000. Carlsbad is a pancake flat course, but it still
has two 180 degree turns, so Ron could probably go 5 - 10
seconds faster under better conditions. I went head to head with Ron
Enos (honorable mention) at the Las Vegas Marathon a few years ago and he
finished 3rd, almost 1 minute behind me. Yeah, the top 3 places
at Las Vegas in 60-64 group were within 1 minute of each other! I passed
the second place guy about 2 miles from the finish, heading north towards the finish
on Frank Sinatra Drive. I could tell by the size of his ears that we had
to be close to the same age, so when I passed him I was going as fast as I
dared to go that late in the race and with still another 14 - 15 minutes of
racing left. I am certain I would gone sub 3 hours that day but the
damn 35-40 mph wind shot that down. Ron ran 2:57 at Boston the
following April.
Well, now that your colon is cleaned out, be sure to get your
electro-lytes back up and you should be flying in a couple of weeks.
Are you running Shamrock this Saturday or keeping it a
low-key-mend-the-seared-sphincter weekend?
All the best,
Bart
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