2022 RunBlogRun Spring Middle Distance Daily Track Training (800m-5000m), Week 15, Day 6

Once I was in highschool, San Jose Metropolis School was the place to see the celebrities. I’d run by there on our morning runs and night runs. One morning we noticed this big athlete throwing the discus. Within the night, we watched him throwing the javelin. I bear in mind going as much as ask him which occasion he did. The man was very good, smiled, and advised me that he was a decathlete. I had seen tales about decathletes on Bud Greenspan’s Olympiad exhibits however by no means met one. I bear in mind considering, this man is an Olympian (and he was, having positioned twelfth in 1972).

That summer season, he gained the 1976 Olympic video games decathlon. I’d spend a while with Bruce Jenner (now Caitlyn Jenner) within the Nineteen Nineties and located him to be all the time a pleasant particular person. On the time, the residing decathlon gold medalists have been serving to younger American decathletes respect the extent of competitors at world occasions.

When Bruce Jenner transitioned to Caitlyn Jenner, a number of the first folks to want him the most effective was his former opponents and coaches. I hope sometime to have the ability to inform her how a lot she meant to me. I recall Daley Thompson, Olympic gold in 1980 and 1984, at an interview, talking kindly about how Caitlyn Jenner had supported Daley previous to the 1984 LA Olympics.

That’s the method it must be.

adidas Saturn, a spike circa 1974-1976, photograph courtesy of Etsy.com

Your exercise for in the present day, April 23, 2022, Saturday: warm-up, 800m, 1,500m, 3000m, or 5000m, settle down