Running

      John Mundy was always a fast runner so when he began to attend newly opened Holy Ghost Prep in the early ‘60s, he wanted to go out for the track and field team.       […]

      For years, the familiar sign on the bridge across the Delaware has read: “Trenton Makes, the World Takes.’’       Maybe now they should change that slogan to “Trenton Makes, and Takes the World.’’       […]

      Way back at the beginning of the modern running movement in the 1970s, a New Zealand coach/guru named Arthur Lydiard was credited with the concept of LSD – long, slow distance.       Lydiard’s basic […]

      Leave it to the Tokyo Olympic Games to say good-bye with one last debate.       We’ve already been through enough hand-wringing over whether to even stage the controversial Olympiad due to the pandemic but […]

There are 10-mile races and then there is the Broad Street Run, which is quite worthy of a perfect “10’’ rating. So it was with great joy that everyone learned the 41-year-old gem would be […]

What if they held an Olympics and nobody came? Or, perhaps even sadder, what if they held an Olympics and no one was allowed to come? The Tokyo Olympic Games, operating under a dark cloud […]

      A few years back we wrote about Lorraine Jasper and her courageous battle to overcome cancer.       The national-class runner not only defeated the disease with a one-two punch of diet and exercise, she […]

      The pandemic got off to a fast start but the Bucks 5K Series showed superior endurance and reached the finish line first in the race to determine a return to normalcy.       Some 400 […]