A 1922 editorial in The New York Times said that "Will Rogers in the Follies is carrying on the tradition of Aristophanes, and not unworthily. In 1911, Rogers bought a 20-acre (8.1 ha) ranch near Claremore, Oklahoma, which he intended to use as his retirement home. Within a few short years the floodgates would open and wave of runners from Kenya and Ethiopia would begin to dominate. There are these life things that happen to older runners that wouldn’t happen to younger runners. Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Top picked items. She produced terrific records, that’s for sure, but she’s had nearly thirty surgeries on her legs”. In 1976, the African nations boycotted Montreal. Rodgers pauses, the dark cloud that had formed in his head passing almost as quickly as it had come. I just didn’t know how that would translate when I ran the Boston Marathon. That’s how I received word that a bomb that went off at the Boston Marathon.

Voices of Oklahoma interview with Doris "Coke" Meyer, grand-niece to Will Rogers. [29], Will Rogers became an advocate for the aviation industry after noticing advancements in Europe and befriending Charles Lindbergh, the most famous American aviator of the era. Never mind that rival Frank Short would be there as well. Thankfully I had conserved enough energy to make that final push at the end. When we were traveling from race to race, we’d go back to a hotel afterwards and our celebration was getting a big bowl of nuts or chips with cheese.

marathoner in the At 33, the one.time undisputed King Of The Roads remains an intensely competitive athlete, businessman and human He is the Of all—human. In 1975, I knew I was fit after my third place in the World Cross-Country Championships, which was two months earlier. He would make jokes about what he had read in that day's newspapers.

Well, I guess I parked in the wrong place, and after I won I learned that my car was gone and had been towed. None of these existed in 1975, when Rodgers set the American record and won his first Boston Marathon with a time of 2:09:55. We all rode our bikes. There’s been a ding here and there, some worse than others, he’s emerged on the other end no worse for the wear. To win was so exciting. Today, Bill Rodgers is the elder statesman of distance running. It was the kind of freedom that this sport gives you, and it was all about a new way to look at health and fitness.

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There were some people who didn’t think that I was patriotic because of my stance against the Vietnam War, but I am intensely that way, intensely patriotic. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus). Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Sterling, Bryan B., and Frances N. Sterling, eds. While the 32-year-old Rodgers made it clear that his offseason workouts are still crucial, too -- “[Strength coach] Mark Lovat does a great job on our strength and conditioning area, and I've been working hard at that,” he said -- Rodgers believes a smarter approach to his diet will also benefit him significantly in his quest to play six to eight more NFL seasons. I walked away admiring him.

So it worked for a while for both of us. U.S. running champ Bill Rodgers, who set a Boston Marathon record of 2:09:55 in 1975 and again at 2:09:27 in 1979, was a legendary junk-food junkie, known to indulge in …

PhD dissertation, Wayne State U. Salazar outsprinted Beardsley and collapsed, completely spent. The Academy of Western Artists, based in Gene Autry, Oklahoma, presents an annual Will Rogers Medallion award for excellence in western literature.[37]. His humor never offended even those who were the targets of it. Covers the full spectrum of issues for runners -- getting started, diet, clothing & shoes, injury treatment, & countering the effects of aging. “And there at the race were two former heavyweight boxing champions, American Floyd Patterson and Swede Ingemar Johansson. I couldn’t believe it. I just kept saying the same thing to myself:  This can’t be. “I believe that ’82 race was one of the best Boston Marathons ever run,” he says, “because both of them ran 2:08 in that heat. He was also the most dominant marathoner in the world, a runner at the height of his powers who would win a mind-boggling 27 of 30 races he entered in 1978.

Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. He was fresh off a Boston Marathon three-peat, and still the a force to be reckoned with. [19] He had already published a book of wisecracks and had begun a steady stream of humor books. He was an Average Joe, just like us – and a 4-time winner in both the Boston and New York City marathons, “They didn’t have the good gear back in the ‘70s,” Rodgers says, protesting with a laugh.

The house in which he was born had been built in 1875 and was known as the "White House on the Verdigris River". Before they left Fairbanks, they signed and mailed a burgee, a distinguishing flag belonging to the South Coast Corinthian Yacht Club. Frank Shorter and I were a little bit closer to the earlier Boston Marathon winners, the Johnny Kelleys and Clarence Demars, than to runners of the present day who are so focused on all aspects of fitness, including nutrition.