Once A Runner…

Hello world!

I took the name of this blog from the title of the novel by John L. Parker, Jr. which was published in 1978, about eight years after I started running in junior high school after reading the biographies of milers Roger Bannister and Glenn Cunningham.

Here, I may occasionally wax nostalgic about my past running. I’m likely to get some of the facts wrong after so many years, but that’s to be expected. I’ll try to be as accurate as I can, but I know my memory isn’t perfect. I also know that I tend to recall things as having a rosier glow than whatever the real truth may be, so I might sometimes be guilty of painting a prettier picture of the past than what it truly was.

Regardless, I wanted to start this blog to keep track of all those memories as well as to chronicle my “comeback” to the running life. I’ve let a whole lot of years go by without ever realizing the potential I might once have had and that’s gone forever. Now, the objective is just to get back to running and, when I do, to keep running.