by Bill Plock | Nov 12, 2019 | Community
By Bill Plock This will date me I know, but when I was a kid, every month in school we ordered books through the Scholastic Book Program. We would adhere stickers to an order form, actually lick the envelope, stamp and mail an order. Can you imagine?? I would always...
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by Bill Plock | Sep 19, 2018 | Community
Vernon Loeb for The Atlantic We were packed into our corrals on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway on Sunday morning, waiting to start the Rock ‘n’ Roll Philadelphia Half Marathon, when the announcement came: Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya had just set a new world marathon record...
by Bill Plock | Dec 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
“…only three athletes active today have finished ‘current-neutral’ swims of 63 miles or more — all three of them women.” Unnoticed and unfeted, a US swimmer is breaking the sport’s boundaries From Financial Times Last week Sarah Thomas...
by 303cycling | Oct 4, 2017 | Hot Topic, Track Cycling
From BRAC Late last week, Stormin Norman Alvis laid it all out on the track in Colorado Springs and set a new masters world record for the hour, riding 49.392 kilometers, handily beating the old record of 48.891. Isn’t that even faster than Merckx went? Of...
