A lifeless body is draped over the dirt and rocks on a park trail. Even though it was a tragic running accident, I am still the one responsible.
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Archive for the Stories CategoryI’d heard rumors about a low-key fun mile track race put on annually by Don and Tammy Slusser. Then I received an inside tip from an informant: the race was to go down on June 14th at 6:00 pm. That evening I threw my shoes into the back of the car and made my way to the track. The event was obviously the work of professionals, but they refused the money offered as an entry fee and told me this was all free. I thought it was odd, but I played along and here’s my story. He takes no potions or vitamin pills. And no special diet–”I eat what my wife puts in front of me”, he says, although he reportedly has ice cream for dessert every night. He doesn’t stretch regularly, and doesn’t lift weights, cross-train, or carbohydrate load. He has no coach, training partner, massage therapist, sports psychologist, shoe contract or high-altitude simulation tent.1,2 He ran as a teenager but quit after moving to Canada in 1952 to pursue his engineering career, and didn’t run again until his early 40’s in 1972. But here are some of Ed Whitlock’s astonishing statistics:
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