Joe Henderson

A lesser but still fundamental rule of racing is that you properly enter the event. Anyone who doesn't but still insists on running interferes with the paying customers. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#customers #enter #event #fundamental #insists

A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#course #ever-changing #feelings #find #light

His name, Buzz, fits. He can buzz along at 40 miles an hour when his genetic memory moves him. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#buzz #fits #genetic #him #his

I feared the verdict of the watch, where I either lost the race against time that day or would lose it soon by making the record even harder to break. The time trap had snapped shut. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#break #day #either #even #feared

I've lived nearby since 1981 and probably have averaged one run a week there. That's more than 1,000 repetitions, and I have yet to tire of this course. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#course #i #lived #more #nearby

In fact, the bandits steal the drinks and assistance provided along the course. Worse, they cross the finish line and mess up the scoring of legitimate runners. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#assistance #bandits #course #cross #drinks

Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through this park that later became home to Pre's Trail. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#became #converted #dump #favorite #first

Speed eventually neared its peak. The records forced me to work ever harder to drop a less and less time. These time trials came to feel like races, which are fun to run sporadically but not daily. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#daily #drop #eventually #ever #feel

That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#found #gives #illusion #important #mile

That's how most of us would feel. But the sport has a few deviants without consciences. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#feel #few #how #most #us