Flashes of Panic"A school is a factory is a poem is a prison is academia is boredom, with flashes of panic." — Joseph BrodskyHalf-baked stories- July 6, 2008 Most of the ideas I&8217;ve thought through while I&8217;ve been here, I&8217;ve tried to articulate on the Runner&8217;s World site. (My favorite example, which I&8217;m still convinced is a valid idea even if I seem to be the only one who gets it, is &8220;Gabe Jennings and the &8216;More Magic&8217; Switch&8221;.) But I still have a bunch I haven&8217;t been able to marinate long enough to write in a way that makes sense. One is the retirees. On Friday, two different athletes (Ann Gaffigan..http://www.flashesofpanic.com/panic/002351.php In which I give unsolicited career advice- July 2, 2008 It may be time for Adam Goucher to become a house-husband. There&8217;s some curiosity about why Adam dropped out of the men&8217;s 5,000m final with two laps to go on Monday night. The party line is that Goucher and his coach, Alberto Salazar, saw that the race was not going to be won in a time faster than the Olympic &8220;A&8221; standard, which meant that even if Goucher won&8212;and it was clear by then that he wouldn&8217;t&8212;he wasn&8217;t going to Beijing. So Salazar waved Goucher...http://www.flashesofpanic.com/panic/002350.php |