Archive for February, 2010

February 14, 2010

Hey Joe – I just finished reading A Dog In A Hat – what a great read, finished it as soon as I got it. One thing that I’m curious about is your training – it seems sort of spotty by how you describe it and you mention that you get much better form by racing. However, I’m also sure you didn’t just show up and start racing without some fitness. I’m also wondering how you think you might have trained differently given what’s known about training (or that it seems less traditional, more individualized) today.

Dave King - Fresno, California

Dave,

I'm sure you've heard people say, "I was born a few years too early." Well, I was definitely a part of the era that didn't really know much about training, but I would never have been able to train like they do today, so I am perfectly happy with when I was born.

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February 2, 2010

Bob Roll

rolldewolfversluysI'm sure that many of you know by now that Bob Roll was seriously injured in a skiing accident. In the crash Bobke managed to break three ribs and his femur. I've been friends with Bob for twenty-five years now, and have always known him to be a tough dude. I've broken my own fair share of ribs, and would wish that incredibly inconvenient pain on no one but, according to the Blob, breaking a femur takes pain to a whole new level.

When I was racing in Belgium, I would always know when my competitors were, shall we say, chemically altered with any number of drugs in the amphetamine category because they could

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