One of my first assignments as a cub reporter was to cover a top-ranked racewalker on her quest to help people get in shape through walking. From my own modest efforts to get back into running to covering elite endurance athletes, I have always been drawn to the sweat, grit, and transcendence of the long haul. Here are a few examples of my writing about this domain of the few, the fast, and the longsuffering.
Here’s a recent advertorial for Biomedical Research Laboratories’ EPO-Boost nutritional supplement, which is running in Triathlete magazine.
Advertorial for EPO-Boost
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Follow my own modest efforts to get back into running on my blog for Tim Bondy Physcial Therapy. You can check out the tears and triumph at http://www.overthehillandbackupagain.com/.
These young swimmers only swam one lap, but the lap was the full length of Lake Michigan …
How’s this for old-fashioned endurance. It is believed this guy survived two days and nights on an ice floe in Lake Michigan out of sheer “cussedness.”
