Blood, Sweat & Spikes
Running the Wetmore Way
a memoir by Lyle Smith
About the book.
At the height of the first American Running Boom, on just about any weekend morning of the year in a town nearby, you could find a folding table and a ball-point pen where you could fill out an entry blank, get a number and a few safety pins, affix it to your shirt, toe the line and run a race. Hundreds and thousands of people took joy in running and an ancient sport gained new energy. A small town in New Jersey emerged as something of a magical place in the sport. Dozens of local, state, and national champions claimed their places in the pantheon of American distance running. A junior program fed a high school team of boys and girls that claimed legend status and a young coach connected with those athletes in a way that spawned a career unlike any other. One that would eventually take root in the thin air of the Colorado foothills. BLOOD, SWEAT & SPIKES is one story of one of those runners in that town and the people who made it unique in the history of the sport.
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Brad Hudson, Elite Marathon Coach, Author of “Run Faster.”
“We chase happiness in grace, pleasure and more importantly, what the Greeks called “arete." Excellence. To get good at something molds us into better human beings not quite chasing windmills, but a pursuit to be better at distance running. But it really could be anything. Lyle Smith, with “Blood sweat and spikes,” has shown us a peek of a world once lived before the internet and social media. A time and place and story that should be told.”
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