You ever seen a bald Jizzle Wizzle? Well, you’re going to on June 25 next year. I imagine most readers of this blog think I only lose bets, and, well, I do lose a lot of bets. But, today was match play at Hayward Field for one mile and I prevailed. As a result, the …
The venerable A Jizzle Wizzle is coming to Oregon next week. One of the things he’ll be doing, in addition to visiting family, is meeting me at Hayward Field on Wednesday before Thanksgiving to a run a mile. No pacers. Just two old ultrarunners going head to head. Because he loves to bet, we’re going …
If you’re a regular reader of this blog you probably have figured out that I enjoy the friendly wager. My wife might say that I have a problem. It’s not so much the bets that are the problem, it’s when I lose the bets that they become a problem. This year I’ve had a particularly …
Guest Post by White Trash (Alan Abbs) It’s getting to be that time. For some, that means “Western States,” “Western,” “States,” “The Big Dance,” “The Track Meet,” or whatever else you refer to it as. But as we described on this blog last December, this weekend is part one of a competition that we have …
Today, November 23, 2009, at historic Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon (a.k.a. Tracktown USA), Andy Jones-Wilkins (a.k.a AJizzleWizzle or the Jiz or Mr Wizzle) took me up on my challenge to try to break 5 minutes for the mile. The track is very foreign to the Jiz but he was brave enough to get on …