Chris Lear’s cult classic Running with the Buffaloes turns 25 and its portrait of Mark Wetmore’s relentless ethos still defines American distance running.
…never ran competitively but distance running has always had a romantic pull for me (took me a long time to dig in as a semi hobby)…what inspired you to get into running?…
Thanks for asking! In some ways, it was merely a matter of being pretty steeped in sports as a kid and transitioning from team sports into individual sports because the teams at my high school were not particularly good. But then once I started competing in running, it was just the idea of improvement and seeing how far I could take myself and getting faster that really sunk into me.
…never ran competitively but distance running has always had a romantic pull for me (took me a long time to dig in as a semi hobby)…what inspired you to get into running?…
Thanks for asking! In some ways, it was merely a matter of being pretty steeped in sports as a kid and transitioning from team sports into individual sports because the teams at my high school were not particularly good. But then once I started competing in running, it was just the idea of improvement and seeing how far I could take myself and getting faster that really sunk into me.