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Running in pop culture - music, film, TV, social media and literature - jogging nostalgia, Olympics footage, inspirational quotage, the occasional double entendre and interesting stuff from Her Majesty's Internet.
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The Rise of the Run-ch Break →
From The Daily Mail:
“Researchers found around one in 13 employees now swap their suits for jogging gear and pound the streets while their colleagues relax and eat.
And, over the course of the year, fitness-craving staff clock up an average of 468 miles while away from their desks.”
Subtext:
Loads of British workers are taking the piss out of their employers by going for extended lunch breaks when they should be toiling away, sweating at their desks.
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1964 Tokyo Olympics Marathon
Part One
Part Two
GOLD Abebe Bikila (Ethiopia) 2:12:11:22
SILVER Basil Heatley (Great Britain) 2:16:19:23
BRONZE Kokichi Tsuburaya (Japan) 2:16:22:8
Defending champion Abebe Bikila was back and was considered the favorite, having lost only one marathon in his career to that point – the 1963 Boston race. But he had several strong contenders, among them the American Buddy Edelen, who in 1963 had broken the world record with 2-14:28 in the Polytechnic race in Britain, and had also won the Košice marathon in Czechoslovakia in 2-15:09.6. Britain had two top marathoners in Basil Heatley and Brian Kilby. Japan was led by Toru Terasawa, who had won the 1963 Fukuoka Marathon, and broken the world record early in 1963 at the Beppu Marathon.
But there was only Bikila. The race began at 1 PM, and was contested over a very flat straight out-and-back course. Bikila ran in the lead pack right from the start. By the turnaround point, this time running in shoes, he was leading by 15 seconds, and from there to the finish, he simply extended the lead, winning by over four minutes. Heatley finished second, but had been third entering the stadium. Third went to a native son, not Terasawa, but rather Kokichi Tsuburaya. Brian Kilby finished fourth, and Buddy Edelen, hampered by a sciatic nerve injury, placed sixth.
Tsuburaya was crushed that he had been passed on the track by Heatley in front of the Japanese crowd. He vowed to improve and pushed himself in training, but it resulted in multiple injuries. Finally, in early January 1968, he committed suicide by slashing his carotid artery with a razor blade. The note he left said simply, “Cannot run anymore.”
Filed under: olympic marathons, Tokyo Olympics, Abebe Bikila, Marathon, Running, Run,. -
A Short History of Running In Pop Videos #014
Blackbud: You Can Run
Theme: First film of a man aggressively running towards a finish line is reversed (clever), then we see the same man in a suit similarly running in reverse. It’s clear he’s not very happy. But why? Well, he’s in a graveyard. Finally there’s a boy running backwards from what is revealed to be the scene of domestic violence. In between all this there are stylish shots of the band noodling their way through the most miserable song ever (nice reverb though). The “twist” at the end is that the boy and the man are the same person. LOOK! They’re wearing the same giant number on their vests. It’s like Tales of The Unexpected in running form. Or something. (Meaningful stare into middle distance).
Reality check: The angry man who wins the race, roaring past the pair of club runners in the final few yards is wearing unfeasibly enormous shorts - certainly not the kind of shorts someone capable of winning a race of any description (including an egg and spoon race) would ever conceive of wearing through fear of being blown into the upper atmosphere by a sudden gust of wind. Although perhaps the shorts are to match his similarly massive race number the size of which hasn’t been seen since 1954.
Can you run to the song? No.
On your marks: 2/10
Notes: The whole reverse thing was also done by Coldplay - but with less running - and by God Lives Underwater with even less running but added eating.
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What it looks like when the whole of London goes running…
The data — indicating speed, distance and location — came from 10,000 individuals exercising between November 2010 and April this year. Thick, bright lines denote the more popular routes; duller tones show quieter paths. Favourite spots include the major parks, and eastenders keep fit along the canal ways and in Victoria Park. Who doesn’t like to run along the Thames? Parsons Green residents, apparently.
(From Wired UK)
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Bryan Adams rocking the velour jogging suit, 1981
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(via solidindecision)
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I’m gonna sprint to Londis.
We’ve all been there. Right?
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