In v e rt« ] Man
by Archie Buchanan
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i came upon a man
He was standing there, without moving, on hts
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head
His h eir flowed dcwn. dwm to the ground and
nurtured there
Roots grew of hair
H a ir . turned into roots, fin d irg new life w ith in
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Percy C e ru tty . health and fitness sage, tossed off his
the e a rth , sending e n e rg / back into the bod/ of
sedentary. w hite bread living habits arid went about
reclaim ing his heart and b o d /la te in life
A rth u r Lydiard. B ill Bower man, Ads lie Davis, Dr
h im . ’ S i r , how do you move about, w ith your
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have always oondsiderad myself the fortunate
beneficiary of th e ir legacy
Perce describes his v is it to a trib e of Australian
Abor igines in Arnhem Land D uring his s ta / the trib e
engaged in a hunt A young boy hurled his woomera ( a
feet In the a ir and your roots grown from
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He looked at me and he frowned a bit
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11OD am ® 00 pm
and nwa< on* bnw H qpfroWnvnS
(rem em ber a frw rn is just a sm ile turned
upside down) before be rep lied, "I
tom
my
feet slowty and I walk on the sky
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hunting spear) at a kangaroo, missed th e c re e tu re , then
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cfiaaed H e animal cross country for 6 0 miles before
dt spot chi ng it The episode stunned Percy Few of his
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urban contemporer les could walk ten m iles, let alone
ru n short distances
How long had he stood this w » / when I came
upon him w ith his feet in the a ir ? S o ,1 aaked
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Renneth Cooper, and others proselytized, lectured, and
jogged aer ubic fitness into contemporary c ultu re
the man who stood on his hand
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P ercy,
He vowed to change his life after
re tire m e n t, set s rem arkable course of exercise and
personal fitness in the rem aining decades of his life ,
and pioneered the fitness movement that began In the
ear ly 7 0 ‘s and continues tod»/
I stumbled Into an essentialty regular pattern of
exercise p a r tly by predisposition and largely by
fortuitous happenstance
The prospect of becoming a
house sloth, confined to a televised landscape revolted
me I sevor p a rtic ip a to ry sport I believe in the
in trin s ic value of aer o tic exercise It s damn good fun
Cheap A vailable on demand
At tw elve I fir s t tasted the exhilaration latent In a
distant ru n
Wes Lawson
O rg a n ic G a rd e n in g
& M a in te n a n ce
The red sky glow of a house a fire caught
my attention one evening at dusk
A friend and I
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sprinted three m iles to the site, a rriv in g winded and
fu ll of ourselves
Jim Babson, L Ifeguar d f mer itus of Cannon Beech,
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lifetim e friend and citizen athlete par excellence,
established a running partn ersh ip we've shared for
near ly th irty years
Jim and I slogged the sands at
Cannon Beach regular ly in the ear ly 6 0 s running
bar efool, occasioning stares and odd comments fr om
passersby
away
We were oddities Jogging was a decade
No N ike, Reebok, or Adidas companies yet
produced running shoes Our e a rly running peeked one
s till August morning at low tide, when Jim and I ran
from Elk Creek to Arch Cape and berk barefoofed--a
distance of about 14 m iles
Our feet were sandpapered
ra w , but our s p irits snared
Drafted in 1 9 6 9 , 1 attended Officer Candidate School
at Fort S ill, home of the field a r tille r y
Rigid and
disciplined, the school ran a West Point pro g ram ,
grinding its candidates dnwn to nubs physically and
m entally Dem erits and the "honor system" cut the
tro ll down to size Lower classmen ( "maggots")
competed In the m ile ru n w hile upper classmen jeered
and needled from the sidelines My firs t m ile tim e was
5 2 5 A tactical officer challenged my tim e for
purposes of harassment, forcing me t o r e - r u n the
distance two hours later
I laced off a 5 2 3 m ile under
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close s c ru tin y , avoided expulsion, and gloated quietly
Excessive dem erits meant candidates ran a guidBd
tour "on Saturday The ru n s, in formation wearing fu ll
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field geer . w ere termed "Jerks", a name derived from
an infamous General Jark who piled up heaps of
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dem erits Candidates Renzullo. Adams. Howard, and
Lindsey ran th e ir In itia l "cherry *)ark" three m iles
u p h ill and back. lugging a 2 5 6 pound rock in a duffle
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bag. a record I tru st s till stands at Fort S ill
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D u ring the years 1 9 7 0 - 7 3 I attended graduate
school at the U n iversity of Oregon
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Look fo r o u r
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B ill Bower man's
track and jogging p ra y ams gained national attention
Steve Prefontaine, Arne K valh eim , Kenny Moore, and
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G e rry Lindgren circled the track and h ills of Eugene
In the golden ere of track and field they w ere friends
ar*1 contemporaries, available for beer and banter at
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Duffy's Tavern and Max ie"s I was hooked
In the years since I ve jogged and hiked consistently
The a ctiv ity preserved my sanity and pared aw a / t ie
dark beer , m ilkshake, and lamb chop color ies
Accoompanied frequently by J im Babson and Laurie
Beers Iv e completed the Seaside T ra ils End M arathon,
suoi»
participated in the firs t Nike Marathon in f ugene
( 1 9 7 1 ) , taken p art in the Hood to Coast Relay ( 1 9 8 9 ) ,
Qiiea KojiureK
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tria th lo n s , biathlons, mountain bike races, a
c r ite r iu m . 2 0 years of SeasidB Bench Runs, and seven
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FEATURING KID SIEGEL, BLUES, FRIDAY NIGHTS
years of Coumbla Crossings
I don't n o rm ally prescrib e for others, but fitness
has rewards
Sweet is beautiful
If your interest in
aerobic exercise seeks direction, contact
Sunset Parks
and Recreation in Seaside, Dennis Braun or Rich
Fenscak a, 8ikes and Beyond. M ike Stanley at M ike's
Bike Shop, or Neal Bramson at the Seaside School
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