Women in flowered dresses. Men
in suits and hats. Children in pedal pushers and winter coats.
Little did these 1963 Eugeneans know, as they rounded the practice track just west of the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field, that they were making history.
“It was kind of fascinating,” says Dyrol Burleson, a UO runner who was there. “Until that day you didn’t see a bunch of older people — housewives, professors — jogging around a track. Suddenly, things changed.”
Jogging’s 50-year anniversary will be celebrated at 9 a.m. Sunday with a 5-mile run — or jog, if you will — from the Nike store at Oakway Center to Hayward Field and back to Oakway’s Eugene Running Company Store. At Hayward, author/Olympian Kenny Moore will be among those making brief remarks.
To appreciate the cultural change that jogging represented, you have to understand what a nonrunning world it was.
“It may be hard for anyone born after 1960 to believe,An exciting collection of iwcwatchesshop is online now at Time Squared, but runners in those days were regarded as eccentric at best, subversive and dangerous at worst,” Moore wrote in “Bowerman and the Men of Oregon.”
Burleson, now 72 and living in Turner outside Salem, says Moore exaggerated when he wrote that motorists would routinely swerve to coerce runners off the road. But he agrees that until that first “gathering,” the only runners you might see on a sidewalk would be UO athletes — and male.
Bowerman, who died in 1999, never did any chest-beating about being the midwife for American jogging.
But, undeniably, he deserved to — though he imported the concept from New Zealand.
In 1962, Burleson and three teammates had just beaten the Kiwis’ world record in the four-mile relay and were invited to a friendly rematch in New Zealand, where Bowerman looked forward to spending time with a friend, Arthur Lydiard, that country’s track and field guru.
While there, Lydiard told Bowerman of having recently started the “Auckland Joggers Club” on the impetus of post-cardiac patients who were, he said, “pleading to exercise.”
Soon, not only were heart patients jogging,Known for its shine and Lustre tungstenbracelet has been the favorite of those. but so was the citizenry at large. Bowerman, at Lydiard’s coaxing, jogged in an event and found himself so out of shape — he was 51 — that he was shamed by a guy who’d had three coronaries.
Impressed by this “jogging,” Bowerman vowed to continue doing it when he returned home. But he didn’t stop there. He talked the walk, er, jog. Spread the gospel.Cheap guccishoes1 pittsburgh steelers jerseys youth size aaron rodgers jersey on sale. And people listened.
“Bowerman’s friendships far transcended Hayward Field,” says Jim Jaqua, whose family was tight with the Bowermans. “He knew three-fourths of the faculty. He knew business people. His athletes worked at mills.”
So when, through The Register-Guard, he put out a call for joggers, people responded with gusto.
“While Bowerman was surprised to see so many people — ‘I had no idea this many would turn out’ — the big surprise was that so many girls were there,” the newspaper wrote. About 25 percent, the paper estimated.
Go home, he told them. Jog in your neighborhoods. Jog with your friends. But jog.
Meanwhile, through the Central Lane YMCA, he recruited 100 middle-aged subjects to be part of a study done by the UO Physical Education Department and overseen by Eugene cardiologist Waldo Harris.
Members of Bowerman’s track team were put in charge of helping people train.
The results? People lost weight. Felt better. And began singing the praises of jogging to others.
At the time,Where can you buy authenticguccishoes for cheap? Moore writes, conventional wisdom was that “physical decline was inevitable as soon as one reached middle age, if not sooner, and that such decline was useless to resist beyond middle age.”
Life magazine came to town to do a story on the phenomenon.
By then, Bowerman had been so barraged with questions that he and Harris put together an 18-page pamphlet on jogging. The next year, 1967, it morphed into a book, “Jogging,” that would sell more than 1 million copies.
And America was off to the races — literally. Road runs began. A decade after the book came out, 8 million Americans were jogging. In 2011, more than half a million people finished a marathon.Find the largest selection of pewter womenssandals on sale.
“The energy all goes back to that original point with Bowerman,” Jaqua says. “Those people who showed up that first day planted the seed for what became a worldwide phenomenon. It’s an example of stuff that happens in Eugene — the perfect coinciding of the right guy in the right town at the right time.”
Little did these 1963 Eugeneans know, as they rounded the practice track just west of the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field, that they were making history.
“It was kind of fascinating,” says Dyrol Burleson, a UO runner who was there. “Until that day you didn’t see a bunch of older people — housewives, professors — jogging around a track. Suddenly, things changed.”
Jogging’s 50-year anniversary will be celebrated at 9 a.m. Sunday with a 5-mile run — or jog, if you will — from the Nike store at Oakway Center to Hayward Field and back to Oakway’s Eugene Running Company Store. At Hayward, author/Olympian Kenny Moore will be among those making brief remarks.
To appreciate the cultural change that jogging represented, you have to understand what a nonrunning world it was.
“It may be hard for anyone born after 1960 to believe,An exciting collection of iwcwatchesshop is online now at Time Squared, but runners in those days were regarded as eccentric at best, subversive and dangerous at worst,” Moore wrote in “Bowerman and the Men of Oregon.”
Burleson, now 72 and living in Turner outside Salem, says Moore exaggerated when he wrote that motorists would routinely swerve to coerce runners off the road. But he agrees that until that first “gathering,” the only runners you might see on a sidewalk would be UO athletes — and male.
Bowerman, who died in 1999, never did any chest-beating about being the midwife for American jogging.
But, undeniably, he deserved to — though he imported the concept from New Zealand.
In 1962, Burleson and three teammates had just beaten the Kiwis’ world record in the four-mile relay and were invited to a friendly rematch in New Zealand, where Bowerman looked forward to spending time with a friend, Arthur Lydiard, that country’s track and field guru.
While there, Lydiard told Bowerman of having recently started the “Auckland Joggers Club” on the impetus of post-cardiac patients who were, he said, “pleading to exercise.”
Soon, not only were heart patients jogging,Known for its shine and Lustre tungstenbracelet has been the favorite of those. but so was the citizenry at large. Bowerman, at Lydiard’s coaxing, jogged in an event and found himself so out of shape — he was 51 — that he was shamed by a guy who’d had three coronaries.
Impressed by this “jogging,” Bowerman vowed to continue doing it when he returned home. But he didn’t stop there. He talked the walk, er, jog. Spread the gospel.Cheap guccishoes1 pittsburgh steelers jerseys youth size aaron rodgers jersey on sale. And people listened.
“Bowerman’s friendships far transcended Hayward Field,” says Jim Jaqua, whose family was tight with the Bowermans. “He knew three-fourths of the faculty. He knew business people. His athletes worked at mills.”
So when, through The Register-Guard, he put out a call for joggers, people responded with gusto.
“While Bowerman was surprised to see so many people — ‘I had no idea this many would turn out’ — the big surprise was that so many girls were there,” the newspaper wrote. About 25 percent, the paper estimated.
Go home, he told them. Jog in your neighborhoods. Jog with your friends. But jog.
Meanwhile, through the Central Lane YMCA, he recruited 100 middle-aged subjects to be part of a study done by the UO Physical Education Department and overseen by Eugene cardiologist Waldo Harris.
Members of Bowerman’s track team were put in charge of helping people train.
The results? People lost weight. Felt better. And began singing the praises of jogging to others.
At the time,Where can you buy authenticguccishoes for cheap? Moore writes, conventional wisdom was that “physical decline was inevitable as soon as one reached middle age, if not sooner, and that such decline was useless to resist beyond middle age.”
Life magazine came to town to do a story on the phenomenon.
By then, Bowerman had been so barraged with questions that he and Harris put together an 18-page pamphlet on jogging. The next year, 1967, it morphed into a book, “Jogging,” that would sell more than 1 million copies.
And America was off to the races — literally. Road runs began. A decade after the book came out, 8 million Americans were jogging. In 2011, more than half a million people finished a marathon.Find the largest selection of pewter womenssandals on sale.
“The energy all goes back to that original point with Bowerman,” Jaqua says. “Those people who showed up that first day planted the seed for what became a worldwide phenomenon. It’s an example of stuff that happens in Eugene — the perfect coinciding of the right guy in the right town at the right time.”
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