Flashes of Panic

I have been a self-confessed track geek for a dozen or so years. I suppose you could even say I’m a professional track geek, (“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro,” as the man said,) and for a few years I even managed to support myself with a job for which one of my major qualifications was being a track geek.

That said, I’ve always fallen silent when I’ve shown up at meets and seen the cabal of T&FN guys with their stopwatches and binders. I just can’t measure up, there; I love seeing someone run fast, but when you come right down to it, I like to see a good race, not a good statistic.

So, though my fellow “Bell Lap” contributors are sometimes as uneven as I am, I think Marc Bloom nailed it today.

Now Playing: Left Of The Dial from Tim by The Replacements