Blood, Sweat & Spikes: Running the Wetmore Way

by Lyle Smith

Overview

At the height of the first American Running Boom, a small town in New Jersey emerged as something of a magical place in the sport. Tiny Bernardsville in the Somerset Hills produced dozens of local, state, age-group, and national champions and claimed a place in the pantheon of American distance running. A junior program fed a high school team of boys and girls that claimed legend status. Before he was one of the best collegiate distance running coaches on the planet, Mark Wetmore was the young, ambitious, experimental coach of this program. BLOOD, SWEAT & SPIKES is one story of one of those runners in that town and the people who made it unique in the history of the sport.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798993054650
Publisher:	Nymblesmith
Publication date:	01/15/2025
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Lyle Smith lives in the Boulder Valley drawing daily inspiration from his wife, Heather, a leading acupuncturist and fertility specialist in her field and his son, Aiden, a truly old soul who forever forces new angles from which to admire the world. Lyle’s been a reporter, a caddie, a grave-digger, a marketing professional, and a runner since he discovered the sport as a youngster growing up in Bernardsville, New Jersey. You might see him out there running the trails around Boulder with his Golden Retriever, Elsa.

Editorial Reviews

We chase happiness in grace, pleasure and more importantly, what the Greeks called "arete." Excellence. To get good at something molds us into better human beings not quite chasing windmills, but a pursuit to be better at distance running. But it really could be anything. Lyle Smith, with "Blood sweat and spikes," has shown us a peek of a world once lived before the internet and social media. A time and place and story that should be told.

Elite Marathon Coach, Author of Run Faster. - Brad Hudson