Hometown Mourns Ryan Shay: A Fine Article in the NY Times...

The New York Times, one of the most important newspapers in North America, devoted most of two news paper pages to an excellent piece on Ryan Shay.
The piece is written by Jere Longman, one of the top sports writers in the country, and the piece gives an even better picture of what happened leading up to Ryan’s collapse on the
marathon course last Saturday….

Hindsight is always 20-20, or so the saying goes.
Anyone involved in this terrible tragedy will go back, day, by day, to see if anything could have been done. One more moment with the person you love. In the end, nothing can be done to change the final outcome. Ryan Shay, a good young man, the pride of his family and his hometown, a new husband, has died much too early. And we will
mourn him all in our own way.
To read the NY Times Story in its entirety: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/08/sports/othersports/08runner.html?
pagewanted=3&_r=1&ref=sports

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Larry Eder
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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