![]() ![]() Visually, from the outside the wounds healed in a week and within three days I could actually stretch my quad for the first time since it happened. Then he said, “But I wouldn’t run on pavement anymore.”Īfterward the amount of atrophy was bad. When I came out of surgery he said it was clean and that they had to take 30 percent of it out. ![]() He was great and told me he’d treat it like it was his own knee. He’s got pictures of Magic in his office and he’s worked on Orel Hershiser. My doctor used to be the Rams and Lakers doctor. I wasted a bunch of time before I finally got an MRI. I’m also looking to draw off that, too, in coming back from my knee injury. I think it takes synergy of all those different pieces to get going again and we definitely have some of that. No matter what anyone was doing, there were a lot of examples of dedication and motivation. It’s not necessarily that he’s going to be the next ultrarunning star, but I’ve always thought that the main reason there was so much success was because we all fed off each other. That’s not just a sub-four-minute mile, that’s super fast. I also have a kid, Eric Avila, who runs for Hoka, that ran a 3:56 mile last year. I have a couple runners coming back to work that are ex-SOU grads who’ve shown a lot of potential. We’ve still got people like David Laneywho’s living here because he loves the area and it’s a good place to train. I think Timothy Olson coming on the scene, running his first 50 miler in 2010, and then winning Western States 100 shortly thereafter proves anything can happen with a little bit of passion and the right elements thrown together. Koerner : Some of it’s fallen off maybe, but we still seem to attract those people who are interested in getting into the ultra scene and we still have a lot of fast people here. The press has died down, as it does, but is Ashland and your store still a hotbed for the next big ultrarunner? ![]() IRunFar : A few years ago, Ashland, Oregon was in the news a lot as a running Mecca, or a petri dish, if you will, for running success. Hal Koerner running the 2014 Speedgoat 50k pre-knee surgery. ![]()
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