We can’t all be together in Kona this year for Ironman Week, but we can still bring you Breakfast with Bob Kona Edition, just virtually this year. Enjoy the interviews for Day 10. Sam Long Sam Long is only 24 years old but he has already finished 13 Ironman races and in 2019 he won…
We can’t all be together in Kona this year for Ironman Week, but we can still bring you Breakfast with Bob Kona Edition, just virtually this year. Enjoy the interviews for Day 9. Terenzo Bozzone Terenzo Bozzone took sixth in Kona in 2017, his best finish ever on The Big Island, and followed that up…
Their first meeting came after the 1972 Olympics. At those games in Munich, America’s young gun, Steve Prefontaine, took fourth place in the Olympic 5000 meters while New Zealand’s Rod Dixon took home a bronze in the 1500. For the man called Pre, finishing off the podium was a bitter disappointment. Check that. The guy…
In this awesome two-part interview with running legend Rod Dixon, we chat about everything: from his memory of listening to the classic Jim Ryun vs. Kip Keino finals of the 1500 meter in Mexico City in 1968 on his transistor radio and telling his friends that one day he would be in the Olympics just…
In Part 2 of our classic interview with Rod Dixon, we start out with his move from the track to the roads in the early 1980’s, his amazing come-from-behind win over England’s Geoff Smith at the 1983 New York City Marathon, and his creation of his Kid’s Marathon Program. No one is more dynamic than the amazing…