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Yes, what drove him at first was a misery he barely understood. That, and an intense determination to escape it. But he became a fleet champion, and though he delivered inspirational speeches and patted the backs of the slow and the unsteady, they weren't his people—not really. He was an elite runner, a 2:40 marathoner, an early conqueror of one of the world's most notoriously difficult long-distance races. He was featured in Sports Illustrated, feted by race directors, invited to Antarctica and India to lend his fame to fledgling competitions. How could he possibly empathize with the waddlers and the lopers?
Now they're his favorites. Now, at the beginning of every marathon he enters, he arrives at the starting line at least an hour early and seeks out those hapless athletes who have fastened numbers to the backs of their shirts. They might as well be wearing neon signs that say "First Timer." He smiles at them and helps them move their bibs, and tells them they're in a marathon, not a rodeo. He tells them if anyone asks, they should say they're going for a PR, and they chuckle. That brings him pleasure. He still respects winners, but he loves the stragglers.
Four hours, 20 minutes now and he is finally out of the mountains. He is lean at six feet, 170 pounds, with chiseled cheekbones and short grey hair, a long aquiline nose and gray, deep-set eyes. He runs with neither grace nor obvious joy. He is dragging his right leg, almost dragging the entire right side of his body. In his professional appearances, he exhorts crowds to never, ever quit. He says later that if he saw someone running with his stride, he would advise them to find another sport.
At 4:24:56, he shuffles across the finish line.
"You look fast," he says to every child under 14, and every one of them beams. "I don't have to tell you to have fun," he says to the pregnant runners he encounters. "God, this is a beautiful course!" he says to no one in particular. "I love this course."
VIDEO: Watch Bart's journey to Comrades.
People approach him for autographs. "I want to introduce you to a legend," says one middle-aged man to another. "Are you Bart Yasso?" asks yet another man, and when Yasso says yes, the man says, "You're my hero."
As he limps toward the VIP tent—along with a small stipend, access to the VIP tent is usually part of the package when race directors hire Yasso to motivate their entrants—a 36-year-old woman from Salt Lake City named Carri Lyons stops him.
"Are you Bart Yasso?" she asks him, and he allows that yes, he is, and he asks, isn't this an incredible course, and isn't this an incredible day, and didn't she have a great time on the course? He asks these same questions at every race, and judging by the look in his eyes and the way he leans into his questions and almost quivers as he awaits a response, he's either a great performer or a true believer, or both. Her eyes fill with tears.
"I was diagnosed with cancer a year ago," she says, "and I told myself, I am going to run a marathon today, and that got me through it."
Yasso says that's great, that's really great, and she cries more.
"Two years ago," she says, "we lost our baby son, and when I crossed the finish line, I knew he was in heaven, looking down, saying 'Go, mommy, go.'" She sobs and Bart pats her on the back.
"Seeing you makes my day," she says. "You have made my day."
When she leaves, still sobbing, Yasso settles down with some fruit in the VIP tent, then shakes his head.
"How the hell can I have made her day?" he says. "A woman who's been through so much? How can I have made her day?"
Bart and his wife, Laura, are sitting in a car chugging through the hills of Southeastern South Africa. Driving is a stout Australian with a red-gray beard named Bruce "Digger" Hargreaves, who is talking about pain and death and failure with a great deal of hilarity and passion, much the way a connoisseur of mayhem might reflect on the work of Jack the Ripper.
"I know a lot of people who started the race and have never finished," Hargreaves says, with evident pleasure, to the man who is worried about starting the race and not finishing. "They're gutted, absolutely gutted. They said it's the worst thing that ever happened in their lives."
"Oh," the Yassos say in unison.
It is May 28, just two weeks after the Ogden Marathon. Yasso has not run a step since. In his speeches and writing, he preaches regular workouts and sensible training. He knows he's incapable of that now. In the past year, he has dragged himself through 10 marathons and has not otherwise moved a single step at anything faster than a walk. No morning jogs, no weekend loosening-up, nothing. He ran the marathons because although these days he can have difficulty walking, he knows he needed to do something to prepare for the race in South Africa. It is an event that piqued his curiosity when he was young and healthy, and, as his speed declined and his health deteriorated and his wisdom grew, one that grew into a grand obsession.
There are older and more famous races. There are races hotter, and colder, more mountainous and more crowded, and Yasso has run more of them than nearly any other human. But among runners and running fans, South Africa's Comrades Marathon (which at about 56 miles is more than twice the distance of other marathons) occupies a place among races in the same way that Godzilla occupies a place among flesh-eating dinosaurs.
VIDEO: Watch Bart's journey to Comrades.
"The world's greatest footrace," Runner's World's Amby Burfoot called it in 2007. "The Boston Marathon, the Super Bowl, and the Fourth of July all rolled into one, on acid," says one of the 176 Americans running in the 2010 event. (Apparently that quote has legs; other variations of it making the rounds involve Disney World, the Tour de France, and steroids.) To Yasso it is "the one race that still haunts my dreams."
It was 1982 when someone in the Boston Marathon—he can't remember who—told him that Comrades tested the human spirit in ways that no other race in the world did. Yasso was fit, and just 26 years old, and the notion of testing his spirit was interesting in a theoretical way—in the way that growing old and accepting your limitations might be interesting to a 13-year-old boy. Back then, he thought he'd be able to run Comrades any time he wanted. Years later, much older but still fit, he saw images of wealthy white businessmen helping poor black runners, and black onlookers helping exhausted white runners, and he thought that was moving, especially since Comrades integrated in 1975, and apartheid didn't end until 1994. He had wanted to be part of an event with such a proud historical legacy—but he had other races to run, then, other things to do.
So this is his last chance. He thinks he has one final official race in him. And it will be Comrades.
The Yassos arrived in South Africa four days ago, and Bart thought two or three miles jogging in Cape Town—just to loosen up—would be okay. He couldn't even make it a block.
That was Monday, and now it's Friday. The race is on Sunday.
Hargreaves shifts into low gear as he and the Yassos snake up—and up and up—a hill. Hargreaves tells the Yassos that about 50 percent of the entrants in the race finish at between 11 and 12 hours. He says that at 12 hours (the cutoff time was extended from 11 to 12 hours in 2003) a gun goes off at the stadium where the finish line is located, the runners' entrance is closed, security guards are posted, and inevitably there is much gnashing and wailing and often altercations as individuals desperate to have their names entered in the logs of Comrades finishers try to claw their way in. (Over 12 hours, and it's as if you didn't even run the thing.) That perfervid desire wars with an equally strong impulse to help other runners. In fact, it has long been a custom that if a runner collapses near the stadium, the nearest runners stop, pick her up, and, if need be, carry her over the line.
"That's really cool," says Yasso. "People helping each other."
"They made it an offense in 2003," Hargreaves says.
"Why?" Yasso asks. He thinks it sounds like a nice custom.
"The bloke was laying there," Hargreaves says, with a chuckle, "and four other blokes stopped, and each took a limb and they carried him across the finish line. Turns out he was dead."
"Dead?" Laura asks in a soft voice. She has run 115 marathons and more than 60 ultramarathons, more than her husband, and doesn't scare easily. She was the top master in the 100-mile Western States Endurance Run in 2000, and finished third among women in that event the following year. "Really?"
"That's right," says Hargreaves, with an almost unseemly amount of relish. "So they changed the rules, because they worried that in their eagerness to help, some bloke might kill another bloke by moving him."
"Oh," Laura says.
The Yassos and Hargreaves discuss the glories and fearsomeness of the race—how it weaves and plunges and soars between Durban and Pietermaritzburg, past the Valley of a Thousand Hills. They talk about how the course switches directions almost every year. (This year the course starts in Pietermaritzburg so is a "down" year, though many say the "down" course is more horrifying than the up, and besides, still offers plenty of up.)
VIDEO: Watch Bart's journey to Comrades.
The trio is silent as the car ascends and descends another monster incline, then levels off, for a view of the course. "Look at those hills!" Yasso says, looking out at long, winding climbs. He sounds awed, excited, and nervous. "What are their names?"
"Those little things?" Hargreaves says, with another, almost cruel laugh. "They're not big enough to have names."
"Oh," says Laura.
But Hargreaves is just getting warmed up. If Comrades is a fierce and terrible war between the human spirit and Earth's punishing terrain, then Hargreaves is that conflict's Homer, except more perversely cheerful. "You might be fit," he says. "You might be able to run a 100-K, but if you smash your legs the first part of the course, you won't make it."
This seems to excite Yasso. "There is nothing like it!" he almost shouts. "It's the ultimate race of the human spirit."
Once, when he couldn't even name the source of his anguish, he ran as fast and as hard as he could, and that helped, but not enough. Then he ran smarter, and farther, and that helped, too, but still it wasn't enough. Now he thinks he knows the secret. Now he thinks he understands the key to happiness.
It doesn't involve speed.
Bart Yasso grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the middle child of seven born to George Yasso, a Slovakian immigrant who worked as a foreman at the steel mill and his wife, Rose Marie. Bart's oldest sister, Anna Marie, earned straight A's. The next child, George Jr., received a football scholarship to Hofstra University. Bart was short and skinny "with arms as thin as bamboo reeds." He was cut from his sixth-grade basketball team and, two years later, kicked out of St. Ursula's Catholic school for smoking marijuana. He was, he writes in My Life on the Run: The Wit, Wisdom, and Insights of a Road Racing Icon (Rodale, 2008), "in the eyes of my hardworking Slovakian father, a failure."
In his book, Yasso mentions his little brother who died at 2 years old, and how "I don't remember much from those years, just spending a lot of time in the playroom at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia." As for his inner life and whatever internal agony led him to a troubled and troubling adolescence, he writes: "As best as I can surmise, I was rebelling against my detached father, who mustered affection only for his sons who excelled on the athletic fields...I felt invisible."
He was an indifferent student, with shoulder-length hair. By the time he was 14, he was drinking every day. At 18, he was a community-college dropout, a deliveryman, hauling soap and shampoo to area drug stores, drinking a half case of Pabst Blue Ribbon every night and sucking marijuana smoke from a bong. He wouldn't fall asleep until long after midnight.
When he was arrested for trying to buy marijuana from a man who turned out to be an undercover agent, Yasso's father, who hadn't called him by name for years—he referred to Bart as "Alice Cooper"—stopped speaking to him altogether. "My status as the black sheep of the family was secure," he writes. He stopped smoking pot because he was frightened of going to jail, but "to compensate I ...drank more. Much more."
VIDEO: Watch Bart's journey to Comrades.
He woke up with hangovers, and kept drinking. He passed out, and kept drinking. When he was 22, a close friend stumbled out of a bar and was hit by a car. At the hospital, Yasso looked at his friend, in a coma, then considered his life. He kept drinking.
He drank to ease the pain of a disapproving father, and to lower the volume of the yammering voice inside his skull, the one that said he wasn't an athlete, he wasn't worthy, he would never be worthy. He drank because the voice hissed that he was a failure, and because he hated being a failure. Eventually, he drank because that's who he was: a drinker.
In his PowerPoint presentations and numerous interviews, Yasso is quick with a laugh line and an inspiring platitude concerning the varied pleasures of exercise. His stories invariably contain rising action, climaxes dramatic and funny, lessons that resonate far beyond the literal tales he tells. When it comes to explaining his own motivation, though, the yammering voice and the ways he has tried to quiet it, he's not as deft.
Here is how he describes his transformation from teenage drunk to nascent running legend: "I stopped binge drinking and let a dog called Brandy...be my savior."
Brandy belonged to Yasso's girlfriend at the time, and when Yasso walked the dog, he noticed the dog seemed happy running. "One day I decided to try it myself. I ran a half mile to a local bar called the Zoo before collapsing on a stool. I downed two beers to celebrate, then walked home."
Soon he was running three miles every morning before work. Pumping his legs was putting distance between the black sheep he had been and the man he wanted to become. But he didn't see that at the time. At the time, he simply ran. He had no interest in competing—he was Alice Cooper, he was the "runt," he was the nonathletic Yasso—but his big brother George challenged him. Little brother thought he was a runner? Then why didn't he test himself against some real runners? No? Was he scared? Was he too slow? Finally, Bart relented and joined George at the Moore Township 10-K in 1980. When the gun went off, the Yassos shot to the front of the pack. Bart finished the first mile in 5:20. Maybe he wasn't such a runt after all. At mile two, he almost puked. He finished far behind George, "thinking I had failed. I was humiliated, humbled, and hurting." The voice again.
He signed up for another race three weeks later. He did it because he wanted to beat his big brother. He did it because he wanted to stop hurting. Only later did he suspect that he might have done it to win his father's love, to quiet the voice inside.
The aimless, invisible deliveryman picked up a copy of The Complete Book of Running. The community-college dropout studied articles about pacing and interval training and stretching. The boozer went on the wagon. Three weeks later, at a 10-K in Easton, Pennsylvania, he defeated his brother.
"I had purpose, and I embraced it," he writes.
What he didn't understand was that the pain of running was beginning to replace the pain of being ignored and unloved. What he didn't understand was that he had developed an enormous capacity for enduring emotional distress, and that somehow that had translated to an equally capacious tolerance for grueling corporeal hardship. What he didn't understand was that he would spend the next decades seeking out more and more punishing physical challenges, and that those challenges would change him in ways he could never imagine—and still doesn't totally comprehend.
VIDEO: Watch Bart's journey to Comrades.
In 1981, the year after he first ran a 10-K, he finished a marathon in 3:13. Two months later, he ran a 3:07. At 25, he decided he would test himself at the most famous marathon he had ever heard of—the Boston Marathon. He would need to shave 17 minutes off his fastest effort to qualify. The runt started lifting weights. He increased his weekly mileage—60 by then—to 90 and added 20-mile Saturday runs. In the fall of 1981, at the Philadelphia Marathon, needing to run 2:50, he finished at 2:50:56.
His father was at the finish line. "You can do better," he said. "You're going to have to step it up."
At the Boston Marathon, he ran as fast as he could, as smart as he could, and he finished in 2:59. His parents were waiting for him at the finish line. His mother hugged him. "Where the hell were you?" his father said. "We didn't see you."
"I gave it my best effort," Yasso said. "Sometimes you have to be happy with that."
"I thought I told you, step it up," his father said.
Did his father think that would break his son? Did he think it would help him? It didn't matter. Bart was already a black belt in the art of enduring assaults to his body and soul. He could take it. He would take it.
The next year he ran Boston again, a full 19 minutes faster than he had the year before, and he called his father afterward.
"Did you win?" his father asked.
No, Bart said.
"You need to train harder."
He did. He trained and he trained. Agony wasn't to be feared. Anguish wasn't an entirely bad thing. Pain was a tool. He didn't say that then. He might not have thought it. But he ran harder, and faster, and he sought out longer and tougher events.
He added bicycling to his training, and he won the 1987 U.S. National Biathlon Association Long Course Championship. Sports Illustrated called. His father told Bart he was proud, and that was nice, but it didn't change his childhood, didn't change the reality of his life, didn't silence the yammering voice inside. "My father and I never really got along," he says now. "George was more of a father to me."
When he was 31, in 1987, he started working at Runner's World as a liaison between the magazine and race directors, and by 1989, he had run 40 marathons. In 1989, he ran the Badwater Ultramarathon, a 146-mile slog across Death Valley and up Mount Whitney, five times farther than he had ever raced.
He had used drugs and alcohol to ease his pain, and then he had replaced his emotional suffering with the physical challenges of long-distance competition. He could take it all.
VIDEO: Watch Bart's journey to Comrades.
It was terrible, and brutal, and wonderful. He wanted more.
He became known as Badwater Bart. Overcoming a fear of public speaking, he became an in-demand celebrity performer. But it wasn't just race directors around the country calling him, it was race directors around the world. He ran in India and Africa. He considered the race in South Africa again—the one that made mere marathons seem like childish larks, and he thought, someday, when he wasn't so busy. He had all the time in the world. He ran at a nudist camp and he organized a race for recovering drug addicts. Neither their rough backgrounds nor the yammering voices in their heads had stopped them from working toward meaningful lives. He felt a bond with them.
Life had thrown a lot of things at him, too, but he had endured them all, had used them to grow faster and stronger. And then, there was something he couldn't beat with sheer willpower. In 1991, after the Lake Waramaug 50-miler in Connecticut, he could barely get out of bed. He thought it was the flu. He went to a doctor who told him to rest up. Weeks later, he went back and the doctor performed some tests and told him he had Lyme disease, and put him on a course of oral antibiotics.
Yasso stepped it up. He organized races; he raced 10-Ks, and marathons, and ultras. Those were his glory years, from 1991 to 1997. He rode his bike 25 miles to work, and 25 miles back, except on Thursdays. That's when he covered the same course on foot. "Running is good," he says, referring to that period of his life. "Life is good. Job is good. It's all good."
He knew—and knows—that part of his good fortune was luck. "By some genetic twist," he writes, "I had been given a body that was indefatigable."
It was exactly that apparent invulnerability to exhaustion that almost proved his undoing.
It was June 1997, and he was six miles from the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, on the third day of a four-day group trek up the mountain. The previous week he had flown 12 hours from New York City to Cairo with a friend, and while in that city had awakened in his hotel room sweating profusely and shaking with chills. "I did what I always do when I'm feeling out of sorts," he writes. "I went for a run."
He felt better afterward—he always did—and after flying to Nairobi, then riding a bus for eight hours into Tanzania, he started hiking. The morning of the second day, he had a hard time breathing, and his legs burned. He blamed the altitude—9,000 feet. The next morning, his legs hurt worse, and he had developed a rash on his arms and chest. He kept going. The third day, the vision in his right eye was blurry, and then he couldn't close it. When he got out of bed, he pitched over. The right side of his face was paralyzed. After a nine-mile trudge to the bottom of the mountain, and a cab ride to a one-room concrete outpost where steel bars covered the pharmacy, and another eight-hour bus ride, he ended up in a Nairobi hospital. His fever was back, "one eyelid was frozen open, and the right side of my face drooped. The glands in my throat were so swollen that I hadn't eaten anything for three days."
A doctor at the hospital told Yasso that he had Bell's palsy, which causes facial paralysis, but the doctor had no idea what had caused it. He recommended that the runner return to the United States "as soon as possible." At the Nairobi Airport, an ophthalmologist in the ticket line suggested Yasso tape his eye shut, so, with Scotch tape covering much of his face, Yasso flew eight hours to Cairo, then 12 to New York City. He put on his headphones and listened to Bruce Springsteen most of the way.
VIDEO: Watch Bart's journey to Comrades.
After a quick stop at the New York City satellite offices of Runner's World and a 90-minute bus ride home, Bart was met by his brother George, who drove him to a hospital. There, he learned the truth. It was Lyme again, and it "had advanced...because I had waited too long before receiving medical attention. My high pain threshold was the culprit."
He returned home the next day. Surely he would slow down now. Surely he would ponder life at a less driven pace. Three days after leaving the hospital, he rode his bike 25 miles to work.
The next year, at age 43, he won his first marathon, Tennessee's Smoky Mountain. The same year, he ran a 2:42 at the California International Marathon. Life was good.
The first decade of the new century has been great, and terrible. He met Laura in 1993, at a meeting of the Road Runners Club of America. They stayed in touch, until 2000 when he emailed her that it had been a goal of his to set the master's record at the Western States, but of late he had changed it. Now, he wrote, "I want to sleep with the master's winner."
She e-mailed back, "I like your goals." They started dating, and were married a year later. But around the same time, George told his younger brother that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. In 2003, at age 51, George was dead. "He gave me the tools," Bart says. "He put me on the right path." In 2006, Bart had another bout of Lyme, worse than ever. His knees swelled up "bigger than softballs." A doctor ordered an MRI, and it showed damage in the right knee, the result of so many years of Lyme disease, as well as his brutal regimen.
"Your running days are over," the doctor said.
They weren't, of course. He didn't run as far, or as hard, but he ran. He ran through his father's death in 2006, and his induction into the Running USA Hall of Champions in 2007. He ran through his mother's death in 2008. He ran through six months of intravenous antibiotics with a shunt taped to his arm.
He has managed to complete a few marathons in the last four years, but they have been hard and they hurt, and no amount of stepping it up, or taking it, has changed that. He doesn't dwell on the pain, or his body's degeneration, but he mentions the Lyme disease in the talks he gives at the races that hire him.
And a funny thing has happened since he started doing that.
As much as people had always loved him, as much as they responded to his message of working through difficulties and facing challenges head on, and beating them, of never backing down, of taking it, of stepping it up...they responded even more when they heard a man talk about accepting his limitations, a man, who, when he realized he couldn't run fast anymore, ran slow and found joy in that. He had always been the guy who could beat anything. It never occurred to him that the part of him that couldn't take it—the part of him that was most human—was the best part of all.
Yasso is not one to indulge regrets, but even he admits that he sometimes wishes he had run Comrades right after his last Lyme diagnosis, when he was hurting but still enjoying the occasional easy four-and five-mile runs. Another part of him wishes he had run Comrades before his first bout of Lyme disease, back in the heyday of Badwater Bart. But the battered part of him, the wise part, knows that he has another opportunity, and it's now. He and Laura pay the Comrades entry fee in December 2009.
VIDEO: Watch Bart's journey to Comrades.
It is Sunday, May 30, 4:30 a.m., dark and chilly, and a full moon hangs in the winter sky as more than 23,000 runners mass in the center of Pietermaritzburg, high in the hills of South Africa, in the heart of KwaZulu-Natal Province. There are greetings, and shuffling, and among many runners, thousand-yard stares that seem equal parts determination and terror. Yasso spent last night in the dorm of a boarding school a half-mile away, along with other members of the running team sponsored by World Vision, a global Christian organization that combats hunger and poverty and provides relief in the aftermath of natural disasters. All the runners, including Bart, are raising money for local children.
The race has attracted elite runners from all over the world, including last year's winner, Stephen Muzhingi, from Zimbabwe, and the female Russian identical twins, Elena and Olesya Nurgalieva, who between them have won the race six times. There are other celebrities, too. Among the World Vision team is Josh Cox, the U.S. 50-K record holder and a favorite here. Also running for World Vision is U.S. Navy doctor Andy Baldwin, who starred on ABC's The Bachelor (weirdly, Cox had a part on The Bachelorette a few years earlier), and Paul Martin, running with a prosthetic leg, who has competed in 10 Ironman Triathlons and holds a world record in that event for leg amputees.
But it is Yasso who is interviewed over the loudspeaker at the starting line. It is Yasso who, at a dinner two nights earlier, was introduced as "the Nelson Mandela of American running." At the starting line he doesn't talk about pain, or how he has spent a life stepping it up and is now readying himself to step down. He talks about what an honor it is to be here, about how the race is a triumph of the human spirit, about how happy he is—finally—to be part of this great event. Then he sings. He joins what starts as a handful of voices, then more, until it fills the entire square, the entire sky. The melody is called "Shosholoza," and it was originally sung by laborers from Zimbabwe coming home from the mines of South Africa. Its beat and lyrics mimic the gentle and insistent rhythm of a passenger car, and many South Africans refer to it as "the train song." It is a melody of longing and hope, a piercing, keening, almost unbearably melancholic and determined anthem. When sung by 23,000 runners, black and white, fleet and slow, under a pale moon, the awe people express for this race makes perfect sense.
Many of the runners tear up; whether thinking of this country's terrible past and its wrenching changes, or of how much pain they are about to endure as individuals, or at their profound pleasure at sharing such a challenge, it's hard to say. All of the World Vision runners cry, including Bart.
At 5:30 a.m., the race begins.
He is sure that he won't need to bear down until he is well into the race; he is confident that the crowd, and the spirit of Comrades, will carry him for at least 10 miles before he'll have to deal with the pain.
VIDEO: Watch Bart's journey to Comrades.
Four miles into the race, though, he is hurting. He is forced to walk up an unnamed hill. He knows that if he gives in, he won't finish. He also knows that if he doesn't listen to the pain, if he ignores it as he has so often in the past, he might not finish, either. He needs to find the place between stepping up and giving up. He has hurt worse. He had been freezing and shaking in Cairo. He had been nearly blind in Africa. He can do this. He doesn't need Digger Hargreaves to tell him how crushing a DNF would be.
At five miles, near Polly Shortts hill, the first named descent of the down year, he starts running again. He runs past waving farmers and cows and horses grazing in the fields. He runs past huge crowds along the road, and huger crowds in the village of Camperdown. He runs, still hurting, along Cato Ridge and through undulating grasslands and through the barren stretch of Harrison Flats, until he is almost at the second hill, the murderous climb called Inchanga.
Other runners are hurting, too, and seeing them struggle helps Yasso put his struggles in perspective. What are his problems, compared to the problems of the people watching the race, the poor South African children who live in villages where clean water is a luxury, where a pair of shoes is precious?
He thinks of Paul Martin and his prosthetic leg. He thinks of Carri Lyons in Utah and her son she had heard from heaven, and of all the people who have approached him at this and other races and that makes his pain lessen, and it makes him wonder, yet again, how they could be inspired by him?
And then he sees the children, scores of them, many on crutches and in wheelchairs. They are the residents of the Ethembeni School for Handicapped Children, a landmark on the course, a place where Comrades participants often break down and weep. That's what Yasso does.
Runners appear alongside him, pose for photographs. Others—who have no idea who he is, how fast he used to be, how he missed the chance at this race when he could have actually run it, how much of his life he has spent taking it—comment how lucky he is, how lucky they are, how magical the event is. They thank him for coming, all the way from the United States!
People pass him, and the hills that aren't even hills get steeper and more punishing, and Yasso remembers the days he ran loose, and healthy, and free, and he thinks of himself now. He thinks of his 2:40 marathons, and his Badwater exploits, and his place now, surrounded by plodders, "at the back end of a career, surrounded by fat rugby players." He can't remember ever being happier.
At mile 20, Yasso isn't paying much attention to how he's feeling. He's busy chatting with other racers, people who are just grateful to be here, who are focused on more important things than speed or finishing times.
VIDEO: Watch Bart's journey to Comrades.
At 25 miles, shortly after he marvels at the misty Valley of a Thousand Hills to his north, he checks his watch and he sees the folly of too much gratitude. He's only 35 minutes ahead of the cutoff time. That's not nearly a large enough margin of safety. He needs to pick up his pace.
Somehow, he does. He descends to the village called Drummond, then climbs out of it to ascend Botha's Hill, and he's confident he'll finish in time, and he might even beat 11 hours, "a dream of mine." At the top of Botha's Hill, he sees the pace group—the "bus"—which aims to finish under 11 hours. It is massive, more than 1,000 people, and he thinks how great it would be to end his final race with an hour to spare. All he has to do is get to the bus. He can do it. He's done more difficult things. He just has to step it up. He pushes himself, and immediately his leg buckles. He can't do it. He can't take it.
Laura has finished, and she waits in the International Tent and watches every runner cross—most stumble across—the finish line. Eleven hours, and no Bart. Eleven-ten, and no Bart. Eleven-thirty, and still no Bart. At 11:33:38, she sees him. She stares at her husband, who is hurting, dragging his foot, about to give up what he loves most. She knows he would have liked to come in under 11 hours, in this, his dream so long deferred. Yet when she looks at his face again, he is smiling. Such a radiant smile.
Afterward, they limp together from the stadium through the warm Durban evening to their hotel, which is teeming with runners, crying, laughing, passing tales of the Fourth of July and steroids and Disney World and the Super Bowl on acid. They skip the World Vision Team Dinner—all the members finished, and take turns drinking beer from Paul Martin's prosthetic leg, while the waiters sing "Shosholoza"—but spend a few hours celebrating at the hotel bar. Eventually they limp to the elevator, and as they do, a woman from Johannesburg asks the couple how they did in the big race. "My wife beat me by an hour and eight minutes,"' Bart says.
"True," Laura says, "but I have cartilage in my knees, and they still bend."
It is the morning after and Yasso has limped to the elevator again, and up to the hotel rooftop. Everyone in the hotel is limping. He sits in the sunlight, the ocean behind him, his Moby-Dick of an ultramarathon captured, if not killed.
Running saved him. It gave him a path out of despair. It brought him his father's love, and it taught him how to love his father back. He says all of this on the rooftop of the hotel, in the warm South African winter morning. And the pain? "Oh, yeah, I was hurting," he says of the time his right eye was paralyzed open on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro. "I thought it was the 24-hour flu," he says of the time he woke burning in Cairo, then couldn't stop his teeth from chattering, then was burning again. "I was sure it would pass," he says of the first month he felt the odd, crushing fatigue of Lyme.
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When Yasso's at home (he travels 200 days a year), most nights he and Laura take a Jacuzzi, have a glass of wine (after 20 years of abstinence, Bart drinks occasionally), watch Letterman until Bart falls asleep on the couch. Then Laura will wake him and they'll go upstairs. Their cat, Mojave, won't ascend the steps until Bart has done so. It often takes him two minutes to get up the single flight.
His joints—particularly his right knee—ache fairly constantly, sometimes worse than other times. He wakes up singing, every day. "A different song every morning," Laura says. How can he be anything but happy? He ran farther, and faster, than he ever imagined he could. He ran on other continents and won medals everywhere. In his living room he has a life-size wooden Masai sculpture bedecked with medals, but even more are scattered far and wide, in the hands and on the thatched walls of children and teenagers to whom he gave them. The young man who was afraid to talk in front of groups became a gregarious traveler who met so many people, touched so many people, and that has been the greatest gift of all. He is starting to understand that.
Over the years, thousands have shared with him their private pain. "I became the running whisperer," he says. The halting and the shy, the sick and the blind, the grieving and the anxious, they all unburdened themselves to Bart, and he gladly accepted the weight. They gave him their pain not in spite of his struggles but because of them. His enormous tolerance of physical hardship evolved into a psychic capacity to absorb other people's sadness and loss. He's beginning to understand that. And he's beginning to understand that those people weren't just making themselves lighter and freer, they were making him lighter and freer, too.
Yasso is asked what his life would be like had he never started running. Uncharacteristically, the professional enthusiast pauses. Then: "I don't know, and I don't wanna know. But it wouldn't be good, I guarantee that."
After an hour of chatting, Yasso limps back to the elevator, back to his room. He'll stay in Africa another week to take it easy, to sightsee. To watch him drag his leg is to witness a man in a great deal of pain, but one who has finally learned that he doesn't need to step it up anymore, who is beginning to understand that the yammering voice was loud and relentless, but never right.
A man at rest. A man who doesn't have to take it anymore.


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Edited by amphirion, 09 September 2011 - 21:15 PM.
miniature orchids....
Posted 09 September 2011 - 21:12 PM
Posted 09 September 2011 - 21:36 PM
I have only one of these , with 6-7mm flowers, really sweet little tiny thing, and do not even know its name. Do you know its species name?
Posted 09 September 2011 - 23:56 PM
Upcoming Shows:
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#24 Guest_Andreas Eils_*
Posted 10 September 2011 - 00:52 AM
Yes, in this thread a lot of nice diamonds of the flora have been shown! Could increase my appetite for orchids...*sigh*
Many greetings
Posted 10 September 2011 - 05:36 AM
@andreas: now, now, now....that's not playing fair! wistuba doesn't go on tours selling nepenthes and heliamphora in the States! why do you europeans get all the fun!?
Posted 10 September 2011 - 09:07 AM
If these guys are in Ecuador, does that mean that ordering from them is out of the question for a Brit?
If you are looking for orchids this vendor goes to shows all over the world. Ill post a link to their upcoming shows, and also to their species list. Ive bought plants off of them many time, and each time I have been more than satisfied.
Upcoming Shows:
Species List:
Posted 10 September 2011 - 11:13 AM
that's not playing fair! wistuba doesn't go on tours selling nepenthes and heliamphora in the States! why do you europeans get all the fun!?
Hey - and you Americans have all those great plants just growing in your backyards !
Thanks for the ID
Posted 10 September 2011 - 19:13 PM
1) have the proper paperwork and import permits to receive the plant directly....
2) wait until they tour in your country, where they ship it to a localized contact who distributes it to you (like Wistuba in the states)
3) you can directly pick up your plants from the flower/garden show that they are touring in....
at least....that's how it works here....
@martin: you mean sarracenia, and vfts? lol....
1) you guys by FAR have your sarracenia collections down to a T when it comes to location data, forms, and such...sure the US is probably the main propagator of outstanding hybrids, but i can only think of meadowview as being the main contender...
2) yeah, we've got VFTs in the wild, but you guys are the ones that are making those freaky TC clones that everybody wants....
3) petiolaris drosera, tuberous drosera, south american drosera, orchidoides utricularia, heliamphora, nepenthes--your side of the pond commercially propagates all these coveted rare species of carnivorous plants like hotcakes....the US has NOTHING, and the only way to get these plants is by importing them from you guys! NOT FAIR!
Edited by amphirion, 10 September 2011 - 19:23 PM.
Posted 10 September 2011 - 20:23 PM
Yes - and Darlingtonia ... how far away was your next location?
@martin: you mean sarracenia, and vfts? lol....
And Heliamphora ...I have heard once, that they all come from the Americas...same as the orchidioides Utricularia...
the US has NOTHING, and the only way to get these plants is by importing them from you guys!
hmm - sounds like a promising business idea...
Posted 13 September 2011 - 18:22 PM
but i digress ;) i have a few more orchids to share with you all....then there will probably be only 2 or three more species that will bloom for me by the time winter approaches...
platystele beatricis:
pleurothallis herpestes:
lepanthes nycteris:
masdevallia limax:
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Posted 13 September 2011 - 18:39 PM
Posted 13 September 2011 - 19:00 PM
The L. nycteris looks like an alien, and that Pleuro is a beauty too. It is fascinating how nature can come up with these things. Your L. telipogoniflora bring back memories to a rather nice specimen that I had years ago. I got D. laevifolium also, but they don't look as good as your right now.
Posted 13 September 2011 - 20:53 PM
@christerb: thanks very much!
#34 Guest_Andreas Eils_*
Posted 14 September 2011 - 14:39 PM
BTW: The Pleurothallis with herpes looks very beautiful despite its "illness" ;-)
Yes, Martin is actually wrong! You Americans have a good reason to be envious about us Europeans. Wanna know why? All your nice boggy meadows full of impressive Sarracenia pitchers will disappear soon as will the spectacular places with thousands of Darlingtonias due to lack of protection of these areas... DUCK and RUN...
I´m just a cynic, don´t hate me!
I really hope you´ll manage to keep your nice habitats of CPs!
And please keep on showing us your orchids!
Posted 05 October 2011 - 18:41 PM
i have a handful of pictures of the remaining plants in bloom. please enjoy!
lepanthes martineae:
pleurothallis ornata:
platysteele ximenae:
trisetella gemmata:
a masdevallia limax update:
Edited by amphirion, 05 October 2011 - 18:47 PM.
Posted 05 October 2011 - 19:37 PM
I recognise that pic... is that the one you posted on Terraforums where I identified all the plants
Posted 06 October 2011 - 18:37 PM
Posted 19 December 2011 - 06:43 AM
masdevallia nidifica:
ceratostylis philippinensis?
stelis flexuosa
stelis/pleurothalis mystax
i know i posted this one before, but i cant get enough of it. so abstract shaped with bold contrasting colors. cant be beat!
a developing orchid(ioides): utricularia jamesoniana
Posted 21 December 2011 - 21:27 PM
scaphosepalum swertifolium
Posted 22 December 2011 - 01:15 AM
a masdevallia limax update:
very interesting, I see how it got its species name!


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With All of His Advertisers Gone, Rush Limbaugh Becomes A Right Wing Welfare Bum
By: Jason EasleyMay. 10th, 2013
Rush Limbaughs advertisers have deserted him, and the only way his radio remains financially sustainable is by being bankrolled by right wing organizations. In short, Rush is now taking handouts.
After the news that 48 of Cumulus Medias top 50 advertisers have requested that their ads no longer appear on Limbaughs show, the other shoe dropped. Media Matters reported that, Rush Limbaughs syndicator, Premiere Radio Networks, is the single largest independent contractor to the Heritage Foundation according to their latest 990 filing with the IRS, receiving $2,236,555 from the think tank. With advertisers fleeing his show, and as a result radio companies suffering major losses, the fiscal sponsorship of the conservative movement is now fiscally critical
Without wingnut welfare, which has also included sponsorships from FreedomWorks, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannitys shows would not be financially viable.
Conservatives argue that the free market should be left alone. They make entire careers out of keeping the government out of the free market. They oppose any government regulation or taxation because it interferes with the free market, but when the free market decided that Rush Limbaughs show was not financially sustainable they threw their ideology out the window, and started subsidizing Limbaughs program.
What Limbaugh is doing is even worse than welfare. Rush Limbaugh and his fellow right wing talk show hosts are engaging in payola. Groups like FreedomWorks and the Heritage Foundation spend millions of dollars a year paying the likes of Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Rush Limbaugh to talk up their efforts without disclosing to their audiences that they are being paid to do so.
Right wing talk radio is a pay to play business, and thanks to the advertiser boycott, payola is the only thing keeping Rush Limbaughs show financially afloat.
The advertiser boycott has been so effective that Rush Limbaugh is living off of corporate welfare.
Rush Limbaugh, who once suggested that poor people shouldnt be allowed to vote, cant generate enough advertising revenue for his show to financially sustain itself. The glory days are over for Limbaugh. He is now dependent on the generosity of his fellow ideologues. The same right wingers who want to defund PBS are secretly slipping Rush Limbaugh cash under the table.
If Big Bird should be subjected to the whims of the free market, Rush Limbaugh should too.
Thanks to the advertiser boycott, Rush Limbaughs show is in worse shape than anybody thought.


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Signing Xavier Nady is a smart short-term risk for the Cubs.
One-year, $3.3M with incentives is a little pricier than signing Johnny Gomes or re-signing Reed Johnson, but Nady's a solid all-around ballplayer, well above average coming off the bench, and durable enough to start if need be.
I have little concern he won't rebound from his second Tommy John surgery, especially as a bench player.
Still, Nady's best value to the Cubs may come in late July near the trade-deadline. The Cubs' outfield situation includes Soriano signed through 2014, Byrd through 2012 and Fukudome through 2011 — a good season for Nady and he's still on the outs come 2011.
Furthering this scenario for Nady, who by the way, was the Yankees' starting right fielder in 2009, he's likely to seek more money, a multi-year deal, and more playing time beyond this year — the Cubs will almost certainly lose him.
Good year or bad year for Nady, it remains a favorable situation for Chicago.
If he's good you've got a valuable trade piece. If he stinks, you wash your hands of him. Each side is a winner, and that's always the best deal.


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The Kisutu Resident Magistrate's Court is set to deliver its judgment on the 2.5bn/- theft case facing former Tanzania's envoy to Italy, Prof Ricky Mahalu, and former counsellor with the same embassy, Grace Martin, on July 11,this year.
Presiding principal resident magistrate Ilvin Mgeta told the court that both the prosecution and defence sides had already got proceedings of the case by soft copy.
The prosecution is led by State attorney Vincent Haule and assisted by Ponsiano Lukosi while the defence comprises advocates Mabere Marando, Alex Mgongolwa and Beatus Malima.
Before the verdict date was set, both sides were required to deliver last submissions on June 11 this year.
Magistrate Mgeta adjourned the case to June 14, this year, when it comes up for mention and July 11 for judgment. Early last weak the defence side closed its testimony after their last witness, Martin, testified.
On May 7, this year history was made after retired President Benjamin Mkapa appeared in court in Dar es Salaam as a defence witness.
The unprecedented appearance and the testimony adduced by the former president is widely viewed as an interesting twist to the high-profile case.
Led by defence counsel Alex Mgongolwa, Mkapa told magistrate Mgeta that the chancery's purchase had his government's blessing.
"The government blessed the purchase of the building …I was informed about that and I did not oppose it," he said, adding that he was notified that payment would be made by way of deposits in two accounts.
Counsel Mgongolwa then asked the witness how come the first prosecution witness, former Chief Secretary Martin Lumbanga, denied knowing about the purchase.
"I am surprised that he (Lumbanga) said so. What I know is that the purchase was approved," said Mkapa.
Mgongolwa went on to ask Mkapa to tell the court why it so happened that he knew about the transaction but the Chief Secretary didn't. Responding, Mkapa said that might be possible "but it is very quite inconceivable".
He explained that, as much as he knew, two ministries – Works and Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development – were involved in the evaluation of the said building.
Mahalu and Grace are charged with conspiring to steal from the government of Tanzania on diverse dates and places within Italy, Tanzania and other places in the world.
On the second count, it is alleged that on September 23, 2002 at Tanzania's embassy in Italy, being persons in the service of the Tanzanian government, knowingly and with intent to deceive, the two used payment voucher number D2/9 dated 23.9.2002 containing false particulars to purchase the Tanzanian embassy building in Rome at euro 3,098,741.58.
On the third count, it is alleged that the accused on October 1, 2002 at the Tanzanian embassy in Italy, used a contract dated 1.9.2002 to show that the purchase price was euro 3,098,741.58 and that the vendor of the building had received the money.
On the fourth and fifth counts, it is alleged that on the same date and place, the accused stole euros 2,065,827.60, causing the government to suffer a pecuniary loss.


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- Title
- Obsessive compulsive disorder in the DSM
- Author(s)
- Moulding, Richard; Nedeljkovic, Maja; Kyrios, Michael
- Abstract
- Descriptions of individuals showing symptoms consistent with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder are present in texts dating back many centuries. Psychoanalysts considered such symptoms to be a prominent demonstration of dynamic forces at play, with compulsions a defense against anxiety-provoking impulses. Such formulations were a strong influence on the original DSM classification of OCD as a neurotic (later anxiety) disorder. Later editions have removed such aetiological considerations, but retained the classification of OCD. Moving towards the DSM-V, a number of issues are being revisited, including whether symptom subgroups are both defmable and useful, whether compulsive hoarding should be considered a subtype of OCD, and whether OCD should continue to be considered an anxiety disorder, or whether it should be reclassified as an Obsessive-Compulsive spectrum disorder along with disorders with similar symptomatology or aetiology. This chapter briefly reviews the arguments being made on these issues, and also considers cultural influences on the presentation and diagnosis of OCD.
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- A critical introduction to DSM / Greg Murray (ed.), chaper 10, pp. 151-166
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This blog is third in a series in which I take a look at four films in our collection which deal with illegal immigration, first and foremost from the perspective of those who undertake the journey, but also from viewpoint of their family, the communities they immigrate to and border patrol officers charged with repelling them from entering the country. Sin Nombre, Which Way Home, Mojados: Through the Night and El Inmigrante are all films that take a look at illegal immigration in greater depth and with a greater diversity of opinions than can be included in the typical media coverage of the debate. If you have a desire to take a closer look at the hows and whys of illegal border crossing, I urge you to check out one or all of these films.
After I watched Which Way Home, I looked to see what other films we had on the subject. Mojados tells the story of three would be illegals attempting to cross the river and then the vast expanse of Texan dessert beyond. While they are also from the far South ends of North America, these travelers have at least enough resources to do without the hardship of balancing on top of a rocking train car and simply say good bye to their families before jumping in a taxi and heading north. They are dropped off in a nondescript area along the side of the Rio Grande/ Rio Bravo. Then they hide in the bushes and wait for night fall and it is from that point that all their troubles begin.
At 64 minutes this is not a very lengthy documentary but I think it delivers a sense of what this portion of the journey entails. There is some criticism aimed at Tommy Davis, the director for not doing more to distinguish the characters from one another and for the jiggling hand held camera work. However, of the films described in this blog, it is in my opinion that the director of Mojados has gone through the most pain and effort to bring us the story of his subjects (Though I can't say that without mentioning the two years of research spent with train travelers on the part of director Cary Fukunga or the time he invested with actual members of the much feared Mara Salvatrucha in preparation for Sin Nombre). Mr. Davis is actually making the journey with his subjects as we witness it. He is climbing the same fences, drinking the same bacteria infested water, eating the same molding tortillas and standing through the same freezing dessert nights afraid to sleep for fear of never seeing the sun again. Also included are interviews and accounts of some ranchers who pity the travelers but are also vexed with the damage done to fences and other effects of their passing.
Again, I don't want to give away the fate of these travelers, but rest assured, the endings, inconclusive or unhappy, thoroughly illustrate the desperate act of crossing the border and the likely hood of survival.
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Covers carnivorous sponges as a model for adaptation. Compares similar adaptations between carnivorous plants and carnivorous sponges. Looks at how sponge adaptability informs us about early life forms.
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Ken Tyler is beginning his fourth year as Director of Athletics at the University of Mary Washington. Tyler had an eventful first year in 2012-13, overhauling many aspects of the department, and leading the Eagles to the 2012-13 Capital Athletic Conference all-sports award. In his second year, the Eagles won five CAC Championships, with men's basketball advancing to and hosting the "sweet 16" and "elite eight" rounds of the NCAA Tournament at a sold-out Anderson Center. UMW also hosted its first-ever gala in 2014, with Redskin greats Darrell Green, DeAngelo hall, and Alfred Morris, on a celebratory evening that raised over $40,000 for UMW Athletics.
"I am impressed by Ken's experience, his enthusiasm and his ideas on how to advance our athletic program going forward", says UMW President Richard V. Hurley.
"He has impressive experience and a proven track record of success", says UMW Vice President for Student Affairs Doug Searcy. "His passion for working with both coaches and teams and high level of energy to advance the University will move UMW Athletics forward with purpose and a clear vision for the future."
In just two years at the helm at UMW, Tyler has overseen many changes in the department of athletics, from renovations of the Anderson Center lobby and all athletic offices, created and upgraded the varsity weight room, and created the Student-Athlete Lounge. In addition, he purchased new seating on the lacrosse/field hockey field and acquired Stone House for sole athletic use.
In addition, the department has begun the Eagle Club, with more than 450 members, which raised tens of thousands of dollars through the beginning of an annual gala. This year's premiere event saw Redskins greats Darrell Green, Alfred Morris, and DeAngelo Hall help raise more than $50,000. Green, who was brought on in an administraive role by Tyler, has raised the profile of the department on a national scale.
Other additions Tyler has spearheaded include the addition of a full time strength and conditioning coach, an equipment manager, and splitting the volleyball and softball coaching positions. Tyler has also begun an assistant coach program, which is already at 12 assistants, to aid UMW's coaches and staff. The addition of full-time assistant coaches will begin in 2015-16.
In all, UMW has claimed 12 CAC Championships, seen nine teams advance to NCAA Championship competition, and hosted four NCAA Tournament events on campus in the past two years.
Tyler had been at West Virginia Wesleyan College since July of 2008, overseeing the largest athletic department in the state of West Virginia, with over 500 student-athletes and 19 varsity sports. While in Buckhannon, Tyler's programs swept the President's and Commissioner's Cups for overall athletic excellence in the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference each year of his tenure.
"I am grateful and honored to be the Director of Athletics at the University of Mary Washington," said Tyler. "I want to thank President Hurley, Vice-President Searcy, and all the members of the search committee for this wonderful opportunity. Mary Washington's outstanding academic reputation, combined with its strong and broad-based athletic program, makes this one of the best small-college positions in the country." He added, "Ed Hegmann and the terrific coaching staff have laid a very solid foundation, and I look forward to working with everyone to take the program to the next level. My family and I are excited to join the Eagle family, and I can't wait to get started!"
At WVWC, he added the sport of women's lacrosse and created the position of Director of Compliance and Academic Services, and made facility improvements for department offices, stadium, arena, locker rooms, and baseball, softball, and soccer fields. In addition, he created a student-athlete lounge and academic support area. Other improvements made under Tyler's tenure included the acquisition of a 25-passenger bus with a professional driver to replace coach-driven 15-passenger vans, and the institution of mandatory institutional drug-testing for randomly selected student-athletes.
Tyler's strategic plan included adding full-time assistant coach positions for team sports, and launching a new athletics web site. The success of the programs were immediate, as the football team improved from 1-10 during Tyler's first year to 9-2 in 2010 and 2011, including undefeated records at home both seasons. The men's basketball team went from eight wins in 2010 to 19 wins and the NCAA Tournament in 2011, the second-biggest turnaround in Division II. This winter, the Bobcat women's basketball team finished 23-7, won the program's first-ever WVIAC tournament championship and received the program's first-ever NCAA tournament berth. The 2011-12 men's basketball team finished 22-9, and won Wesleyan's first-ever NCAA tournament game.
With Tyler at the helm, Wesleyan won 22 WVIAC championships. In 2010-11, the Bobcats finished #76 nationally in the Division II Learfield Director's Cup standings, the best finish in school history and tops in the WVIAC. That same year, Wesleyan finished fifth in the nation in student-athletes recognized on the Academic Honor Roll of the Division II Athletic Directors Association. The Bobcats have also been extremely active in community engagement activities.
Tyler served on the Division II Athletic Directors Association (ADA) Board of Directors as the WVIAC representative. He was also the Atlantic Region Chair on the Division II National Men's Basketball Committee. He has served as vice-chair of WVIAC athletic directors and served as chair of the WVIAC Basketball Tournament Committee. He arrived at Wesleyan after a seven-year stay at Shepherd University, where he served as Head Men's Basketball Coach and Assistant Athletic Director.
Prior to his time at Shepherd, Tyler spent six years at Albright (PA) College, serving as the Head Men's Basketball coach and Assistant Director of Athletics. He also had one-year stints as assistant men's basketball coach at East Stroudsburg University (PA), Roanoke (VA) College and James Madison University under legendary coach "Lefty" Driesell.
An aggressive and successful fund raiser, Tyler spearheaded significant facility upgrade campaigns at Shepherd and Albright. At Wesleyan, he launched the Corporate Partner Program, the Letterman's Club, and the Hank Ellis Golf Classic, which raised over $75,000 annually for Wesleyan athletics. Tyler was an active board member in the United Way of the Eastern Panhandle, serving as campaign chairman from 2006-08 and raising over $3 million.
Tyler's career coaching record of 193-157 includes 87-64 at Albright, highlighted by the 1998 conference championship, and 106-93 at Shepherd, a 34-win improvement over the seven year period before he arrived.
Tyler has a growing number of former assistants and players who have gone on to successful careers in coaching, including Justin Namolik, head coach at Shepherd University (WV), Marcus Kahn, head coach at UMW, Chad Myers, head coach at Elev/8 Sports Academy (Fla.); Gene McAteer, head coach at Bridgewater-Raritan HS (NJ), Danley Shank, head coach at Shalom Christian Academy (PA), Duncan Williams, assistant coach at Alderson-Broaddus College (WV), and Fred Lymas, assistant coach at Washington Adventist University (MD). In addition, Tyler hired Jeff Price as the head basketball coach at West Virginia Wesleyan, who is now the head coach at Lynn University; Jim Boone, now the head coach at Delta State, and Patrick Beilein, currently an assistant coach for the Utah Jazz.
Tyler earned a bachelor of arts in history and a master's degree in education from The College of William and Mary. He was a guard on the basketball team at Division I William and Mary, where he played against all-time greats Len Bias and David Robinson.
Tyler is an avid reader and a Civil War enthusiast. An active leader in the community, Tyler is a member of the Rappahannock Rotary Club, and frequently speaks on campus and in the community. He is a member of NACDA, and a member of the NCAA Division III regional men's basketball ranking committee. In winter 2015, he took the reigns as the chair of the Capital Athletic Conference Board of Directors. He and his wife Dawn have two children, son Jordan (17) and daughter Logan (13).


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Posted 15 November 2012 - 09:04 AM
Gower, 34, joined the Broncos for the 2012 season on a two year deal and made 28 appearances for the club in 2012 comprising of 26 Super League games and two Challenge Cup games. He scored four tries and 27 goals in his first season. Gower previously played Rugby League with Penrith Panthers in the NRL and also represented New South Wales and Australia. In 2008 he switched codes to play for French Rugby Union club Bayonne where he remained until the end of 2011, he represented Italy Rugby Union on 13 occasions, for which he is eligible due to his Italian Grandfather.
"We're settled here, I spoke to the club and they were willing to give me another year which was great," said Gower. "Obviously last season was a tough season but we love being here and we've enjoyed it, even though it was a tough grind it's just part of footy. I'm just looking forward to this year. That's the benefit of having a group that's a year older and hopefully we can respond to that and play a lot more consistent football over the entire year. It's fine, pre-season is pre-season, you are here to work and get yourself prepared for the new season, it's always tough, you just have to put the effort in and you'll see the rewards later on. For me it's winning games, if we can win games it just makes life easier and more enjoyable."
London Broncos head coach Tony Rea believes signing Gower is a great sign for the club.
"Craig displays terrific appetite for the game and towards training and preparation," said Rea. "Some people might query signing a player of his age but the fact he played every game apart from one last year is better evidence than his birth certificate. It's not a risk, it's calculated. The evidence is he is playing."
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Posted 15 November 2012 - 10:15 AM
It's something the club has done in the past (Howell springs immediately to mind) and been bitten on the bum because of it. There's just no need to take the risk.
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Posted 15 November 2012 - 10:26 AM
I don't see this as particularly good news for the club, but it is typical of Tony Rea and brings back memories of his decision-making when coach and CEO previously. Gower was good last season, and probably will be this year too, but he is already 34 and cannot train after a game. How on earth can the club know what kind of condition he will be in come the end of next season? He's already under contract for 2013 so why the need to rush in and give him another year on top of that?
It's something the club has done in the past (Howell springs immediately to mind) and been bitten on the bum because of it. There's just no need to take the risk.
I ask because I don't know: developing a coaching role for him?
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Posted 15 November 2012 - 10:49 AM
I ask because I don't know: developing a coaching role for him?
It's possible, but I assume they'd have mentioned it if that was the plan. Wigan did with Sean O'Loughlin's new contract and he's only 31.
Jean Roque, Calendrier-revue du Racing-Club Albigeois, 1958-1959
Posted 15 November 2012 - 11:12 AM
He certainly took some stick from the opposition last year.
Big gamble which I hope pays off, as he makes a real difference.
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As part of his gun violence initiative, President Obama wants to speed up final implementation of a law, requiring insurers to cover mental health and regular medical services the same way. Under the 2008 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, group insurers would be forbidden from charging higher co-payments, deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses for services like therapy or substance abuse treatment. Under the Affordable Care Act, the parity law will now apply to everyone. Jay Field has this look at how these coming changes will effect mental health care in Maine.
Tri-County Mental Health Services is the oldest community mental health center in the state. Having the words "Tri-County" in its name has become something of a misnomer - the Lewiston-based organization, founded more than 60 years ago, now serves clients in seven counties with a staff of around 500 psychiatrists, therapists, nurses, nurses practioners, and others.
Catherine Ryder is Tri-County's executive director. "We see over 10,000 people per year and we have about 500 crisis contacts a month. So it's a fairly large agency," she says.
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"You know, we work really hard with the individual's insurance provider, sometimes brokering individual contracts for folks, if it's not covered under they're existing plan, based on the need and the fact that we could prevent, for example, a hospitalization with an outpatient intervention," Ryder says. "And many insurance companies have been very responsive to chat. Others not as much."
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"As soon as I'm finished speaking here, I'm going to sit at that desk and I will sign a directive giving law enforcement, schools, mental health professionals and the public health community some of the tools they need to help reduce gun violence," President Obama said Wednesday, as he signed a total of 23 Executive Orders at the White House.
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