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The American Running Association turns 40.
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AMAA Journal
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March 22, 2008
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2008 American Running & Fitness Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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I think my father, Lt. General Richard Bohannon, MD, would be immeasurably grateful and impressed that the tiny organization which he launched in 1968 as the National Jogging Association has survived for 40 years and is, indeed, thriving in its current iteration. I rather think that he would be delightfully surprised and quick to credit the efforts and energies of others, being modest in his own aspirations and pursuing endurance and stamina as guiding principles for himself.
I've taken the liberty, which a daughter might arrogate to herself, to share a few fragments from Dad's writings, musings, and talks composed during his career which are relevant to the theme which he ...
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