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Going Far: Reflecting on the years when running grew up -- and a writing career took off (Joe Henderson's Memoirs Book 2)

Joe Henderson

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Description:(from the book’s Prologue) “Ghost” is another word for “memory.” The better our memories, the greater our population of ghosts. I don’t just believe in them but visit them often. They’re visible only to me but are clearly there, everywhere I’ve ever gone and remembered.Many of mine live in the Bay Area of northern California, in what came to be known as Silicon Valley. It sits near the bottom of a thumb-like peninsula that points northward, with San Francisco as its thumbnail. Silicon chips hadn’t yet ignited an information revolution when I first arrived here in the 1960s. This area still went by its old name, the Santa Clara Valley. More of the valley’s land still supported more vegetable farms and fruit orchards than housing tracts, strip malls and high-tech research parks.After a two-day Greyhound ride from Iowa I landed midway between San Jose and San Francisco, first in ethnically mixed Mountain View. The setting here was spectacular, especially to the landlocked flatlander I’d been before. To the east, the San Francisco Bay and the East Bay hills beyond. To the west, the low but steep Santa Cruz Mountains, and on the other side the Pacific.The climate here was kind, especially in the dry summer season when I first breathed this air. No rain for a third of the year, no snow that stuck to the valley floor, no extreme cold or heat, no high humidity, no smog (yet) and little of the summer fog that often hung over San Francisco. What drew me here – the look and feel of the place, plus the job prospects – would draw millions more immigrants. The Santa Clara Valley would explode in population, bringing all the attendant growing pains. I would leave without noticing that I’d been a small part of the problems that drove me away.I would also carry from here a lifetime of memories from my two stays – first during a summer on vacation from college, then for another 11 years after graduation. My first job in running and first road race came here, as would my first marriage, first child, first book (which is another type of child), first home purchase.I suspected none of the above while stepping sleep-deprived off a bus in mid-1963. I’d made my first trip west only to bum around the Bay Area’s running circuit, never thinking I might start a career or stake out a home base here. That first summer, home was a cheap sleeping space in a garage and shared kitchen-bathroom space indoors. The developer here had a sense of humor, placing this house at the corner of Fay Way and Jane Lane in Mountain View.Early in this stay I walked through the door of a storefront on First Street in Los Altos onlyfor a track-tourist visit. This office, hidden behind curtains and bearing the smallest of signs,housed my future employer Track & Field News. Here would begin my career path. That midsummer, on a whim and without proper training, I entered my first long race. Here, in Sunnyvale, began my path toward the marathon – a destination that would take me another four years to reach. When travels lead me back to this area now, I search out the ghosts where I’d lived, worked and run in the 1960s and 1970s. Those old offices now house new tenants. None of them would know or care that magazines, and careers, once took shape here – just as old homes with new residents are unaware of the lives once lived here. I don’t linger long at any of these old haunts. Don’t need to. My ghosts are always here, to visit in memory no matter how far I stray or how seldom I visit them in person.Starting Lines, the first book in this memoir series, describes my eldest ghosts. Going Far picks up where that one left off, with a move to California where I would run my longest and write my most.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Going Far: Reflecting on the years when running grew up -- and a writing career took off (Joe Henderson's Memoirs Book 2). To get started finding Going Far: Reflecting on the years when running grew up -- and a writing career took off (Joe Henderson's Memoirs Book 2), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: (from the book’s Prologue) “Ghost” is another word for “memory.” The better our memories, the greater our population of ghosts. I don’t just believe in them but visit them often. They’re visible only to me but are clearly there, everywhere I’ve ever gone and remembered.Many of mine live in the Bay Area of northern California, in what came to be known as Silicon Valley. It sits near the bottom of a thumb-like peninsula that points northward, with San Francisco as its thumbnail. Silicon chips hadn’t yet ignited an information revolution when I first arrived here in the 1960s. This area still went by its old name, the Santa Clara Valley. More of the valley’s land still supported more vegetable farms and fruit orchards than housing tracts, strip malls and high-tech research parks.After a two-day Greyhound ride from Iowa I landed midway between San Jose and San Francisco, first in ethnically mixed Mountain View. The setting here was spectacular, especially to the landlocked flatlander I’d been before. To the east, the San Francisco Bay and the East Bay hills beyond. To the west, the low but steep Santa Cruz Mountains, and on the other side the Pacific.The climate here was kind, especially in the dry summer season when I first breathed this air. No rain for a third of the year, no snow that stuck to the valley floor, no extreme cold or heat, no high humidity, no smog (yet) and little of the summer fog that often hung over San Francisco. What drew me here – the look and feel of the place, plus the job prospects – would draw millions more immigrants. The Santa Clara Valley would explode in population, bringing all the attendant growing pains. I would leave without noticing that I’d been a small part of the problems that drove me away.I would also carry from here a lifetime of memories from my two stays – first during a summer on vacation from college, then for another 11 years after graduation. My first job in running and first road race came here, as would my first marriage, first child, first book (which is another type of child), first home purchase.I suspected none of the above while stepping sleep-deprived off a bus in mid-1963. I’d made my first trip west only to bum around the Bay Area’s running circuit, never thinking I might start a career or stake out a home base here. That first summer, home was a cheap sleeping space in a garage and shared kitchen-bathroom space indoors. The developer here had a sense of humor, placing this house at the corner of Fay Way and Jane Lane in Mountain View.Early in this stay I walked through the door of a storefront on First Street in Los Altos onlyfor a track-tourist visit. This office, hidden behind curtains and bearing the smallest of signs,housed my future employer Track & Field News. Here would begin my career path. That midsummer, on a whim and without proper training, I entered my first long race. Here, in Sunnyvale, began my path toward the marathon – a destination that would take me another four years to reach. When travels lead me back to this area now, I search out the ghosts where I’d lived, worked and run in the 1960s and 1970s. Those old offices now house new tenants. None of them would know or care that magazines, and careers, once took shape here – just as old homes with new residents are unaware of the lives once lived here. I don’t linger long at any of these old haunts. Don’t need to. My ghosts are always here, to visit in memory no matter how far I stray or how seldom I visit them in person.Starting Lines, the first book in this memoir series, describes my eldest ghosts. Going Far picks up where that one left off, with a move to California where I would run my longest and write my most.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Going Far: Reflecting on the years when running grew up -- and a writing career took off (Joe Henderson's Memoirs Book 2). To get started finding Going Far: Reflecting on the years when running grew up -- and a writing career took off (Joe Henderson's Memoirs Book 2), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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