It almost feels like losing a personal friend when someone whose work you have been reading suddenly dies. He made significant contributions to the sport.
Flo Jo was Florence Griffith Joyner.
Yep, even ultra-fit people like Jim Fixx and Ed Burke can drop dead in an instant. In the late '70s when I was a regular runner and reading Fixx's books there were a couple of other high profile deaths while running. One was either a senator or congressman who had been a serious distance runner for years. Such things made national news because running was very popular at the time.
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