Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 27/07/2025“What’s a Midwest summer like?” Here’s a random squash growing out of a tiny crack in parking lot asphalt. 020
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Just reminding everyone that Grete Waitz set a European junior record the year The Carpenters’ “Close To You” came out and was 4th in the NYC Marathon the year Public Enemy’s “Fear of a Black Planet” was released. 000
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 01/07/2025On Canada Day, celebrate the True North’s biggest export: pro wrestlers 000
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025One free butternut squash plant six weeks ago, about 500ccs of rich dark homemade compost, and Midwest sun and rain and now the vines spread 3.5 meters. 010
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Right next to Ontario’s most remote LCBO. Yes it works. 020
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Idea for a mystery novel and/or film… Rural midwestern farming community. Two township trustees found dead from shotgun blasts. First murders in the area anyone can remember. Well-liked, apparently no reason anyone would want to harm them. 1/ 110
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 08/06/2025I understand that losing weight will require eating less. Gradually waking up to the horror that it means eating less. 000
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Spent eleven days in Edmonton at the 2001 Worlds. Not surprised. It felt like a small town of 1.3 million people, and sports absolutely define small towns. 120
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Canuck friends: how much do the Calder and Kelly Cup finals matter on the north side of the border? In other words, would anyone besides Trois-Rivières and Abbotsford fans even know who’s playing? 100
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Them: why did you decide to do a tempo run when it was 87 degrees? Me: 020
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Two years ago today I was sipping a Negroni under apricot and fig trees in a Ligurian hillside village while wondering how this ghetto kid ended up there. 110
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 26/05/2025What do Klaus Wolfermann and the classic muscle car I saw this morning have in common? 010
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Given that the new Pope got his bachelor’s at Villanova I expect the Track Internet to photoshop him into a Penn Relays podium photo 120
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Mammas don’t let your babies grow up to be runners Happy 92nd to Willie 020
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 20/04/2025I am curious to see what effect the troubles are having on races. Doing a relay next week at an ultra being held just a short drive from Port Huron/Sarnia yet only three Canadians in the whole event (+/- 500 total entries). 000
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Reasonably good view from this morning’s run along the St Lawrence River 120
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 16/04/2025I always say the Great Lakes is the greatest place on 🌍 and I still believe that. Here to say a sugar shack in the Quebec woods makes the podium. 010
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 16/04/2025When I was the right age to watch Sesame Street, I didn’t understand that there were different TV channels. I just knew Sesame Street, Cpt Kangaroo, and my other favorite shows. So I didn’t realize sometimes I watched SS on PBS (USA) and sometimes on CBC (Canada). 100
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Of course Quebec City’s running shop has a coffee bar in it 010
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 15/04/2025A Gen Xer travels in Canada: the Toronto subway “doors are closing” chime is the first three notes of the Sesame Street theme. In Montréal it’s the first three notes of the In Search Of theme. Each describes the city a bit. What would be the appropriate TV show theme sample for your city? 100
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre are in Montréal today. I don’t know which but one is staying in our hotel. Six RCMP officers in the next booth over at the local diner. 010
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025My colleagues on spring break: imma go to the beach and not move Me on spring break: I’m going to where there’s still snow so I can do 30,000 steps a day sightseeing. Oh, and I can’t speak the language either. Them: 020
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Checking out the local running store is a totally normal tourist activity when abroad, right? 050
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 12/04/2025My view tonight: looking across the Detroit River from Windsor as a 999-foot freighter travels upriver 020
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 10/04/2025My spring break begins tomorrow at 2:45pm and if you lived through the early 80s then you can decipher my immediate plans 100
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Given how many businesses and organizations major marathon directors have to work with in order to put on their races, there has to be a nonzero number of races that require deals with organized crime. This simple idea would make for an entertaining film. 110
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Someone at The Onion clearly knows track and field. 031
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Just being clear, it was that our march was an unbroken line of people at least 1000m long 000
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 05/04/2025A report from Toledo I can’t estimate how many, but my running experience says our march was at least 1000m long. (Metro area of 500k people). It was also 99.9% white, that’s unusual here. Leaders didn’t do a good job reaching minority communities. If they had it would’ve been 2x as big. 010
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025A lot can happen in three years. So this is idle speculation. But if things keep going as they are, in many countries it will be political suicide to send a team to the ‘24 Olympic Games. 000
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Ooh! Murder mystery at a half marathon. This looks like my kind of book. 010
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Last night’s storm wrecked the throwing cage at BGSU. About 20 years ago another storm took the pressbox off the top of the bleachers. Wind is no joke around here. (Photos by asst coach Marcus Myers) 000
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 03/04/2025The team most affected by this is the Buffalo Bills. The building materials for its new stadium are now heavily taxed and a large % of fans will not be setting foot in the USA nor spending $0.02 here. The Lions have Canadians fans too but not many since SW Ont is lightly populated compared to DTW. 000
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 02/04/2025I vote for Skratch Labs to win running April Fool’s Day. www.skratchlabs.com/products/the...skratchlabs.comThe MARATHONGA Rear-volution in Endurance Gear. Built for speed. Not decency. 030
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 30/03/2025My father was white trash of the most wonderful kind, but still 100% white trash. This is exactly how he ate spaghetti. Even 5 year old me knew better. Then I married an Italian-American whose reaction was sheer horror. 010
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Still my favorite celebrity marathoners of the “no shit, that fast?” kind are NFL hall of fame defensive tackle Alan Page (3:27:50 *during* his NFL career) and Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers (3:41:49 at age 50) 020
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Not sure if this is in fact *that* Bryan Cranston, though it seems likely. He would have been 29 and 30. “I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it.” That definitely sounds like a marathoner. 230
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Just going to promote my wife’s art for a minute. This is a commissioned work in progress, a bookmark depicting Quebec City’s Chateau Frontenac. 040
Jesse Squire @tracksuperfan.bsky.social · 29/03/2025So yesterday I got a more than credible report of an international student being sent home because of (no really) an unpaid traffic ticket and I’m thinking certain NCAA sports like TF/XC might look a lot different in the near future 120
Reposted by Jesse SquireAlex Predhome @predamame.bsky.social · 28/03/2025You should really only drink Mike's Hard Lemonade 1-2 times a week. The rest of week should be for Mike's Easy Lemonade or Mike's Conversational Lemonade. 2193