Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Remembering Jan Johnson (Dialog with Larry) : Saluting an Icon

Remembering Jan Johnson (Conversations with Larry): Saluting an Icon, audio by Larry Eder, is recorded by Mike Deering, mixing and graphics by Mike Deering

Remembering Jan Johnson (Dialog with Larry) : Saluting an Icon

Ideas shared by Larry Eder, RunBlogRun

Jan Johnson, 1950-2025 was NCAA Champion, Olympic bronze medalist, inventor, coach, author, ex-husband, father, good friend, grandfather. Jan was many issues.

Jan, like all people, had his demons.

The confluence of skate tradition, pole vault tradition, and surf tradition have been all in Atascadero.

Jan Johnson’s legacy? Over most of his life, Jan has drawn many to the pole vault, and his legacy would be the continued development of the occasion in each males’s and ladies’s pole vault.

Jan was the primary advertiser in my pub, American Athletics, with HIND and Skyjumpers. He was additionally first in American Monitor & Subject. Jan and John Powell went out of their manner to assist us make our publications profitable.

I did this podcast in honor of my good friend, Jan Johnson, I hope you prefer it.

I thank Billy Smith and his spouse, Jennifer, who hosted me in San Luis Obispo.

 

  • Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement within the sport of athletics. Larry has skilled the game as an athlete, coach, journal writer, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America’s first sub-4 minute miler, was revealed in RW in 1983. Larry has revealed a number of magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. model of Spikes journal. He at the moment manages the content material and advertising improvement of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his each day pilgrimage with the game, Larry says: “I’ve to confess, I like touring to distant meets, writing concerning the sport I like, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, probably the most of something I’ve ever achieved, besides, perhaps working itself.” Additionally does some updates for BBC Sports activities at key occasions, which he really enjoys. Theme tune: Greg Allman, ” I am no Angel.”

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