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Wednesdav. August 18, 1976
University Daily Kansan
To run-perchance to limp
By LARRY FISH
Chris Sims was sitting around the house in the summer of 1973, watching the Wateregate hearings and putting on weight. Listless, he went on one day and jogged for a mile or so. Like more and more people, he found he didn't want to ston.
"It is an obsession," says Sims, who now racks up to 100 miles a week on the county campus of Iowa State University research assistant for the KU Information Center, found that the "physical invigoration" of running made him feel better, his immune system stronger. He's not alone in the discovery.
"ITS AMAZING how many people there are around here who run," Sims says. On the county roads, city streets, campus and church, more people are running for their health.
Unfortunately, more of them are winding up in a doctor's office for their troubles. Watkins Memorial Hospital reports that in the past 12 months, the physical therapy section there has treated 15 "inflammatory conditions," eight injured Achilles' tendons, and six common skin splints, all directly the result of running the wrong way.
The walking wounded have gotten that way because they did at least one of three things wrong, according to Kathy Goff, a physical therapist at Watkins. Goff says they would have been adequately warmed up, or they ran in bad shoes, or they ran on a poor surface.
THERE HAVE been very few injuries among the 140 or so faculty members, staff and students who run every morning in the fitness program run by two members of the physical education department. Wayne Osness and Jean Fyffe lead their class through slow stretching exercises to warm up before turning them loose on the track.
Physical fitness" nurses arenured back to health by Goff and her co-workers, using a handheld computer or machine, which uses sound waves to gently heat and massage the damaged muscles. With exercises, the would-be runner can generally be back on the track in a week or
Their program, about to enter its fifth year, includes some men and women in their 6th and college students. It's free, and new participants will be able to sign up in the next week or so. One possible drawback is that it meets at 6:45 each morning.
Another section, meeting between 11 a.m. and t p.m., may be set up by Tom Wilkerson, assistant instructor in physical education.
At the beginning of the program, each participant is given a complete physical, and a target heart rate is set. Under the guidance of Dr. Pyer, the runners work toward their goal.
"One of the first things we try to do is
show the individuals how to move in an efficient war." Pvater savs.
To run efficiently, she says, the runner should point his feet straight ahead. The knees should be over the feet and the alps should be over the knees. In short, she says, the knees should be perpendicular. Omassa adds that the toes should cushion the blow for the heel.
"And you should run relaxed," Pyter
"and be relaxed, I mean there should
be no market."
"Touch the thumb to the forefinger lightly; this is to insure a lack of tension in the hands. The arms should be bent and palm out, then pump motion of the arms," she says.
The runners in the fitness program have one other advantage besides the expert coaching—they have each other. Chris Sims says he has found that when he's out on those county roads by himself, it's easier to tend to slough it all off.
What's the problem with running on your own," he said. "It's getting through those down spots that every runner gets into. You have to keep some weeks you just don't feel like running."
To solve that particular problem, Sims says, he's moving to Galveston, Texas, later this year, where he's heard the running never stops.
Oh, Mary ...
daughter's home is often portrayed in a moving way.
But soon Mary began emitting agonized little yelps in mid-conversation, a definite clue that all was not well. She began to scream when airplanes flew over her house; she came unglued when forced to decide what kind of coffee to make; she sobbed when her daughter let her know that she hated her.
SOME OF THE most convincing scenes have been played in Tom and Mary's bedroom, where the problems they try to avoid all day must be confronted. Tom, too, has developed from the 35-year-old highschooler to a middle-aged, dissatisfied, fairly intelligent but woefully confused man. Adding to that confusion is Heather, the daughter that every mother would love with a peanut butter-and-knuckle sandwich.
And then there's Mary. She's the one that attracted everyone to the show in the first place, and she's the one who may be driving her now. Then, a girl named began, Mary represented the force of Reason, such as it was; above every confuseducks would come her soothing touch; above everything would be all right: 'And afterward, we're all going to go to the House of Pancakes.'
And what, also, of the poor viewers? What were we to make of all this? In earlier times a whole cast was made for us.
that Lear C& Co, had their scripts firmly in cheek, so we could laugh with no qualms whatsoever. But who can gaffwat at a woman who's coming apart at the seams? It's not fair to make your audience feel guilty when they laugh. So they're either going to quit laughing, in which case the show is just another soap opera, or they're going to stop watching, in which case the show is no more.
WHAT DOES the future hold for "Mary Hartman"? Will it continue to be the darling of the college set? One wonders. We hear of internal strife on the set of the show, of the bad guys trying to overcome, of clashing eggs and colliding philosophies. A little chaos goes a long way.
But mostly we wonder about Mary herself. The Strange case of Mary Hartman and Louise Lasser grows stranger by the day, and it becomes more and more. The day will come, we lead to fear, when the two personalities will do battle, and Louise Lasser will breathe last. Lasser's interviews are getting progressively garrified; one suspects the worst.
In which case "Mary Hartman" will become the Louise Lasser Death-watch, and millions of jaded viewers will tune into witness first-hand the collapse of a star.
Still, that show biz. These are the 1970s.
We're all adults. Art imitates life. We've got to find new leaders. Klear never yellows.
"Mary Hartman! Mary Hartman!"
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