Jesse Squire
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Jesse Squire
@tracksuperfan.bsky.social
Second in the 1980 Olympic* long jump

(*Cub Scout Olympics, Pack 99, 9-10 age group)
“What’s a Midwest summer like?”

Here’s a random squash growing out of a tiny crack in parking lot asphalt.
July 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Just 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.
July 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
On Canada Day, celebrate the True North’s biggest export: pro wrestlers
July 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Right next to Ontario’s most remote LCBO. Yes it works.
June 24, 2025 at 1:52 AM
June 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Them: why did you decide to do a tempo run when it was 87 degrees?
Me:
June 4, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Two 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.
May 31, 2025 at 10:58 PM
What do Klaus Wolfermann and the classic muscle car I saw this morning have in common?
May 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Happy Mothers Day
May 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
C’mon. It’s just right there.
May 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Happy Jim Laney Day to all who celebrate
May 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Mammas don’t let your babies grow up to be runners

Happy 92nd to Willie
April 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
April 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
April 23, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Reasonably good view from this morning’s run along the St Lawrence River
April 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Hmm
April 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I 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.
April 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
My 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:
April 14, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Checking out the local running store is a totally normal tourist activity when abroad, right?
April 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“It vas ze greatest bier in all ze vorld!”
April 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
45 years ago today
April 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
My view tonight: looking across the Detroit River from Windsor as a 999-foot freighter travels upriver
April 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Take off to the Great White North
Take off, it’s a beauty way to go
April 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
My spring break begins tomorrow at 2:45pm and if you lived through the early 80s then you can decipher my immediate plans
April 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Ooh! Murder mystery at a half marathon. This looks like my kind of book.
April 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM