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Inkberry Books: November 8th at 7:00 PM

Author Lyle Smith

BLOOD, SWEAT & SPIKES

Running the Wetmore Way


At the height of the first American Running Boom, a small town in New Jersey emerged as a magical place in the sport.

Tiny Bernardsville, in the Somerset Hills of New Jersey produced dozens of local, state, age-group, and national 

champions and claimed a places in the pantheon of American distance running. A junior program fed a high school team of boys and girls that claimed legend status.


Before he was one of the best collegiate distance running coaches on the planet, Mark Wetmore was the young, ambitious, experimental coach of this program.


BLOOD, SWEAT & SPIKES is one story of one of those runners in that town and the people who made it unique in the history of the sport.

About Lyle

Niwot resident Lyle Smith is the author of the memoir, BLOOD, SWEAT & SPIKES and WHY YELLOW MATTERS, that explores the importance of asking "why?" in everything we do. He makes his home in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado with his wife, Heather, and son Aiden. It is a place he's wanted to return to since he first ran the Junior Olympic Cross Country nationals here at age 11. Originally from Bernardsville, NJ, he can proudly say he was a 

 part of The Long Red Line of Bernards distance running as a two-time high school All-American, 16-time NJ state champion and twice a member of the Penn Relays high school boys distance medley Championship of America team.