LIGHTING THE FUSE It was 49 years ago, today, 22 May 1976, that the U.S. staged its Olympic Trials Marathon to determine the three-man team to represent… Read more “1976 MEN’S OLYMPIC MARATHON TRIALS – EUGENE, OREGON”
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BOSTON 1975: WHEN THE FUTURE WAS JUST BEGINNING
“Boy, There’s Nothing Like This Back in St. Louis!”
BOSTON: A SIREN’S SONG OF SPEED
The Boston Marathon sings a sweet song of speed within its test of endurance, its melody beginning with the marching drum-and-fife call to the line in Hopkinton… Read more “BOSTON: A SIREN’S SONG OF SPEED”
NEW YORK CITY LATE RACE DUSTING
There were no clouds of dust like in 1982 when Alberto Salazar pulled free from Mexico’s Rodolfo GÓMEZ coming off Columbus Circle into Central Park along a… Read more “NEW YORK CITY LATE RACE DUSTING”
MARATHON GROUNDBREAKERS
Since Australia’s Derek Clayton ran history’s first sub—2:10 marathon in Fukuoka, Japan, on 3 December 1967, there have been a total of 4538 sub—2:10 marathons (as of… Read more “MARATHON GROUNDBREAKERS”
SKEPTICISM RATHER THAN CELEBRATION FOLLOWS WOMEN’S WORLD RECORD IN CHICAGO
The hue and cry about Ruth Chepngetich’s 2:09:56 women’s world marathon record in last Sunday’s Bank of America Chicago Marathon is not toning down. Poor John Korir,… Read more “SKEPTICISM RATHER THAN CELEBRATION FOLLOWS WOMEN’S WORLD RECORD IN CHICAGO”
ANOTHER WORLD RECORD FALLS IN CHICAGO
30-year-old Kenyan Ruth Chepngetich destroyed the women’s marathon world record today (13 Oct. 2024) at the 46th Bank of America Chicago Marathon. Her time of 2:09:56 ripped… Read more “ANOTHER WORLD RECORD FALLS IN CHICAGO”
CHICAGO 1982: A REBOOT
First run in 1977, this Sunday, Chicago hosts its 46th marathon (it lost 2020 to the Covid-19 pandemic; 1987 to sponsorship issues). One of the six Abbott… Read more “CHICAGO 1982: A REBOOT”
THE MARATHON: ENDURING BUT NO LONGER ENDURANCE
As a practical matter, conditions will either expand or retract distance in any race, but especially an endurance race. Heat, headwinds, uphills, and humidity are expanders. Cool,… Read more “THE MARATHON: ENDURING BUT NO LONGER ENDURANCE”
HAS THE MARATHON WALL BEEN TORN DOWN?
The crosscurrents of history and technology met up at the Boston Marathon in its 128th year. The notoriously downhill, quad-busting early miles of the Boston Marathon course… Read more “HAS THE MARATHON WALL BEEN TORN DOWN?”
