Analgesics: Cure or Curse?
Vol. 1, No. 1 (1997)
Analgesics: Cure or Curse?
Many Distance Runners Use Analgesics Indiscriminately. The Consequences Could Be the Ultimate Overuse Injury Los DISTANCE running is associated with pain—the pain of a maximal…
Editorial: January/February 1997
Editorial: January/February 1997
[…] viding road maps to help you get to new running territory. M&B will also provide a forum for your ideas, insights, questions, experiences, and concerns. From where did M&B…
Marathon 101
Marathon 101
How Baron Pierre de Coubertin, Michel Breal, and Spiridon Loues Conspired to Create One of the World’s Toughest—And Most Enduring—Events T HE FIRST modern Olympics at Athe…
My Most Unforgettable: January/February 1997
My Most Unforgettable: January/February 1997
Ny Most Unforgettable Marathon… And What | Learned From It ANNE KESTON At age 71, John Keston is a good bet to break 3:00 in the marathon. Vans SPAIN, February…
On the Mark: January/February 1997
On the Mark: January/February 1997
THE FIRST 100K. What would be a reasonable training program to follow to build toward a good track or road 100K performance at age 53? Coincidentally, ’’ve run 53 marathons…
On the Road With Kathrine Switzer: January/February 1997
On the Road With Kathrine Switzer: January/February 1997
On THE Road with Kathrine Switzer ANTIPODES NEW ZEALAND, October—Today, after packing for four hours, I go out for my last run, not wanting to miss the sunshine and the…
One Step Beyond
One Step Beyond
. One Step Beyond SEE STRESSES SRD ALESIS CELEB TE TERNAL GES TA AO ETE When It Comes to Running Really Long, Be Careful What You Wish For… By TIMOTHY…
The Great Six-Day Races, Part 1
The Great Six-Day Races, Part 1
su The Great Pettey Six-Day Races A History in Six Parts There Is Little New under the Sun. Just When We Feel We’ve Moved into New Territory, We Learn the…
Vancouver International
Vancouver International
Vancouver International Marathon An “International” Designation Is Earned, Not Bestowed OME MARATHONS artificially affix status to their event by adding the word “internat…
Walking the Walk
Walking the Walk
Walking the Walic (PELL SD RECESS PSSST LOE ATE AT I Real Runners Never Walk During Their Training and Racing. Do They? By JOE OAKES “Che va piano va lontano…
Borne Free
No. 2 (1997)
Borne Free
entries. While other races went begging for participants, runners had to prove themselves before they were allowed to pin on a coveted Boston Marathon number. Runners grumbled, …
Boston’s Pseudo “100th”
Boston’s Pseudo “100th”
Asimilar record of longevity has accompanied another institution—namely, the marathon, an event created as a special one-time-only novelty race to honor the host Greeks during…
Cobras and Concrete
Cobras and Concrete
[…] run under 2:30 at the same race the next year. As with all runners I advise, I asked Joe for samples of his past training, present fitness, and future…
Letters to the Editor: March/April 1997
Letters to the Editor: March/April 1997
Letters ciao PREMIER ISSUE It's refreshing to read a publication that deals with running and fitness withouttrying to sell you a lot of products. I enjoyed Joe Oakes's article, …
Leveling the Boston Course
Leveling the Boston Course
CONSEQUENCES OF JET LAG Sleep deprivation is the first adverse consequence associated with jet lag. Most of us require seven to eight hours of sleep per day to maintain optimal…
My Most Unforgettable Marathon: March/April 1997
My Most Unforgettable Marathon: March/April 1997
1985: Lisa Weidenbach is last American victor. Smith repeats. Bad business deal with Marshall Medoff declared void. Lacking financial incentives to run, best runners stay home. …
On the Mark Experts: March/April 1997
On the Mark Experts: March/April 1997
On the Mark: Experts tell us Marginal Gains Are we finally beginning to see an end to the race to produce equipment and training techniques designed to inch out incremental…
On the Road With Kathrine Switzer: March/April 1997
On the Road With Kathrine Switzer: March/April 1997
[…] hoards the premier issue, but when you speak with collectors of longgone periodicals, it is frequently the second issue that is more valuable because it is difficult to fi…
San Francisco Marathon: A
San Francisco Marathon: A
[…] to England and beat him but he had no money. O'Leary replied sarcastically, "T'll build you a bridge." This so nettled Hughes that whenever he talked of O'Leary after…
Secrets of Marathoning ‘
Secrets of Marathoning ‘
Set Attainable Goals One school of thought recommends setting lofty goals in order to pressure yourself into high performance. Personally, I have had more success by taking the …
The “Real” 100th Boston
The “Real” 100th Boston
But as innocent and inspiring as that statement sounds, it stung many long-standing New Zealand athletic administrators of the 1960s, who back then were probably both jealous an…
The Art of Peaking
The Art of Peaking
Young John Kelley's Journal The following is the journal entry made by John J. (Young John) Kelley, whose 1962 win at Yonkers was his seventh out of eight in a…
The Great Six-Day Races, Part 2
The Great Six-Day Races, Part 2
Six-day races have been run since the very earliest days of professional running. In 1879, the first two six-day running race was held at Gilmore's Garden (the precursor to Madi…
The Last PR
The Last PR
As the sun and temperatures began to rise just before the start, I drank as much as I could hold, doused myself with water, and hoped for the best. The…
Bigger Is Better
Vol. 1, No. 3 (1997)
Bigger Is Better
FINDING THE PERFECT MARATHON In Joyful Defense of Very, Very Large Marathons \ A ] HOEVER COINED the tidy little axiom “the more, the merrier” must have recently run a…
Editorial: May/June 1997
Editorial: May/June 1997
DOWNHILL RUNNING The main feature of this issue is a survey titled “Where Are America’s World-Class Marathoners?” The survey was inspired by the increasingly abysmal showi…
fewer sub-2:20 marathons than the
fewer sub-2:20 marathons than the
[…] runners gain from the spectators. They witness a very long-running show, a movie that goes on for hours, with individual struggles and heroics every mile. Marathon day is …
Large Is Marvelous
Large Is Marvelous
FINDING THE PERFECT MARATHON Marathons with 2,000 to 10,000 Runners Offer the Best of All Possible Worlds HEN IT comes to defining the perfect dimensions of a marathon, a \…
My Most Unforgettable: May/June 1997
My Most Unforgettable: May/June 1997
My Most Unforgettable Ultramarathon … And What | Learned From It By RICH HANNA In the early miles of the World Challenge 100K in Japan, Rich Hanna (number 162) keeps…
On the Road With Kathrine Switzer: May/June 1997
On the Road With Kathrine Switzer: May/June 1997
On THE Road with Kathrine Switzer DEFINING SCRIPTS LOS ANGELES, February—Four days before the 12th annual City of Los Angeles Marathon, while I am in the streets filming porti…
The Great Six-Day Races, Part 3
The Great Six-Day Races, Part 3
[uw The Great una Six-Day Races A History in Six Parts: Part Ill American Daniel O’Leary Defends the Championship Belt in a Gut-Wrenching, Four-Man Battle in Gilmore’s Madis…
Two Generations of Marathoners
Two Generations of Marathoners
paying jobs right out of college as teachers or Peace Corps workers. They didn’t expect to graduate and start a job in the corner office. The main point of this…
Wineglass Marathon:
Wineglass Marathon:
Wineglass Marathon Fall Foliage, Norman Rockwell Setting, Personal Attention. What’s Not to Like? C RYSTAL-CLEAR, 65-degree days and cloudless, moonlit 25-degree nights create…
Editorial: July/August 1997 (p. 3)
Vol. 1, No. 4 (1997)
Editorial: July/August 1997 (p. 3)
[…] for a successful hunt, including the return trip dragging or carrying the game. The theory is cute, clever, and neat. There was also a theory that the reason the…
Editorial: July/August 1997 (pp. 1-2)
Editorial: July/August 1997 (pp. 1-2)
WRETCHED EXCESS Nobody gets out of here alive. Our only positive options are to take steps to lengthen our stay and make our visit as lively and fulfilling as humanly…
Letters to the Editor: July/August 1997
Letters to the Editor: July/August 1997
Letters DOWN ON DERDERIAN Tom Derderian, the statistical stickler, was ready, willing, and able to rag on the BAA for its “premature party” in his March M&B article “B…
My Most Unforgettable: July/August 1997
My Most Unforgettable: July/August 1997
Ny Most Unforgettable Ultramarathon (And What | Learned From It) MARC HERMAN Ronni Ross at mile 25 of the Angeles Crest 100-Mile Endurance Race. S AN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS, CALIFORN…
On the Mark: July/August 1997
On the Mark: July/August 1997
RUNNING WITH MEN. I’m a 25-year-old woman whoruns 40 miles per week but is considering moving up to the marathon. My heroines, Grete Waitz, Joan Benoit Samuelson, and Uta Pipp…
On the Road With Kathrine Switzer: July/August 1997
On the Road With Kathrine Switzer: July/August 1997
On THE Road WITH Kathrine Switzer THE MIRACLE OF THE UNLIKELY WASHINGTON, D.C., April— Twenty-five years ago this spring, I came down from New York City to visit my parents…
Philadelphia Marathon:
Philadelphia Marathon:
Philadelphia Marathon A Race with Everything Going for It, Except the Big Sponsor OFFICE OF THE CITY REPRESENTATIVE, CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, 5: CITY of Brotherly Love has been emb…
The Art of the Taper
The Art of the Taper
The Art of Tapering With the Hard Training Behind You, the Last Few Weeks Offer Opportunities to Peak Mentally By MARK CONOVER \ \ ] HEN IT’S time to taper…
The Great Six-Day Races, Part 4
The Great Six-Day Races, Part 4
=u The Great A History in Six Parts: Part IV American Pedestrian Edward Payson Weston Turns Runner and Defies His Naysayers in the Fourth Astley Belt Race by Ed Dodd…
Editorial: July/August 1997 (p. 1)
No. 5 (1997)
Editorial: July/August 1997 (p. 1)
[…] night before the race, and it was raining. It was still raining at 3:30 a.m. Not wanting to run in the rain, he checked out of his motel room…
On the Road with Kathrine Switzer
On the Road with Kathrine Switzer
OF MARCH, NEXT YEAR, THE RACE TURNS TWENTY-FIVE, AND THE ORGANIZERS HAVE ALREADY BEGUN PLANNING A GRAND CELEBRATION. BUT FIRST, THEY HAVE TO GET THROUGH THIS YEAR, AND THERE ARE…
Race Results
Race Results
TO THE TOP THREE MALES IN THE 60 TO 69 AGE GROUP WHO FINISHED IN THE TOP 10 OVERALL, WE PRESENT SPECIAL AWARDS.
