have yet to reach Denton Hill, where it increases to 30 degrees.

The intersection at mile 14 has the left branch going to the Denton Hill Ski Area. Those brave enough to look that way get a preview of the 3.6mile climb ahead of them. Those not so bold or foolhardy can look to the right at the Pennsylvania Lumber Museum. The museum is educational and entertaining, detailing the history of logging in north-central Pennsylvania.

The climb up Denton comes in a series of two steps. The first is from the entrance to the ski area and is a straight climb of about a third of a mile. It then levels off after a sharp left turn. But that moment is brief before runners enter an S-turn climb. Once out of the turn, all that runners see is more hill and sky. There is an aid station, and a sign on the right proclaims Denton Hill Summit, Allegheny Mountains, Elevation 2,424 feet.

Take a deep breath, give a sigh of relief, and hold on for dear life. The downhill slope is a roller-coaster ride. All the ground that the runners worked so hard to climb is returned in a mere 1.4 miles. At mile 19, the highway finally levels off and continues pretty much flat for the rest of the course.

At mile 20.2 there’s a turnoff for the Rainbow Paradise Fish Farm. Mile 22 has an historic marker for the Jersey Shore Pike. Mile 23 has the Pure Carbon Company on the left. At mile 24.5, runners pass the Coudersport Junior High School.

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Route 6 also serves as Second Street in downtown Coudersport. Runners make a right onto North Street, go to Fifth Street, and then make a left over one block to Main Street and follow Main to Eighth, where they cross a one-lane iron bridge over a canal that runs through downtown Coudersport.

There are volunteers at each of the intersections in the downtown area and crossing guards as runners come off Second to go on to North Street. The downtown is extremely busy on a Saturday morning, and the quick rights and lefts are a welcome change to the extremely long straightaways the runners have left behind.

There is a gentle rise into the Coudersport Area Recreation Park with an S-turn onto the six-lane allweather track. Three-quarters of a lap around the track in a counterclockwise direction, and a very welcome finish line waits at the 50-yard line.

While the race application promised an expo at the finish area, sales of this year’s race T-shirt ($16) and those left from previous years ($10) along with food at a concession stand was all the expo in evidence.

AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF SUCCESS

The announcer does a great job of calling out the names of finishers, giving hometown and personal best (likely not from the God’s Country Marathon course), and his sense of humor is greatly appreciated at that

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juncture. “If you’re using sunscreen, itis to be discontinued immediately,” he called. On this cold and raw day, his comment was right on the money.

The finish-line crew are supportive and make runners feel the effort

was well worth it. With only 136 runners, clothing pickup is a snap. There’s plenty to drink at the finish, and there’s also fruit. The finish-area support is superb.

Showers are available at the Wellness Center of the Charles Cole Memorial Hospital where the awards dinner is held. Admission is free to all in attendance, including family members. The event is well attended, and the food is very good for hospital fare.

Driving back toward the start ona point-to-point marathon course while the race is still in progress is a learning experience. Driving backward along the God’s Country Marathon course is a college education. Even though half the field is across the finish line, the other half is still struggling to mount that damned Denton Hill or making their series of turns through town. They are inspiring in their struggles against their own weariness and against gravity.

As scenic as Route 6 is—and it is scenic—it is still a two-lane country road. The shoulders are not very wide, and wobbling, struggling runners are more stable on the roadway than on

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the gravel sides. Caution at all times is a must for drivers. A lapse on the part of a driver along Route 6 puts runners into jeopardy.

The concentration on the faces of the runners, the distant looks, the hands on knees as they struggle up that massive hill both inspire and raise questions about the sanity of the participants. This is one tough course for the untrained or weak of heart.

The race is like walking through a time warp that takes you back to marathoning’s first boom, when race committees were small, budgets were

nonexistent, and the challenge was not for medals or T-shirt but for the satisfaction of covering 26.2 tough miles. A $50,000 first prize and anew convertible are a long way from Potter County.

The God’s Country Marathon in Potter County, Pennsylvania, is as grassroots and challenging as it gets in marathon running today. It’s a tough, unforgiving stretch of woods where deer flourish as well as eager hunters. Running in this part of the

country is a welcome step Backs in time. “

The Bottom Line

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We have weighed various aspects of a marathon within a 1,000-point sco ing grid. Besides the author of the article, two dozen runners at the race were randomly chosen to score the race for us (GCM = God’s oy Marathon). The results follow:

1. HISTORY/TRADITION Evaluate the race’s sense of history and tradition. [Possible points: 30 GCM score: 28]

2. ENTRY FORM Is the race entry form clear, concise, attractive, complete, and easy to fillout? [Possible points: 20 GCM score: 17]

3. ENTRY COST

For most races, the entry fee covers between 30 and 50 percent of the cost of putting on the event. Rate the value of your dollar relative to this race. [Possible points: 30 GCM score: 30] :

4. LOCALE/SCENICS

Is the race held in an area that is easy to get to and scenic and offers adequate food and housing services and nonrace activities forfamily and friends? [Possible points: 50 GCM score: 46]

S: REGISTRATION Is registration well organized and efficient? Does it bog fown ay [Possible points: 20 GCM score: 17]

6. PRERACE ACTIVITIES

Evaluate activities, such as pasta feeds, parties, and so on, during the days before the race.

[Possible points: 50 GCM score: 22]

7. EXPO

Does the expo offer a fair number and variety of booths relative to the race’s size? Are there quality exhibitors and good guest speakers?

[Possible points: 50 GCM score: 0]

8. COURSE

Take into consideration the following: degree of difficulty, certified, sanctioned, quality of road or trail surface, adequate mileage and directional markers, aid stations, medical coverage, race communications, accessibility to course for friends and family, typical weather, and so on.

[Possible points: 400 GCM score: 285]

9. RACE AMENITIES

This category includes race T-shirt, finisher’s medal, finisher’s certificate, adequate and efficient finish area, ease of sweatbag retrieval, showers, postrace refreshments, awards ceremony, raffles, results postcard, results book, and so on.

[Possible points: 250 GCM score: 175]

10. VOLUNTEERS Are the volunteers experienced and adequate in number? [Possible points: 100 GCM score: 75]

TOTAL SCORE FOR GOD’S COUNTRY MARATHON 695 points

The Rest of the Pack

Below, listed alphabetically, are other marathons profiled in Marathon & Beyond, the volume and issue number in which each race’s profile appeared, and the overall score each race received. If there is an asterisk (*) behind the score, it indicates that a member of the M&B staff has revisited that race and rescored it—either up or down—based on changes that have been made; the changes are briefly detailed at the bottom of the following list.

Adirondack Marathon (vol. 5, issue 2) 845 points Aspen Fila Skymarathon (vol. 4, issue 1) 863 points Atlanta Marathon (vol. 4, issue 5) 840 points Calgary Marathon (vol. 3, issue 2) 876 points Cincinnati Flying Pig Marathon (vol. 3, issue 6) 901 points Dallas White Rock Marathon (vol. 4, issue 6) 856 points

Detroit Free Press/Flagstar Bank International Marathon 892 points (vol. 5, issue 3)

Edmonton Marathon (vol. 2, issue 2) 814 points Fox Cities Marathon (vol. 3, issue 4) 865 points Glass City Marathon (vol. 6, issue 1) 862 points Governor’s Cup Ghost Town Marathon (vol. 2, issue 1) 795 points Grandma’s Marathon (vol. 3, issue 1) 968 points Honolulu Marathon (vol. 2, issue 4) 906 points Humboldt Redwoods Marathon (vol. 2, issue 3) 809 points Key Bank Vermont City Marathon (vol. 4, issue 2) 888 points Las Vegas International Marathon (vol. 1, issue 5) 831 points* Motorola Marathon (vol. 5, issue 6) 876 points Napa Valley Marathon (vol. 2, issue 5) 913 points Ocean State Marathon (vol. 5, issue 5) 886 points Philadelphia Marathon (vol. 1, issue 4) 838 points Pittsburgh Marathon (vol. 1, issue 6) 904 points Portland Marathon (vol. 3, issue 3) 943 points Quad Cities Marathon (vol. 4, issue 3) 885 points Royal Victoria Marathon (vol. 5, issue 4) 918 points San Francisco Marathon (vol. 1, issue 2) 804 points Santa Clarita Marathon (vol. 4, issue 4) 866 points Shamrock Sportsfest Marathon (vol. 2, issue 6) 866 points Steamtown Marathon (vol. 3, issue 5) 892 points Vancouver International Marathon (vol. 1, issue 1) 851 points* Wineglass Marathon (vol. 1, issue 3) 839 points Yukon River Trail Marathon (vol. 5, issue 1) 870 points

The Las Vegas score went up due to the race moving its expo from tents at Vacation Village to one of the major downtown hotels and expanding the expo. The finishline area has also been improved: with the new finish-line area, the 90-degree turn into the final 70 yards is now a thing of the past.

At Vancouver, the score has gone up based on several factors: many of the bridges (major uphills) have been removed from the course as has the industrial area on the far end of the Lions Gate Bridge. In addition, the entire event has been consolidated into one area (the BC Place complex, which is one of the few remaining structures from Expo ‘86), which contains the Vancouver Marathon offices, fitness and health expo, seminars, and the start/finish areas.

Letters

SHOE DEBATE CONTINUES

Dr. George Sheehan once said that running is an experiment of one. Most of the articles that appear in Marathon & Beyond reflect this philosophy. This may be the greatest strength of the publication. The article “A Matter of Sole,” which appeared in your November/December 2001 issue, was intentionally aimed in the same vicinity, but missed the mark because it only relied on personal experience and ignored a significant amount of very studious effort and engineering that go into today’s running shoes. The article continually challenges the design and performance of 21st century shoes with the assertion that shoes from the 1970s were and are superior. The article also repeatedly challenges the lack of legitimate running shoe research, ignoring the fact that a huge body of knowledge does exist. Ironically, everything the author states as being desirable in his personal running shoes is available today. The Nike Cortez, so highly touted by the author, is still available, but who would want to wear them now?

The perception of some skeptics has been that Nike invented the biomechanics laboratory as an excuse to raise the price of running shoes. Not so.Where is the research? How about

these names: Barry Bates, Peter Cavanaugh, Tom Clarke, Ned Fredericks, Mario LaFortune, Simon Liithi, Benno Nigg, Bernhard Segesser, Martin Shorten, Gordon Valient, and a whole slew of recent researchers, who have yet to make their presence felt.

There is no question that every runner needs to find the best running shoe for them. This is not rocket science, but it is technical. The shoe companies uniformly understand this, and it drives their product development. One problem with the process is the need to sell large numbers of shoes, which makes it difficult to ensure that every runner has an understanding of what their feet are like and what they need for their feet and running style. Any running shoe that does not meet your individual needs is essentially worthless to you. Conduct your own research, andif need be, get professional help.

Cregg Weinmann Bakersfield, Calif.

I’ve been struggling with sore knees for about a year. I have switched shoes twice, finally going with the newest most expensive shoes available. I’ve been to my doctor, a physical therapist, and a knee specialist. The knee guy said my knees were in great shape—but they still hurt. leven bought a bike in the spring to give my

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knees some rest. The only time my knees didn’t hurt was when I ran 15+ miles during the Hood to Coast Relay, wearing racing flats.

I found your recent article about running shoes very interesting. When the author said that higher tech shoes caused many of his problems, including sore knees, I felt like he was speaking directly to me.

I recently bought a cheaper, simpler shoe, and on the very firstrun my knees felt much better and have continued to improve in the weeks since. I’m back to running six days/week and feeling much better. Thanks for the article!

Jim Yost Mahomet, Ill.

POINTS OFF…

Points off to Marathon & Beyond for not indicating in your profile of the Ocean State Marathon (see the September/October 2001 issue) that age group prizes go only two deep. I ran the race in October and found it to be a great event, even with the headwinds. Being able to stay inside before the start and get inside right after the finish were very big pluses that day. I was both surprised and pleased when I checked the posted results and found that I had finished third in the 55-59 age group. The surprise remains, but the pleasure was cut short when I discovered at the awards presentations that the age group awards went only two deep. I suppose I didn’t really lose anything because I never expected to win anyMarch/April 2002

thing. It is disappointing, though, to

actually finish with a place that usually is worth some kind of prize.

Jim Bitgood

3:29:58 chip time

MORE, PLEASE

I subscribed to Marathon & Beyond through MarathonGuide.com. | hope your two companies can collaborate a lot in the future. I get almost all of my marathon information from your two sources.

I had similar emotions as one of your recent letter writers regarding Christine White’s article “How Runners Talk,” which appeared in your September/October 2001 issue. I started that issue from the back to the front but saved the author biographies for later reading. I enjoyed reading Christine’s article so much that I jumped right to the back of the issue to read her blurb. My hands shook when I read that she had subsequently died. Then I cried when I read Rich Benyo’s addendum to his editorial in which he gave more details about her early finish in life’s race. Her writing was fantastic, and if you can publish anything by her again, please do. I wouldn’t care if it were notes from her training log.

Dave Corfman Cincinnati, Ohio

HELP FOR AN ABRASIVE SITUATION

My wife and I have been subscribing to M&B for a while now. We have

been racing for almost a year and have participated in races from 5K to marathons. We ran our first ultra this past November. The purpose of this letter is not so much acomplaint but a “‘public service” warning that may save people some grief. At the 2001 Ocean State Marathon Expo, I purchased a Marathon & Beyond dri-release racing singlet. I wore it at a 5K race the following week with no problems. Then I wore it while running the Green Mountain Marathon in Vermont. When I got back to my hotel room, I found blood stains on the sides and front of my shirt. My nipples and the insides of my arms were rubbed raw, along with someirritation on my stomach just above the waistline. Having never before experienced “runner’s nipple,” I was a bit alarmed by this. Checking the label on the shirt, I saw that it was made of a cotton/polyester blend called “dri-release” (I believe that this material, along with the abrasion, caused the irritation).

What I’m wondering is if any other runners have experienced the same problem with this type of material—or nipple irritation in general. I really like the shirt—I just won’t wear it in a race ever again.

PS: No other gripes. We love your magazine, and your assessment of the Ocean State Marathon was right on the money!

C. Jozefski Rochester, N.Y.

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M&B publisher Jan Seeley responds: Ouch! We sympathize with the irritation and discomfort you experienced after the Green Mountain Marathon. Skin abrasion and irritation has beena bi-product of continued repetitive motion long before Marathon & Beyond began selling racing singlets and cotton/polyester drirelease was a commercial product. In fact, painful nipple abrasion is such a common problem for men that a product was developed a few years ago specifically to address this concern, with no mention that its design was solely to protect against dri-release products. Runners who are prone to nipple abrasion can experience it no matter what material their shirts are made of. Shirtless runners may not suffer nipple abrasion, but irritation and abrasion on the inside of the arms and around the waistband of shorts is not uncommon. In addition to NipGuards, the product specifically designed to protect nipples, you can also find several anti-chafing products—sold in tubes or in canisters that look like deodorant—at your local running store. Before a long run or marathon, put on your NipGuards (some runners use Band Aids) and then apply your anti-chafing product to any body part that may become irritated over the course of your run.

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On THE Mark

THE SPEED OF LONG RUNS

When I’m training for a marathon, at what speed should I do my long runs? I’ve heard I should do them 60 to 90 seconds per mile slower than my proposed marathon race time. Is that correct? —Bill Jenkins via e-mail

IKNOW that lots of runners like the certainty that numbers provide. But there are too many variables among different runs and runners to give a specific long run pace. Running two minutes slower than your marathon pace over a hilly, unshaded course on a boiling hot day is likely going to make you work harder than running 30 seconds per mile over race pace on aflat course in cool, overcast weather.

So, you want to think in terms of effort rather than specific paces. Distance is more important than speed, so the first priority is to do the run at apace that will allow you to complete the workout without distress. But this doesn’t mean you need to crawl through all your long runs.

Arthur Lydiard says you should feel “pleasantly tired” after finishing these runs. I suggest running at a pace that’s slow enough so that you could continue for another hour or so at the

run’s end but that’s fast enough that you’d really rather not.

More often than not, you’ ll find this pace will be a minute or two slower than your race pace, but don’t hesitate to go slower if you’ re feeling tired or faster if you’re feeling good. Just don’t turn the run into a race, and

make sure that you “stay aerobic.” Rich Englehart is a frequent contributor to this magazine and is the veteran of virtually every kind of trace imaginable.

THERE ARE a few formulas commonly used to gauge long run pace. One formula is the one you mention. A better one is expressed in terms of percentages (because 60 seconds per mile is more of a difference for someone running marathons at 5:00 pace compared to someone doing them at 9:00 pace). This formula says to shoot for a pace that’s 10 to 20 percent slower than goal pace, starting at the slower end of the scale and working down to the faster end of the range for the last several miles of your long run.

For example, if your goal pace is 6:00/mile, you would start your long runs at a bit over 7:00 pace (7:12, for the anal retentive crew out there) and work down toward 6:30 pace or so (again, if you must be precise, 6:36 pace). For people who train using a heart-rate monitor, arange of 73 to 83 percent of maximal heartrate is a good zone.

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Of course, as with any formula, it’s silly to confine yourself to its stipulations if your body is saying something different. Maybe you need to cram in a long run early on Saturday before a full day, and you wind up going earlier than you’ re used to. The running gods will not strike you dead in your tracks if you do this run a little slower than usual. Similarly, the workout police will not arrest you if you find yourself cruising along in the second half of a long run faster than normal and loving every minute of it.

An important part of successful marathoning is doling out your effort correctly, and your long runs are your best opportunity to learn what’s possible.

Scott Douglas is a former editor Running Times and and co-author of four running books,

including Advanced Marathoning (Human Kinetics, 2001).

IF THAT is the theory being bandied about as to the pace at which long runs should be done, it’s no wonder no one runs PRs anymore. I would suggest that 60 seconds per mile slower than race pace is a good starting point—while 90 seconds per mile slower is too slow. Even if you run at 60 seconds per mile slower than race pace, that would put you 26 minutes slower than your race goal. Is that any sort of preparation to ready yourself for the rigors of the marathon? I think not.

There is a fallacy that has developed around the LSD (long slow distance) mentality that continues to dog

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marathon training ideas to this day. That is that long runs should be slow. A number of years ago, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to hear the undisputed godfather of long distance running, Arthur Lydiard, speak about long slow distance. He suggested that runners need to replace the word “slow” with “steady” tomore aptly describe the nature of the long runs necessary to effectively prepare for running the marathon.

This is because the objective of long runs is to improve your capacity to run aerobically—basically, developing your ability to run faster for longer without become breathless. The art of running a marathon well is being able to run comfortably at your goal pace foras long as possible. Completing a number of long steady runs (16-22-milers) at a pace that is close (within 20-30 seconds per mile) to your goal pace will allow you to develop the capability of sustaining your goal marathon pace.

Thus, if you wish to improve your marathon performance, I believe that you would be best served by embarking upon a program whereby you gradually increase both the quality and the distance of your long runs. Although] am unsure of your exact pace and marathon time, here is a basic model program that you can work from.

Firstly, I believe that you need a minimum of 22 weeks to prepare effectively for a marathon. In addition, this program presupposes that you are not starting from scratch but have

some background of running behind you. Finally, this program only addresses the long runs in your training. Obviously, you would also include some progression of phases in your training: developing a base, hill work, pace running, and a final taper. These areas are beyond the pervue of this correspondence.

This program alternately increases the mileage of your long steady run and improves the pace of your long steady run on a bi-weekly basis over an 18-week period. This plan calls for nine long steady runs every second week during the period of your buildup toward the marathon. On the alternate weeks, a shorter run at a slightly easier pace is utilized. The plan outlined is for an individual who has a goal pace for their marathon of 7:00 per mile. (Depending on your own goal pace per mile, you can adjust the pace of these runs accordingly.) The odd-numbered weeks are the more challenging runs with the even weeks being the easier runs.

Distance Pace Week 1 13 miles 8:00min/milepace Week 2 10miles 8:00min/milepace Week 3 13 miles 7:55 min/mile pace Week 4 10 miles 8:00min/mile pace Week 5 15 miles 7:55 min/milepace Week 6 12miles 7:55min/milepace Week 7 15 miles 7:45 min/milepace Week 8 12miles 7:55 min/milepace Week 9 17 miles 7:45 min/milepace

Week 10 14 miles 7:50 min/milepace Week 11 17 miles 7:35 min/milepace Week 12) 14 miles 7:50 min/milepace Week 13 19 miles 7:35 min/milepace Week 14 12 miles 7:45 min/milepace Week 15 19 miles 7:30min/milepace Week 16 12 miles 7:45 min/milepace Week 17 22 miles 7:30min/milepace Week 18 10 miles 7:45 min/milepace

This all sounds like hard work, doesn’t it? Well, here’s the bad news: improving one’s marathon performance is hard work. As I have outlined above, running long runs at closer to your goal pace must be done progressively. In addition, careful attention must be paid to recovery after these long steady runs. The two to three days after the run need to be recovery days—maybe two easier days and a day of active rest (cycling, swimming, hiking).The steady long runs are the glue that bind your entire marathon preparation together. Without long runs, all your speedwork, fartlek, hill training, and tapering will be for naught.

Kelvin Broad

is a many-times winner of the Royal Victoria and Calgary marathons.

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DENISE DILLON has 14 years of experience writing and reporting television news and is currently an anchor for CNN Headline News. When she’s not working, she’s usually working out. She has run a number of marathons and also competes in triathlons, from the sprint to the Ironman distance. She did manage to survive the extremely windy 2001 Hawaii Ironman and claims that staying on her bike while triathletes around her were blown off theirs was one of her greatest athletic accomplishments. She is also a certified aerobics instructor, tennis player, water skier, scuba diver—and she enjoys just about any other sport you can name. She lives in Georgia and is a regular contributor to Atlanta Sports & Fitness Magazine.

MARY NICOLE NAZZARO telocated to the Bay Area this year to begin graduate work at Berkeley and to finally get in a little hill training. She has just returned from a stint working for NBC at the Salt Lake City Olympics and recently completed work as a production assistant for a PBS series on the history of the Jim Crow years, to be broadcastin the fall. Mary Nicole continues to write for Runner’s World Online and promises that 2002 will be the year of the mythical 3:40 Boston qualifier. She can be reached at marynicole @post.harvard.edu.

DAVID KROMER is a runner with more than 35 years of experience in the running game. Those first few strides he took as a 12-year-old in junior high school gym class ignited his lifetime passion for the sport. During his college years, Dave got a large dose of inspiration from his coach, Bob Sevene. He has enjoyed a long association with the Bill Rodgers

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KENNETH W. WILLIAMS, a businessman from Corinth, Mississippi, was inspired to write this short story after a trip to Greece, where he ran in the original marathon, from the Plain of Marathon to Athens. Kenneth has been running at least one marathon a year for the past 25 years. He wishes to credit Major General Dimitris Gedeon, Retired, a Greek military historian, for his able assistance. You may reach Kenneth at kwilliams @ corinthcoke.com.

FRED EBRAHIMI arrived in the United States in the late 1950s from his native Iran. After taking six years to finish college, he married his first wife in his late 20s and continued to party hardy until age 48—at which point he took up running when he realized a 180-pound body on a 5’5″ frame wasn’t healthy. He ran his first marathon four months before turning 50 and has run 20 more since then. He appointed himself race director of the Cherry Street Mile in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which became the fastest road mile race in the United States, with a 3:46.29 fastest and 38 sub4:00 runs in five years. Fred is also the co-founder of the Oklahoma Marathon— Tulsa and the Thanks for Giving Run. These days he runs mostly cross-country and trail races but tries to run at least one marathon a year to remember the simultaneous feelings of pain and joy. He is happily married for the second and last time. Fred works in the printing and advertising sales trade.

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DAVID E. MARTIN, PhD, is Emeritus Regent’s Professor of Health at Georgia State Univeristy in Atlanta. He is coauthor of The Marathon Footrace (1979), Training Distance Runners (1991), and Better Training for Distance Runners (1997). His latest book is The Olympic Marathon (2000), coauthored with Roger W.H. Gynn, from which his current M&B article is excerpted.

KEVIN POLIN previously detailed for M&B readers his initiation into 50-mile racing (March/April 2001). In between travels for his work as a software consultant, he enjoys running, mountaineering, and writing. In fact, he is currently pursuing a master’s degree in creative writing but is pacing himself so it doesn’t get done too fast. Kevin claims he’s enjoying the writing assignments too much to rush through them.

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