MY GENERAL feeling is that runners should not give up easily if they are advised to cut back on exercise after some medical/surgical happening. Sadly, physicians and surgeons often are not up with the play so far as runners are concerned—a lament that George Sheehan was always making. On the other hand, I think Mr. Geddes should work with a cardiologist who is well informed in this rather narrow area of running marathons with a recent valve replacement. The potential level of cardiac function he now has, with the replacement, is very relevant. So I think his task is to link up with such an exotic cardiologist who can assess his capacity and work closely with him as he endeavors to regain the fitness required to attempt a marathon. Of course, the doctor should ideally be a running enthusiast and certainly not all against the idea.

Ideally, such a person would be located in Victoria, but this may not be possible. I can suggest two people who should know about this. Dr. Paul Thompson [see previous response] may be able to recommend someone in British Columbia who could advise Mr. Geddes. His e-mail address is cbthomp @ aol.com.

Dr. Terence Kavanagh was very well-known for carefully training postcoronary runners for the marathon (usually Boston) and ran with many of them in the race. I believe he went on to train postbypass runners, and perhaps also some heart transplant patients, to run the marathon. This was

all regarded as quite amazing in medical circles at the time—back in the 1970s. He worked at the Toronto Rehabilitation Centre and if he is still active would be an excellentresource. Peter Wood, Ph.D.,

is the chairman of the Science Advisory Board of this magazine and a former professor at Stanford University—and a many-time Boston finisher, where he

ended up one place behind Dr. Paul Thompson in 1968.

ASSUMING THAT you have had medical clearance to exercise and increase your heartrate, then a gradual systematic approach to your training will allow your muscles to adapt appropriately. I suggest you read the book by Jeff Galloway (Galloway’s Book on Running) in which he describes a training program that incorporates regular bouts of walking interspersed with running. He points out that the key to this approach is to start walking before you fatigue in a training run or arace. I know several runners who have adopted this approach and who have run several ultraraces successfully, with surprisingly fast times.

Mike Lambert,

associate professor at the Sports Science Institute of South Africa, is on the M&B Science Advisory Board.

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DAVID KAYSER is a museum curator for the National Park Service in Salem, Massachusetts, and the trade news editor for Road Race Management newsletter. He has been a curator for 22 years and, starting at a young age, has collected everything from stamps to baseball cards—his mom didn’tthrow them away!—. to sports equipment to Goofy toys. An avid runner for the past 35 years, Dave has run more than 35 marathons, with a PR of 2:30 achieved at his favorite race, the Boston Marathon. Dave currently spends his evenings shopping on eBay for a fresh pair of legs.

JOANNE LANE is an Australian freelance writer based wherever her computer can find a home, currently home again in Australia. After completing a journalism degree and working for Australian newspapers, she discovered that freelance writing suited her better. Joanne spent two years working and traveling in India, meeting relatives and discovering family history, although there were plenty of Indian influences in her own childhood in Australia. Both parents had lived in India, so there were curry dinners and a strong sense of both Indian and Australian identities. She has been traveling through Asia, Africa, and Europe for the past four years writing travel and sports features.

MICHAEL SELMAN lives with his wife just outside Atlanta. He has been running since 1982. About four years ago, he began jotting down his thoughts on running and publishing them as “Thoughts of a Roads Scholar.” He was first published in a regional publication called Run and See Georgia in 1996; the magazine is now called Georgia Runner. He also created his own Internet newsletter, which he distributes to roughly 800 readers each month. He has since written more than 100 articles, most of which have been published on Internet sites, but he has also been published in traditional magazines such as Runner’s World and FootNotes.

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 Running Center, going all the way back to those exciting days of the running boom in the late ’70s. Dave’s favorite memory is the 2:38 he ran as a masters runner in the Vermont City Marathon. He lives in Melrose, Massachusetts.

JOHN REMINGTON has lived in Toronto, Ontario, since 1989 and has been running since 1991. He is currently working as an ICU nurse in transplants and trauma to pay his running-related expenses. John is the Ontario Ultra Series official correspondent and became its newest race director in April 2001 when the Greater Toronto Ultra Race was born over several pints of Guinness. John has represented Canada in the World Cup 100K Challenge in 1999 and intends to requalify for the 2002 team.

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