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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 \ V large race (2,000 to 10,000 runners) has everything going for it and very little going against it. A large marathon is not so big … Read more

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 portions of the course for our TV show of the race, a Hollywood cops and robbers shootout is taking place in the next neighborhood. Like a scene … Read more

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 magazine writer’s argument was that his generation, thrown into the real world, “feared for their economic future.” Perhaps therein lies the crux of the problem—one … Read more

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 some strange magic on the flora and landscape of upstate New York in early October. Long, bowing leaves clinging to cornstalks take on a pale, almost skinlike hue. Rich blue and deep … Read more

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 showing of current U.S. distance runners on the world marathon stage and in comparison to the performances of the previous generation of American marathoners. As we headed to deadline with … Read more

Vancouver International

Vancouver International Marathon An “International” Designation Is Earned, Not Bestowed OME MARATHONS artificially affix status to their event by adding the word “international.” But for a marathon to truly burnish the international in its name, the race committee must expend a fair amount of time and energy soliciting and then coddling the foreign runner with … Read more

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 Roadmaps Have Long Since Been Drawn by Ed Dodd I wrote the following in 1977 as the introduction to my half of a book called … Read more

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 5, 1995—“Animo! Animo!” “Go, go, go!” “Fuerza, Ale!” The shouts of encouragement broke against me like warm Mediterranean waves. I was living the dream of … Read more

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 MARTIN JACK HOPKINS. Author Tim Martin trained like a madman to prepare for his first ultra. [x THE small hours of Sunday morning, while the … Read more

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 race effort, the pain of interval training, the pain of the long run. There is also the devastating pain of injury. The marathoner and ultrarunner trains on the edge, balancing … Read more

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 last fresh air P’Il breathe for 24 hours and the last pollution-free air I’ll breathe for a long time. I’mrewarded with brilliance and warmth, a … Read more

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