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 generation feared for the fate of the world, while the next feared for their economic future; one generation learned early the concept of layaway (aka delayed gratification), while the next learned how to ding a credit card.

Is there a way for current U.S. marathoners to reach and surpass the records of the previous generation and to use that as a springboard to train themselves physically, mentally, and spiritually to be the best in the world?

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A place to start would be for the two generations to begin “talking” to each other. It’s not as though Frank Shorter, Bill Rodgers, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Alberto Salazar, Greg Meyer, Garry Bjorklund, Benji Durden, Kathrine Switzer, Kenny Moore, Don Kardong, Jacqueline Hansen, Julie Brown, Ron Tabb, Doug Kurtis, Ron Wayne, Amby Burfoot, Dick Beardsley, and others are dead. Instead of today’s marathoner talking to an agent, the runner would do better to spend some serious time studying the U.S. marathon legends to find one whose style and personality appear similar or complementary, and then beg, plead, or cajole that elder for some mentoring. What have U.S. marathoners got to lose? Another record at the end of 1997 for fewest sub-2:20s in modern history?

—Rich Benyo

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1997