I went to school in Boston in the mid '60's. In the spring there was this strange holiday - Patriot's Day, that was celebrated nowhere else in the USA. That day, they ran the Boston Marathon. It was a quirky kind of local race. The local news talked about heartbreak hill and the winners. Running wasn't popular then, and the marathon was one of one or two such races in the USA. Foreign runners came to race for the prize money. Things have changed now, with many races around the USA and the Boston Marathon field capped at 25,000 runners. Regards, Bob S.
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > David Mann wrote: > >>On Feb 14, 2010, at 11:20 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: >> >>> Nope. I'd be doing 16-17 miles at this point if I were training for a >>> marathon. I may do one in the fall if I decide to run Boston next >>> spring. >> >>If you haven't seen it already, I'd recommend seeing "Spirit of the Marathon". > > My movie recommendation in return is "Run for Your Life: The Fred > Lebow Story", about the founder of the NYC marathon. Fascinating > character! > >>I also recently read Kathrine Switzer's autobiography. Great book. > > I'll get to meet her in a few weeks as she's speaking at the college > where I teach a week before the Boston Marathon in April. > >>I've run the half-marathon distance a couple of times recently. It probably >>wouldn't hurt as much if I stuck to the sealed footpath but I tend to run on >>the grassy riverbank. I need to get around to setting some proper goals as >>it might get me to go out a bit more often... > > I'm thinking of racing a half marathon in the spring. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
