Bob Sullivan wrote: >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.
$25,000 runners? That's going to be a zoo! Perhaps I'll pass on running it again. I ran in 1996 when they had 38,000 runners for their "100th" running (it was really the 99th because they didn't have a marathon in 1918). I think when I ran in 1998 and 1999 they capped it at 15,000 which still seemed like too many. -- 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.
