I thought it was Shorter who said it but if "everyone" ran 4:30 in HS then
maybe more than one person later said that "everyone" ran 4:30 in HS.
Tom Derderian
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From: Tom Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: t-and-f: Re: Liars Club
> on 7/7/01 8:33 PM, Edward Koch at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Frank Shorter is quoted in the novel "Once a Runner" as having said
> > that everybody ran 4:30 in high school. Does anyone know who said it
first?
> >
> > Ed Koch
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The Barretts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Friday, July 06, 2001 2:30 PM
> > Subject: t-and-f: Re: Liars Club
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Yeah, right. First, he's contradicting BR, who said "everyone
> >> ran 4:30 in high school". Second, he was baiting you. Top 10
> >> possible responses:
> >>
> >> 10) Barefoot, uphill, into the wind?
> >> 9) You coulda made a good living as a marathoner...
> >> 8) I suppose this was drug aided? Perhaps Lemon-aided?
> >> 7) We'll, I ran 4:09 you loser...
> >> 6) If that was run in the spring in New England, you could
> >> ask for a 11 second deduction now, making you sub-4.
> >> :
> >> :
> >> 1) Was that for 1600m? Oh, right, you're _way_ too old for that one...
> >>
> >> Ok, I'll keep the day job...
> >>
> >> Richard
> >>
> >>> Kurt, I had occasion to meet Jack Lemon about 10 years ago and having
> >>> heard
> >>> that he was a top New England h. s. miler I asked what he ran for
> >>> time....He
> >>> paused for a second, looked away from me, turned back to me and said
"Oh
> >>> about 4.10 "....I smiled and said "that's terrific" thanked him for
his
> >>> time
> >>> and left....Larry Rawson
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> To all,
> I am correcting myself ... I'm 100% sure now that the "4:30 mile quote"
> comes directly from Marty Liquori ... and he was right, IT DID SEEM that
all
> HS kids could run a 4:30 mile (on cinders) when they were in high school.
> I know we had 5 kids in the 30's in one season ... but we had NONE at
4:10!
> TF
>
