Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HALF THE excitement of this festive affair is the time leading up to it when you train, if that seems necessary, and get yourself psyched for the big way. Around Cambridge, it's especially enthralling. The Charles is a spawning ground, rather a training place, for an enormous number of marathoners and a fair amount of regular old runners...
...often been tempted to go lay a big juicy kiss on the 60-year-old lady in the College House Pharmacy who gave me my very own box of Mollskin on a fateful day last spring. Blisters had been a terrible problem for me, but after my trip to the Pharmacy, life for my feet was immeasurably better. A good deal of any success I had in last year's Marathon must be credited to the little old lady...
...big fault of my procedure was that I ran a big distance once a day rather than running part of it in the morning and the rest of it later. The important thing seems to be the total number of miles per week rather than running 20 miles at all once. Track coaches think it's better twice a day, too, and that's how I did it this year...
Jock was willing to explain further, of course. "I say we throw all the nuts out. It's the guys with the 56-inch waistlines that bother me," he said. Horgan related that last week one of these big boys offered to punch Jock in the nose after the guy's entry was turned down. "The guy was five-by-five and weighed 225 pounds," Semple claimed, adding, "He got insulted when I told him he was a bloody idiot." He could have called him worse things, and in fact probably did, but they weren't printed...
...COURSE is downhill for 300 yards, and after the first quarter mile, I had a stitch, rare for me. Panic. I thought I was really losing big and wondered what the next 25 miles might bring. Soon, the stitch went away...