Word: brittin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Mike Brittin lines up today in Hopkinton to start his first Boston Marathon he may not remember Philadelphia--but he probably will remember the pain it took to get there. To qualify for the BAA race a contestant must have previously finished a marathon in three hours and 30 minutes...
...Brittin made it, but barely. He ran his second marathon ever in 3:27:56 and wound up in an ambulance, after collapsing at the finish line...
...Brittin is one of four students from Washington and Lee University, a small all-male school in Lexington, Va., that have come north to Harvard to run in the hilly, tortuous, world-famous marathon today...
Until this year, Brittin had never run long distances. He was a star defensive safety and kick-off returner at W&L until he realized the game of football no longer held any allure for him. Switching to long distance running, he piled up a 4:01:38 in his first marathon, after only a month of training...