Word: kalal
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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Riding alongside Brittin on a bicycle, keeping the time and providing encouragement, was Mike Burns. Burns, from Martinsville, Va., placed 213th in last year's Boston Marathon and the stocky runner has a best-ever time of 2:43:10. He, Brittin, Bill Kalal and Ferris Mack will be part of the crowd of 1951 participants, the most ever, in today's 78th Boston Marathon...
What about the pain? Kalal, from Cleveland, Ohio, an introspective and articulate senior, said he had done some thinking on the subject. "Contrary to popular belief, I don't think that marathoners are masochists. We don't like pain any more than anybody else likes pain. You do learn to handle pain...
...There's no one reason for running a marathon," Kalal said. "I'm not sure why I'm doing it, but after 20 miles and those last six miles there does seem to be a reason for me being there. I can't say what it is...it's like the pain and the distance will impose a meaning on the run itself...
...Kalal was co-captain of the W&L track team, but he quit, more for philosophical reasons than for anything else. He said simply that he is involved with running, not winning. Burns, an intense red-headed sophomore, has stayed on the track team, although he says he has had some misgivings. His reasons for running in the Boston Marathon are different from Kala...
There has to be some strong motivation for running in the Marathon. "Unlike Mike," Kalal said, "I didn't come up here to rub shoulders with the best marathoners in the country, in the world, for that matter. What attracts me to Boston is the number of runners. It's sort of like the Woodstock of marathons. You have people of all backgrounds and all occupations getting together...