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...always thought all forms of public muscle building were unseemly. "I'm a closet exerciser," he says, "but "I'm seriously thinking about coming out." Senior Reporter-Researcher Sue Raffety resumed a running program she had stopped some years ago, and recently completed a 13.1-mile half-marathon in an eminently respectable 1 hr. 53 min. Raffety also swims a mile every morning before work. "Swimming and running," she says, are my total tranquilizer." Senior Editor Timothy Foote, who edited the cover, is a fitness veteran who started 20 years ago with the Royal Canadian Air Force routine...
...like herds of oestrous gazelles down side streets. Marriages were threatened when one spouse trained for a marathon and never arrived home for an evening meal. Dinner itself became a lean affair of crudités and boiled fish. Executives could be seen pumping iron like buttoned-down Schwarzeneggers. For a while it seemed to be a fad, one more instantaneous American fixation like the twist or the Hula-Hoop. The U.S., after all, had become the country of spectator sports, hadn't it? Walking was all but unAmerican. Long-distance running was for Europeans. "It'll never...
...almost new field of sports medicine is now a legitimate $2 billion specialty. The total bill by year's end: more than $30 billion. The surest indicator of the current dominance of fitness was the flood of applicants for the twelfth New York City Marathon last Sunday. New York Road Runner's Club President Fred Lebow spent $1,000 out of his own pocket a decade ago, when 233 marathoners entered the event. This year 25,000 runners applied for 16,000 places. Replete with controversy over mismanagement and under-the-table payments to top amateurs, the race...
Tracking Shot #2--The pedestrian in the black coat walks out of a dormitory, passing a group of students in front. All nod, seemingly out of habit. The pedestrian walks over to the checker Marathon which has now pulled up in front of the dorm. The car is parked and they walk to another dormitory where the woman in the windbreaker is waiting, and then they continue until they reach the point where they are again walking past the Brattle, talking, with one looking up at the airliner...
Pearson is a member of the Greater Boston Track Club, placed 84th in last year's Boston Marathon with a time of 2 hours, 21 min., 40 seconds and runs approximately 90 to 100 miles per week...