Word: marathoning
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...stitches and hernias-the traditional rewards of running. Runners who speak of their exquisite pains (and many runners speak of nothing else) say the compensations are, and ought to be, ethereal: surges of joy, increased selfesteem, improved sex lives. But commercialism is afoot and mercenaries are gaining. The Boston Marathon is about to turn...
...next Monday looms like Heartbreak Hill. It figures to be the final Patriots Day for the Boston Marathon, and the last stand of undiluted amateurism. For reasons no less prosaic than television, the Boston Athletic Association intends to shift its noble race next year to Sunday, perhaps adjust the starting and finish lines slightly for commercial purposes, and, if all that isn't jarring enough, begin paying the winners. Will Cloney, 70, president of the B. A. A. and master of the marathon, contends that there is at least "a semantic difference between being paid and running for prizes...
...existing rules of amateurism could have been written by Cole Porter: Anything goes. On the occasion of his second consecutive victory in the New York Marathon last October, Alberto Salazar allowed as how, given a choice, he prefers his cash "under the table" rather than by way of one of the new trust-fund arrangements the International Amateur Athletic Federation has approved as a slender hedge against hypocrisy. Also on behalf of under-the-table money, Fred Lebow, the New York Marathon's candid proprietor, points out that it "is legal as far as the governments are concerned...
...everybody has been happy with the Boston Marathon. Olympic Gold Medal Winner Frank Shorter has run at Boston only twice, the last time in 1979. Among other reasons, he could never coax so much as a plane ticket out of Cloney. Sneaker companies have probably picked up a few tabs over the years in Boston, but the runners have never been paid or even had expenses defrayed by the B.A.A...
...marathon time. And the Crimson wants to be there with you, as you make the trek from Hopkinton to the Pre next Monday. But you have to help us. If you are in any way affiliated with Harvard, and plan to run the Boston Marathon next week--of, officially or unofficially--please help our marathon coverage by calling or leaving a message for Tom Meyer or Caroline Adams at the Crimson...