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...exercise ethic. But as a true-blue '60s radical and one of those impassioned individualists who refuses to comply with the limits society sets on its fads and trends, Shapiro didn't restrict his jaunts to the conventional distances of ten or fifteen miles or even the marathon. Rather, Shapiro joined up with that elite--some say insane--class that has aptly labeled itself "ultrarunners...
...serve regiments of "skinny-ski" addicts. Yellowstone, Crater Lake, Sequoia and other national parks are offering winter ski touring. In 1973 the 34-mile Birkebeiner race and an accompanying 17-mile contest drew only 75 contestants. This year's outing will be the sport's Boston Marathon, attracting more than 7,000 participants...
Because the Ivies, unlike the Easterns, have no time requirements, they throw together hundreds of swimmers of widely varying abilities. The result is heat after heat in a marathon dragging over three days. In addition, as Yale Coach Frank Keefe sayd, the meet has degenerated into a virtual four-way battle because the rest of the Ivy League has not kept pace with the recruiting efforts of Princeton, Brown, Harvard, and Yale. But now for the best swimmers and the best teams, the Easterns will supplant the Ivies as the season's championship meet...
...Harvard students. This was not always the case, though. In the 1950s and 60s the club held a position of prominence in both the University and the community, sponsoring such popular events anannual clambake on the coast, a Harvard to Wellesley Bike Race ("The sidelines looked like the Boston Marathon," Andres remembers). and concerts in Sanders Theater with music artists like Pete Seeger...
...about them is that they all meet somewhere in the middle, at an agreeable semipro level. Hemingway has retained the sweet artlessness of her Manhattan days, while Donnelly, a sometime Olympic hurdler, makes something pleasantly older-sisterish of her role. Kenny Moore, the SPORTS ILLUSTRATED writer (and former Olympic marathon competitor), has a goofy grace as the man who sets Hemingway on the straight path, while Scott Glenn, the memorable heavy of Urban Cowboy, manages to make toughness funny as the women's hard-driving coach...