| Re: MRH (40 Years After)
Posted by gary on June 26, 2008, 10:29 am, in reply to "MRH (40 Years After)"
cool stories Bob, I really want to get Amby to come run the new years (cold) Boston Marathon. His conflict is that John J hosts a new years day run in CT that goes from his house to the ocean (for an optinal swim) aand back. I told Amby if he came to run BAA I'd go with him to do John Js run after. I know that you're enjoying the sun down there but you ought to come up on 1-1-09 and join us! I'll be sure this story gets added to MRH even though its a NH race. It is still classic stiff involving a great Maine runner.
cheers
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: (1968) Every Columbus Day in October,
: Manchester,New Hampshire would hold their
: annual New England AAU 15K Championship;
: great prizes; honest competetion & flat
: as old beer for the first 5 1/2 miles (hills
: galore thereafter)---Didn't check to see @
: the starting line who was there...Just as
: well...After finishing 9th the year before
: (Ralph Buschman, Ken Mueller, Graham
: Parnell, ETC.)& a 29:56 time trial (6)@
: Colby College 2-weeks before, i was ready..
: I took off so fast that Tony Sapienza
: thought i had won it... hit 3 miles in 15:10
: & the crowd was telling me i had a big
: lead....A few minutes later Jim Keefe
: (Ranked #1 in U.S. 3 miles in '63) &
: Amby Burfoot (no intro needed)go by...@
: least i can get 3rd, right? & a nice
: prize...WRONG!!! @ almost 8 miles &
: "rung out", John J. Kelly catches
: up to me...with about half a mile to go, i'm
: "DUN" & Kelly gets me by about
: 6 seconds.....Keefe wins it & i get to
: say i ran w/ the best on a cool fall day 40
: years ago.....B
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