Ann Sanfedele wrote: >Grete Waitz died today, awfully young... 57. > She won the New York City Marathon 9 times. >I got these two shots in 1980 - that year was her 3rd win and the second >time she broke a world record. > >http://annsan.smugmug.com/On-the-Road-or-On-Foot/New-York-City-back-in-the-day/5908739_3pLhP/1/1257776747_SB5Pz6K/Large > >http://annsan.smugmug.com/Talented-People/Talented-People-BW-photos/3605515_N6r2N/1/1257775383_97WxSPX/Large
That first link goes to a photo of a building in Chicago. Yiu might want to check the URL. >Wish I'd gotten sharper shots - what is interesting to me in the second >one is - who is that guy with the very high number >bsting her by a few feet in that shot? I think at some point I tried to >find out if it was someone who later became something >of a star but now don't remember what I learned , if anything. It was pretty common for fast amateur male runners to finish with the women's winner. My friend Dave Coyne got himself on the front page of the New York Times a couple of times by finishing just behind or ahead of the women's winner. :) -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
