You'll probably be able to resist Ed but here is one of the better quotes. The thread is: http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1&thread=37235&page=0 Regards, Martin
"I've said it before and I'll say it again, the courses prior to mid-1980s were SHORT. Don't believe the apocrypha. The one-legged mailman from Greater Boston may have run 2:13 (for what, 24 miles?) but he was not as good a marathoner as Meb, Rod Dehaven, or probably even Deena Drossin for that matter." Ed and Dana Parrot wrote: > > Veering a bit here but the subject line made me think of it. There are > some > > yahoos on letsrun that actually espouse the theory that the reason there > was so > > much depth in distance in the early eighties is because the courses(and > probably > > the tracks) were all short. > > I assume you are talking about U.S. depth here. > > I think that the Boston marathon and Falmouth road race results from > 1980-1985, run on essentially the same courses as now, would quickly dispel > such BS. I have no doubt that there was more inaccuracy 25 years ago, but > to use it as an "excuse" has got to be the most pitiful, chicken-s#%t thing > I've ever heard. I knew there was a reason I don't go to letsrun.com. > > - Ed Parrot -- Regards, Martin Martin J. Dixon, B. Math. (Hons), C.A., Partner Millard, Rouse & Rosebrugh LLP Chartered Accountants P.O. Box 367 96 Nelson Street Brantford, Ontario N3T 5N3 Direct Dial: (519) 759-3708 Ext. 231 Telephone: (519) 759-3511 Private Facsimile: (519) 759-8548 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: www.millards.com Practice Areas: www.millards.com/htm/profs/m_mjdixo.htm IMPORTANT NOTICE: This email may be confidential, may be legally privileged, and is for the intended recipient only. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any of it by anyone else is prohibited and may be a criminal offence. Please delete if obtained in error and email confirmation to the sender.
