Pete Bortolotti next to Greg Fredericks again! Pete help run the Rapid Transit Store (progeny of the Athletic Attic) after Greg.
Pete Bortolotti next to Greg Fredericks again! Pete help run the Rapid Transit Store (progeny of the Athletic Attic) after Greg.
Beantown Strangler wrote:
It was also a hot, hot day with high humidity. I recall the guys upfront went out at a crazy pace. Also, the roads back then were in terrible shape as I recall.
Yeah it looks in really bad shape.
skwilli wrote:
Pete Bortolotti next to Greg Fredericks again! Pete help run the Rapid Transit Store (progeny of the Athletic Attic) after Greg.
Is Bortolotti the guy in the white undergarment in the Diamonds picture to the right of Fredericks and two left of Salazar (third row back) in the Falmouth picture?
Here's the two photos for ease of reference.
http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/3915/dsc03129h.jpghttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hd4wuvEKsG4/Sv3jYkY8aaI/AAAAAAAABAA/_5T-oXreWrs/s1600-h/78FRR6_0009.jpgIT's a 7 mile race. Lot's of opportunity to look worse than at the start.
That is the 1978 Falmouth Road Race if it hasn't been mentioned.
Kenny Moore article here:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1135819/1/index.htm
More pictures and article on the race:
http://recoveryourstride.blogspot.com/2009/11/1978-falmouth-road-race-when-bill.html
Pete is #7 in the Diamonds picture. #49 (or maybe 40 or 48) in the Falmouth picture, in the dead center directly left of Greg.
You are correct. Pete appears in so many of these great photos! He is also a better golfer than I. Great guy, too.
This was back when anyone who was anyone ran Falmouth, Bix, Peachtree, etc. When racing was racing. Now everyone trains 51 weeks a year for one race.
Alan
Beantown Strangler wrote:
It was also a hot, hot day with high humidity. I recall the guys upfront went out at a crazy pace. Also, the roads back then were in terrible shape as I recall.
I don't know that the roads are any different then than today. Basically winding roads through the woods and then once you hit the beach a little bit of sand on them, but not enough to call them "terrible shape"
Lorenzo the Magnificent wrote:
Was that the famous AlSal last rites ice water run?
Yes, Falmouth that time of year you can get two extremes. It can be either so humid that you don't want to go outside, or the air is so dry and the sky so blue that you cannot imagine life being more perfect.
The good days outnumber the bad ones by 3:1. But when it's bad it's really bad.
It only took me about an hour to spot Squires' big bird look a bit back. Kevin Ryan's in there behind Cabell.
And just behind AlSal's left elbow, would that be Bob Anastasio?
Bob could run a good mile, but he wasn't really a distance guy. If he was that far up front in the early going, I'd have to think that the latter part of the race was a "challenging" experience for him...
Well, heck, I take it back. I checked the results (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hd4wuvEKsG4/Sv3lSkypeNI/AAAAAAAABBI/WRnpsEv_M9E/s1600-h/78FRR10_0010.jpg) and saw that Bob finished in the top 20, only a minute and a half behind the winner--excellent performance in that field.
What a pleasure to read those results. Man, *everybody* was there.
He was also top 5 at Peachtree that year. The boy could run;
uli wrote:
And just behind AlSal's left elbow, would that be Bob Anastasio?
Bob could run a good mile, but he wasn't really a distance guy. If he was that far up front in the early going, I'd have to think that the latter part of the race was a "challenging" experience for him...
THAT's who it is. Couldn't remember the name.
Anyone else notice the discrepancy in the official times from this article?
http://recoveryourstride.blogspot.com/2009/11/1978-falmouth-road-race-when-bill.html
and the results posted here?
1 32:31 Bill Rodgers GBTC CR
2 32:37 Mike Roche New Jersey
3 32:53 Craig Virgin Athletics West
4 33:02 Mike Slack Minn, MN
5 33:04 Greg Fredericks State College, PA
6 33:07 Hillary Tuwei U. Richmond (KEN)
7 33:10 Bruce Bickford Northestern TC
8 33:12 Bob Hodge GBTC
9 33:18 Greg Meyer GBTC
10 33:20 Alberto Salazar GBTC
I wonder why the different time results???
sweet article. I liked this quote;
"The New York City Marathon now has closed its lists with more than 10,000 entries, and Chicago expects as many, even with an exploitative $10 entry fee."
Sorry I can't tell if that's serious or not, I was born in 1985.
Massatwoshits wrote:
Anyone else notice the discrepancy in the official times from this article?
http://recoveryourstride.blogspot.com/2009/11/1978-falmouth-road-race-when-bill.htmland the results posted here?
1 32:31 Bill Rodgers GBTC CR
2 32:37 Mike Roche New Jersey
3 32:53 Craig Virgin Athletics West
4 33:02 Mike Slack Minn, MN
5 33:04 Greg Fredericks State College, PA
6 33:07 Hillary Tuwei U. Richmond (KEN)
7 33:10 Bruce Bickford Northestern TC
8 33:12 Bob Hodge GBTC
9 33:18 Greg Meyer GBTC
10 33:20 Alberto Salazar GBTC
I wonder why the different time results???
That's odd.
The results that I've posted are the correct results, except for the typo. Rodgers set the course record of 32:21, which matches the historical result on the Falmouth website.
But the times in that newspaper clipping are weird. There's no rhyme or reason in them, sometimes 15 sec off, seometimes 25 seconds , sometimes 30 seconds.
They were next day "unofficial" newspaper results. I am not sure what would make them so "off", but race timing and collating results were very different back then.
Thanks to everyone who is posting these old pictures and the links to the stories!
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