Interview - Greg Meyer, 1983 Boston Marathon champion

Great interview... thanks for sharing!!!

Thanks. That's a good interview. Hey Juan, do you have anything new coming up on your excellent site?

Very nice...interview. Cohen gets it right in the body of his interview but he needs to correct calling Greg 'the last American to win Boston.' In fact, the last American is Greg's fellow Wolverine grad Lisa Weidenbach (Rainsberger)in '85. I rarely hear anybody refer to her as 'the last' but she is.

Interestingly, I believe Lisa was also living in Boston when she won...as was Greg.

I love this part of the interview.

"First car My brother’s hand me down 1966 Chevy Impala with a 227 4 barrel… it was a beast! I sold it to my college coach Ron Warhurst later for $50. Heck, it may have been his first car too!"

I've driven that car.

Let's not forget that this is the same Gary Cohen who started the "Chafing" thread in order to promote his website. He is just doing the same thing here, only this time it is something a bit more useful.

Gary is not off of the hook yet.

Most websites share their info to pass knowledge around. It may direct a very small amount of traffic that is somewhat beneficial, but overall is of benefit to the readers. This was a cool interview.

In response to "Very nice...interview. Cohen gets it right in the body of his interview but he needs to correct calling Greg 'the last American to win Boston.' In fact, the last American is Greg's fellow Wolverine grad Lisa Weidenbach (Rainsberger)in '85. I rarely hear anybody refer to her as 'the last' but she is."

Good point... there were several places in the interview that left off the word "man." This has been corrected. A tremendous amount of effort by the interviewer and Greg Meyer resulted in this interview. Corrections are always appreciated. Enjoy!!!

malmo wrote:

I love this part of the interview.

"First car My brother’s hand me down 1966 Chevy Impala with a 227 4 barrel… it was a beast! I sold it to my college coach Ron Warhurst later for $50. Heck, it may have been his first car too!"

I've driven that car.

He meant to say 327.

I had the next version up in my 69 Cutlass which was a 350, with a high performance Cam.

Cam with a 2 barrelbut upgraded to a Holly

Okay I'll highjack the thread a bit here.

'69 Cutlass 442 was the first car I bought too.

It had a 400 cubic inch engine.

I'll bring it back on track :)

That was a great interview about a great runner. I love the attitude and outlook towards running the studs from the 70's and 80's had. Meyer had tremendous range and was an all around distance runner in the true sense of the word.

Here's a great 10 months worth of his training log from Bob Hodge's website:

http://www.bunnhill.com/BobHodge/TrainingLogs/meyer8283.htm

Thanks for the link to Bobby Hodge's website and that training log - great stuff!!!

Really like Greg's diet plan of oatmeal, soup and sex...

Yeah, what a sense of humor, huh? He sounds like a really neat guy, no resentment about being probably the most overlooked distance runner in U.S. history.

Okay, had the oatmeal for breakfast...

Now have the soup for lunch and good luck after that...

AKMarmoset wrote:

Yeah, what a sense of humor, huh? He sounds like a really neat guy, no resentment about being probably the most overlooked distance runner in U.S. history.

Okay, had the oatmeal for breakfast...

Is he much overlooked? I tend to think so, but I don't much talk old-school running except with a guy that used to compete with Greg on occasion, so I'm not sure what the rest of the running/general public knows/doesn't know about Meyer.

If he is overlooked, it seems a real shame since his record shows the guy was an absolute beast at a wide range of distances back in his day.

One of the most versatile runners in US History and a better guy. Sub 4 minute miler; Sub 8:30 Steepler; Still standing AR 10M 46:13 (25 years, I know Hall probably split faster): Boston:Win in 2:09..Just a to name a few.

Too bad Greg didn't make the 1984 Olympic team and race well in L.A. as that is about the only hole in his great running resume.

Another amazing thing about Greg Meyer is his great running at 15k - 25k. He broke the World record for 15k at Gasparilla, then broke the AR two more times behind DeCastella and Musyoki setting WRs.

ditto on Wendy C... she's a babe... scwiiiiiingggg!!!