Marine Corps Marathon Results 1980?

I ran that race. I finished in 2:40.39 The story I recall is that some, not all, of us went up on some grass in the park near the river at the direction of a military person. I did have the WP paper from the next day but finally threw it out along with a ton of RW/RT from over the years.

I think I actually asked for the results here on LR but came up empty-handed too.

Someone has them.

FWIW, I was on sub 2:37 pace for 21-22 miles and then the wheels came off. I vividly remember Jan Yerkes passing me in those last miles. I think she ran 2:37.

Please let me know here if you do find them.

What I forgot to say: he can try to contact the WP for the paper that next day. I'm sure they would have it in the archives.

Thanks, I'm looking into the archives option but so far no luck. Anybody?

Just did a quick search. It doesn't help you but here are the winners. I do believe these are time adjusted because Jan definitely beat me that day and I now remember that they added a specific time to our clock time. Imagine that?

1980 Michael E. Hurd, 2:18:31 Jan Yerkes, 2:41:48

I ran that race as well, the course was found to be short by a few tenths of a mile as reported in the Washington Papers the next day because of marine who was asked where the coffee wagon was and pointed in a direction that took all 10,000 runners off course.I finshed the race on a beautiful Sunny Day /50 Degree (Perfect running conditions) in 2:43:30 and figured my dream of qualifing for Boston Marathon (2:50) was assured.That headline seemed to dash my hopes on Sunday morning. However, Boston gave permission to the Marine Corp Marathon organization to give actual time and revised time on the official certificates awarded to all runners. My adjusted time was typed on the certificate at 2:45:20 and still well under the 2:50 Qualifing Requirement at Boston and stiil hangs in home. I could't run that following Spring because my third daughter was born around April 19th but on appeal to Boston and Will Clooney they agreed to give me a bye and run the race in Spring of 1982.

I am an aspiring marathoner and I have taken an interest in celebrity marathon finish times. 1980 is also the year that Justice Clarence Thomas claims, in his autobiography, to have run the Marine Corps Marathon in 3:11, but that sounds far-fetched; it would be almost unheard-of for a first-time marathoner who was (in his own words) fat and out of shape just the previous winter. I think he remembers it being 3:11, but it was actually 4:11. I wonder if they really don't have the records, or just have an unofficial policy of not revealing them because of the mix-up in the distance.

If all the finishers' times were indeed printed in the Washington Post the next day, it should be extremely easy to find them at any public library, which would have every issue of Washington Post on microfiche going back over 100 years. I want to solve this mystery about Clarence Thomas's marathon time.

odd they don't have the times.

i recently got my 1978 MCM time from them via email

Has anyone found the results?

I just might be able to get them, but I need a few weeks. A fellow runner once told me about his MCM archives and that he was on the verge of throwing them away, so I took them from him. This was about ten years ago and I have no idea what I did with them, but I will search my attic.

The reason why I wanted them in the first place was an acquaintance was dating a new guy and he told her he ran MCM as a master in 2:41. I searched ever possible year and I was able to conclude that it didn't happen. I never told her but after the breakup she said he was a big liar. I nodded.

thanks, 1979 may be needed too. it is unclear which marathon the guy (a non-runner?) claimed to do his first ever marathon in 3:11 with under half year training... The claim is for 1980, but some sources online say it was 1979.

bump anyone?

bump again. thread was "ghosted". could athlinks get the results for these older marathons? shouldn't they be public record?

I can tell exactly what happened because I was in the lead (along with Mick Hurd and Will Albers) at the time we turned incorrectly. The media truck turned through a cut-across so they could get shots of the leaders going around the end of Hains Point. We had been following the media truck for the whole race, so it made sense to keep following them. There was a Marine there who was telling the media truck where to turn, but I can't be sure that he was also supposed to be telling us to go a different way -- so we followed the truck. As it turns out, we should have continued straight and we cut off the tip of Hains Point and ended up running something like 300 yards short. We were told that the officials had to adjust for the 300 yards+, thus the times. Some of us also ran long in some places, but they don't take time off for that -- just add time for going short, which is what the rules require. Mick Hurd ended up crushing us in the last couple of miles. We're all still friends to this day.

Do you by chance have the results? See Mr. Saini's post above. I'm curious too.

11 years later and someone has found them!
How did you happen to find this thread?

It’s official: I did finish in 2:40:39! Lol.

Thanks for posting.

I tried to make it better readable in Photoshop but I didn't get it much better.

If you know the name of your dad you might be able to decipher it.

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For your scrapbook Pinkmonkey

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Fascinating thread!