He also won Olympic marathon silver behind Abebe Bikila in 1964.
https://www.athleticsweekly.com/athletics-news/distance-legend-basil-heatley-dies-1039924131/
He also won Olympic marathon silver behind Abebe Bikila in 1964.
https://www.athleticsweekly.com/athletics-news/distance-legend-basil-heatley-dies-1039924131/
Great story, didn’t know guys were well below 50 in 10 miles at that time. Cross country, too, a real iron man.
RIP.
From the article:
Heatley set a world record for 10 miles with 47:47 to beat his hero Emil Zatopek’s mark. On his favourite surface he won the English ‘National’ cross country title three times in the early 1960s and in 1961 triumphed in the 1961 International Cross Country Championship
Despite running shoe technology being in its infancy, Heatley told AW in a 2016 interview that he ran 120-125 miles per week self-coached “when mileage mattered” and raced around 50 times each year. As for the prospect of a two-hour marathon one day, he said: “why not?”
RIP. We might look at times from then and think they're pretty slow, but so much was different then. He was pretty tough.
First sub 2:14 marathoner?
Why not say former marathon world record holder?
Or former workd best.
Rest in peace.
Rest in Peace and Good Running wherever you may be !
X-Runner wrote:
First sub 2:14 marathoner?
Why not say former marathon world record holder?
Or former workd best.
Not recognized by IAAF. Dunno why.
Alan
1955 wrote:
RIP. We might look at times from then and think they're pretty slow, but so much was different then. He was pretty tough.
Back in the day when men were men, worked a full time job, drank beer, ate steak, egg and chips and ran 100 miles+ in fucking plimsolls:
https://www.shuperb.co.uk/dek-retro-toecap-lace-plimsolls-white-p8902X-Runner wrote:
First sub 2:14 marathoner?
Why not say former marathon world record holder?
Or former workd best.
First sub-2:13:56.
No poncy SJW types in those days. wrote:
1955 wrote:
RIP. We might look at times from then and think they're pretty slow, but so much was different then. He was pretty tough.
Back in the day when men were men, worked a full time job, drank beer, ate steak, egg and chips and ran 100 miles+ in fucking plimsolls:
Plimsolls, those were the days:
https://www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/news-photo/former-marathon-runner-arthur-newton-offering-advice-to-news-photo/3431668No poncy SJW types in those days. wrote:
1955 wrote:
RIP. We might look at times from then and think they're pretty slow, but so much was different then. He was pretty tough.
Back in the day when men were men, worked a full time job, drank beer, ate steak, egg and chips and ran 100 miles+ in fucking plimsolls:
https://www.shuperb.co.uk/dek-retro-toecap-lace-plimsolls-white-p8902
And to think there are some Americans today pampered and no other job than running and still can't run close to his time. Message to all young runners, it's called grit, hard work, determination, dedication etc. Don't let science and the modern age get in the way. Work hard and that's how your dream become reality.
Pansy wrote:
No poncy SJW types in those days. wrote:
Back in the day when men were men, worked a full time job, drank beer, ate steak, egg and chips and ran 100 miles+ in fucking plimsolls:
https://www.shuperb.co.uk/dek-retro-toecap-lace-plimsolls-white-p8902And to think there are some Americans today pampered and no other job than running and still can't run close to his time. Message to all young runners, it's called grit, hard work, determination, dedication etc. Don't let science and the modern age get in the way. Work hard and that's how your dream become reality.
Well said
Heatley runs 2:16 and passes Tsuburaya in the stadium for silver--finishing four minutes behind Bikila, who cut Healey's world best by a hundred seconds (about the 1:54:50 mark--full race "coverage" starts at about 1:42:00):
Runningart2004 wrote:
X-Runner wrote:
First sub 2:14 marathoner?
Why not say former marathon world record holder?
Or former workd best.
Not recognized by IAAF. Dunno why.
Alan
in
The idea was that there was variation in marathon course. Some were faster than others so it was considered sort of meaningless to have a record because the record may actually have been an inferior performance to a slower time from tougher conditions. Records were set on tracks.
jesseriley wrote:
Great story, didn’t know guys were well below 50 in 10 miles at that time. Cross country, too, a real iron man.
Zatopek ran 48:10 on the track in the early 1950s.
"And to think there are some Americans today pampered and no other job than running and still can't run close to his time. Message to all young runners, it's called grit, hard work, determination, dedication etc. Don't let science and the modern age get in the way. Work hard and that's how your dream become reality."
Difficult to think of a more amateur sport than athletics in the UK in the 1960s! Read also the life stories of runners such as Ron Hill, Jim Alder etc to appreciate that Heatley was not alone in working full time, running 100+ miles a week and mixing it with the world's best
Note the frequency with which he raced - something he shared with most other top Brits from that era. Is it possible that many of today's elites in the western world don't race often enough, don't compete seriously in X Country events?
HRE wrote:
Runningart2004 wrote:
Not recognized by IAAF. Dunno why.
Alan
in
The idea was that there was variation in marathon course. Some were faster than others so it was considered sort of meaningless to have a record because the record may actually have been an inferior performance to a slower time from tougher conditions. Records were set on tracks.
Is it not recognized because Polytechnic was point to point from Windsor to London?
Ackley wrote:
HRE wrote:
in
The idea was that there was variation in marathon course. Some were faster than others so it was considered sort of meaningless to have a record because the record may actually have been an inferior performance to a slower time from tougher conditions. Records were set on tracks.
Is it not recognized because Polytechnic was point to point from Windsor to London?
No. It was not recognized because NOTHING was recognized as a world record then at the marathon. I don't know when that changed but there were only world records for distances run on the track at that time. Marathon times were recorded and when someone ran faster than anyone had ever done it was recorded and became the new standard and some people would call the performance a world record. But it was not a record in the way that Clarke's 10,000 or Jazy's mile was and the official term for Edelen's time, Heatley's time, Bikila's time, etc, was "world best" to denote that they were not official world records.