Just listened to Jay Johnson's interview with Dathan Ritzenhein on his Run Faster podcast. I think he stopped doing them a couple years ago and this was one of the first, so it is a number of years ago. Ritz had just moved to Michigan.
Anyway, Jay points out that Wetmore had him add up the races his Senior year of high school. Ritz say that indeed that happened and he came up with 76. Johnson seemed surprised but perhaps less so than I was. I mean, I may have done 6. I might be rounding up there. I've never been a super-frequent racer myself, and could handle a little more as a teenager than now, but I think I did 4 last year. So 76 seems shocking to me.
What do all of you think of this? He may mean 8 months (or whatever a school year is) as he is almost certainly not referring to a calendar year. Even if his count was off a little or poorly remembered, still.......
By the way, it comes early in the show but I would encourage any and all to listen. It's very easy to find...