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...freedom and joy of connecting with that ball." Ellie McGrath, who wrote the accompanying story on physiology and how it affects women's sports, was also steered away from athletics as a child. Three years ago she began long-distance running as a diversion, took on the Yonkers marathon to test herself, survived the 26.2-mile course and was hooked. Now she averages 30 to 40 miles a week up New York's Riverside Park to the George Washington Bridge and back. She also trains and competes regularly on one of the best amateur women's teams...
McGrath's experience in the New York City marathon underlines the thesis of our story. In 1976, running the 26.2-mile course in 3 hr. 46 min., she was the 22nd woman to finish. That year 88 women started in the race. Last year 260 started, and 68 finished in 3 hr. 45 min. or less. Something is happening out there. Fast...
...year later, she had worked up to 50 miles a week and entered her first Boston Marathon, finishing 29th among women runners. This year, she was 12th, breaking the esteemed 3-hr, barrier with a time of 2 hr., 54 min. for the 26.2-mile marathon distance. (In all, some 200 women completed the course.) The loneliness?and the hardship?of the long-distance runner leave her unfazed: "I have more self-confidence, more energy than I had before. And when I run in the rain, I feel about six years...
...Harvard junior varisty kept the Crimson's perfect afternoon intact with a 28-second annihilation of their Yale counterparts, setting the stage for the varsity marathon that everyone had come for in the first place...
...Governor makes enemies, and three Democrats have a shot at upsetting Finch: his predecessor, former Governor Bill Waller, 51, a folksy Jackson lawyer who has a broad black following after twice prosecuting the accused murderer of Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers; Columbia Attorney Maurice Dantin, 48, a lean marathon runner who seems to have inherited the help of some key Eastland supporters; and Charles Sullivan, 53, a former Lieutenant Governor from Clarksdale with strength in the northern part of the state. Running as an independent with unknown impact is Charles Evers, brother of the slain Medgar and mayor of Fayette...