Seventeen miles into th e Chicago Mara­thon, offi cially called " America's Mara­thon/Chi cago, " Stev e Jones glanced to his left. Ther e, lead ing a ga ng of six down Wells Street, was last year's world champion and pre-ra ce favo rite, Rob de Caste lla , who had shoulde red the respon­sibility for much of the pace that day.

In tu rn, a moment lat er , de Castella glanced to his right. Who was there? Slightly shorte r than himself, thin-faced and sport ing a mangy blond mustache and goatee that only a moth er could love, running with out apparent effor t, was ... de Cas te lla looked again to make sure . St eve Jones .

De Cas te lla and Jon es had just regi s­tered regard for each oth er in th e only manner th at runners do in the last fe w miles of the marathon, sizing up the com­petiti on with a side g lance, checking to see who see ms ready for th e final strug­gle. Havin g done so, the y returned to the battle at hand , a match of bodies and wills. Nine miles remained.

" I was trying to ignore how th e oth­er ru nners were doing, " said de Cas te lla later , "and jus t run whatever I could ."

De Cas te lla's double-ta ke was ' sig­nificant. J ones, after all , had never com­pleted a marathon, and the pace tha t mornin g had averaged a brisk 4:55 pel' mile, dropping accomplished marathon runners like Kenya's Simeon Kigen , who had posted a 2:10:17 win in the Sa n Fra n­cisco Marathon two months earlier in Augu st, and his fellow Kenyan Joseph Nzau, the 1 98 :~ Chicago cha mpion.

Kigen, a fter se ll ing the high a lti­tude 10K world mark of 28:03 in Denver ea rlier in the month in a decisive win over Olympic ma ra t ho n champ ion Ca rl os Lopes, was sufferi ng fr om the lingering effe cts of a bad cold, and had begun to

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KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES

Leaving Lopes and de Costell o behind, unheralded SteveJonesof Walesset a world

record, won a lot of money and gave America's Marathon in Chicago the

recognition it so desired,

drop off th e pace at 16 miles. Nzau, in turn, who had ru n a marath on two week s ea r lier, was clearl y in the rac e for rea­sons other than victo rv and had led th e pac k through some of the early miles be­fore dr opping off the pace shortly after the halfway point.

But thoug h the wanin g fortunes of the two Kenyans may not have surpr ised de Castella, Jon es's pre sence seemed to. And if de Cas te lla was a t least a littl e sur­pris ed, conside r the shock the rest of th e running community would soon be ex­per iencing-especially an American run­ning publ ic more attuned to the success­es of road racers than th e reputations of tr ack and cross-country ru nners-when th ey learned how fast J ones could travel 26 miles , 385 yards .

It would sound like a bus full of owls sa luting the Welshman af te r his fir s t marat hon. " Whoooooo?"

Steve Jones, thou gh, des erved bet­ter. A memb er of Bri tain 's Royal Ail' FOI'ce s tationed in Barry, Wales,' the 29­yea r-old had found enou gh time in his schedule over the pas t few years to post tr ack times of 13:18.6 and 27:39.14 in th e 5,000- and 10,000-meter runs, wh ile fin­ishing th ird in the World Cross -Country Championships last Mar ch and eig hth in the Olympic 10,000meters. As a distance runner, J ones' s credent ials were solid.

As a ma rathon runn er, though , he was one of a growing numb er of novices who see m to' profit from their lack of background at the distance. This was , in fac t , only Jon es's seco nd attempt at th e distance. A yea r ag o, he spent several weeks tr ainin g a t 7,000 feet in Park City, Uta h, wit h fellow Brit Hugh Jones. The two shared a tr aining regimen and great expectations for th e Chicago Marathon. It ofte n seemed tha t Steve, his intense

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road trainin g punctua ted with pr olonged bursts of spee d, was eve n more read y than Hu gh for a g reat race .

Sho r t ly before th at marathon, thou gh , Steve deve loped a foot problem that would later be identified as a stress fr acture. In Chicago, he laced his shoe as tigh tly as possible before the race, hop­ing to stifle th e pain, th en twisted the an­kle in a poth ole at 13 miles . He dropped out shor t ly afte rwards, while Hu gh Jones went on to finish second in a close race with Jo seph Nzau .

Steve accep ted his ill fortune good­naturedly. " I'm the fit tes t cripple in Wales ," he announced aft er returning home, the n set his ma rathon sights on Chicago 1984.

This year, Jones trained again in Utah, sandwiching tw o Air Force vaca­tions together to g ive himself five weeks to pr epare for his second marathon at­te mpt. In th e interim, he ra ced a half ma rathon in Day ton, Ohio, s top ping at nine miles to help a wheelchair racer who had fallen but still beating Mark Curp by 20 seconds in 1:03:08. Then at the 15K Run Again st Crime in El Paso a week be­fore Chicago, he fin ish ed seco nd to Lopes, beating Kigen , Gab r iel Kamau, Michae l Musyoki, Zack Ba rie, Gidam is Shaha nga, Paul Cummings and man y other top road racers. Clear ly, he could race well. But a marath on?

Steve Jones of Wales, whose only previous marathon was a DNF at Chicago the previous year, was a shocking victor this year in world record time. Above: It was quite a plum for race organizer Bob Bright, who aggressively pursued top runners for his race, trying to surpass New York.

"Ste ve is one of those guys like J ohn Trea cy," his fri end Tony Sta ynings said a fte r EI Paso. " When he runs a mara­thon, it'll be a good one."

Now, at the lI-mile mark in Chicago when Jones and de Cas te lla exchanged glan ces, those word s began to take on their full meaning. J ones looked less pressured and mor e in control than any of the oth er front runners , although ther e were certainly plenty of them wor th keeping in mind . Th e rest of the pack included Carlos Lopes , Boston champion Geoff' Smith of Br itain, as well as Gabriel Kaman of Kenya and Mexico's Martin Pitayo. And it wa s Lopes , certain­ly, who posed the g reatest threat.

But it wa s also Lopes whose post­Olympic conditioning, and es pecially his racing se r ious ness on this day, was in question . He had won in El Pa so, but was he ready for anoth er bone-cu tt ing mara­thon so soon after Los Angeles?

Earlier in the ra ce, in fa ct , Lopes had see med to be having' more than his share of problems. At seven miles he had sud­denly disappeared fr om the pack, seem­ing to confirm the notion s of those who felt he was only in Chicago for play and

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pay , not to run a world- class rac e, As Lopes reported later , though, another runner had actually s te pped on his heel, cau sing him to lose a shoe . After pulling it back on, he regained his spot with the lead er s .

Lopes also had troubl e finding his wa tel' bottles along the rou te and se emed to dawdle at several of the aid stations, lookin g around for help . The back and forth position of Lopes throughout much of the ra ce sugges ted mor e the s tray dog, s printing ahead , then behind, then beside th e pack, than the eff icient travel of the ser ious marathon runner. By 17 miles , though, it was a differ ent story. Lopes was in position behind de Castella as he had been in L.A., mor e the wolf, or perhaps the fox, than the dog . The race was a bout to be mad e, and Lopes, de Cas te lla , Jones , Smith , Kamau and Pitay o were all in contention .

At 17'11 miles , the Chicago course took a left turn onto North Avenue, and the runner s were suddenly upon an aid s ta tion. In the confusion over cup s and bo ttl es and turn s , Gabri el Ka ma u t r ipped and fell , landing hard on his right shoulde r and hip. As he s tumbled, so did

Geoff Smith. Smith's tumble , th ough, was

abruptly halted by Jones, perhaps the most cour teous runner in the spor t. In this case, Jones grabbed Smith 's right arm as the latter wen t down, bringing him back to his feet. It was a remarkable display of savvy and poise, Jones was clea r ly in control, of himself and the rest of the field. That fact would become even more obvious a few miles later.

The pack was still together as it pass ed th e 19-mile mark in 1:33:40. This was ju st under 4:56 per mile, 30 se cond s faster than the pr evious year's pa ce, and on line to a 2:09:15 marathon. Most run­ners would have been sa tisifed, Jones , as it turned out, wasn 't.

"Someone will pick up the pace be­tween 1G and 20 miles," he had predicted the day before. At 19 miles , see ing no one else int er ested in doing so, J ones fulfilled his own prophecy. Suddenly he wa s surg­ing , and t he oth er five lead ers were s trug g ling to respond. Only Karnau, who had regain ed a spot in th e pack after his fall , was able to s tay close , and then only briefly. Lopes and de Castella faltered.

" I tri ed to stav with him for a whil e after he broke away from the pack," said de Castella later. "I held him for a while , but he was ju st runnin g too fast."

Indeed, Jones 's 20th and 21st miles were 4:47 and 4:42, respectiv ely. At that pace, he would continue to leave the gold medalist, the world champion and the othe r big name s of marathoning behind in an ever-lengt hening view through the wr ong end of the tele scop e. But what he was leaving was one thin g , and what he wa s approaching wa s anothe r an d alto­gether more interesting thing . As he passed the 21st mile, unh eralded mara­thoner Ste ve Jones was beginning to close in on Alberto Sala zar's world mara­than record of 2:08:13.

It wasn't totally unexpected, of course, that someone in th e ra ce that day would be within reach of the world mark. Chicago off icia ls, und er the g uidance of exec utive director Bob Bright and the support ofthe Beatrice Corpo rat ion, had assembled a field that othe r directors could only moan, whimper and dream abo ut. Beatrice's to tal spo nso rs hip was sta ted as $1.3 million, of wh ich $250,000 would go for prize money . A fa il' amount of th e rest went for gu arantees to entice the top nam es in the spor t, which wa s sa id to be $50,000 api ece for Lopes and de Cas te lla . Bea trice would also bu y all the adv ertisin g time for th e local and net­work television coverage, essent ially

into worldwide celebrities. They don't re­alize the one thing money can not buy is th e city of New York . That's what we have."

Lebow's argument was not with out mer it . The public's notion of what consti­tutes the " premier" marathon in the wor ld, an und eclared title that both New York and Chicago see m to covet, has as much or more to do with intangibles and the public's view of the event than with the speed of the top finish er s. While not totally disagreeing with this, Br ight of­fered a slightly differ ent view, that rec­ognition given the elite field would en­gender g reate r visibility for Chicago, thus s treng thening the event overa ll.

"What we've focused on th e last few years has been quality," sa id Bright. " We've tri ed to put on the best marath on we can logis tica lly, adm inis tr ati vely and competi tively. Three yea rs ago people didn' t know we existed. Now, as fa r as the ru nning wor ld is concerned, it' s New York and Chicago. New York was the best in the world; now some people feel that Chicago is in a position where we can take control. If we pu t our nose ahead of New York this year, we'll be gone."

Nor could Br ight, ag low with the poss ibilit ies his invited field was sug­ges ting for race day, resist goading Lebow. "The handwri ting is on the wall ," he sa id with a mischievous gri n duri ng a pre-race inter view. " New York should move to the spr ing ."

Lebow, meanwhi le, was per sonally very visible in Chicago, both at invited­runn el' fun ctions and as an entrant in the race. To man y, Lebow and Bright see m like cha rac te rs out of " Dallas," Lebow the wily J .R. Ewing, Bright the aggres­sive newcomer Cliff Barnes. And though the latter see med to be on the top this seaso n, it was hard to imagi ne that this was the end of the war. Lebow was asked if he might, in fact, have something up his sleeve .

" I do," he replied with a gr in. Vacant bravado? Perhaps, but when

ten thousand runners had finally assem­bled on Sunday morni ng at Daley Plaza, and the ba lloons released to celebra te the sta rt of the marathon wer e dre nched in rain and scattered by th e gusts among the gray buildings of downtown Chica­go, ther e were those who wonder ed if Lebow might have found a way to win the skirmish by man ipulating the weath­er. It appeared tha t one of th e best mara­thon fields ever assembled would spend two hours in the rinse cycle, and Bob Brigh t' s only consolat ion wou ld lie in

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Portugal's Rosa Mota , top, improved her PR from the Olympics with a 2:26:01 to successfully defend her title. Austral ia's Lisa Mart in, middle , also improved her PR, running second in 2:27:40 to become the eighth-fastest.female marathoner ever. Norway's Ingrid Kristiansen, fatigued after a year of heavy racing , was a distant third in 2:30:21.

knowing that Lebow would be buff eted in the wind and rain along with everyone else .

Tha t prob lem sorted its elf out ea rly enoug h though, as the rain stopped and the wind abated soon after the gun fil-ed, leavin g tempera tures in the mid-40s, with not enoug h wind to scuttl e a fa st race. And by 21 miles, all the questions abou t which rac e director was doing what and to whom seemed unimportant und er th e determined charge of Steve Jones , as he took command of the race and began his long push toward th e fin­ish. With five miles left, it was ju st the runner , a human being in pain during th e last stages of a marathon , that was at issue.

Later, J ones would say that al­though he rea lized the pace was fas t, he had not known how close he was to the recor d until two kilometer s befo re the finish , when a spectator yelle d to him. In­stead, he worri ed about th e men behind him and his own wani ng stre ngth.

" I felt in dan ger a hund re d yards af­ter I bro ke away," he admi tted after­wards. " I had doubts the whole las t six miles."

Turning in mile a fte r mile at sub­4:50 pace, it soon became clea r that, if th e man 's body held up, the world record would fall. And as the pain began to in­tensify over the final mile , J ones 's gri­mace became more pronounced. The ef­fort show ed clea rly in the st rained lines of his face. .

As the lead er came into the view of spectators at th e finish , accompanied by police lights and th e chopping of helicop­ter blades , a chee r went up. The clock was tickin g off seconds in th e 2:07 range as J ones sprinte d for th e line. The clock turned to 2:08, an d J ones crossed at 2:08:05, eight seco nds und er Salazar's record , to win $35,000 plus a reported $50,000 or more in "promot ional work " for the record . Salazar himself, on hand to a ss is t wit h ne tw ork co verage , watched on a TV monito r as the record he had set in New York three years ea r lier fell to a Welsh man in Chicago . He see med deligh ted to have see n it hap pen.

A minute later Lopes crossed the line, in 2:09:06, with de Castella three sec­onds behind. With out J ones, th e ra ce be­tween th em would have been inter es ting, and their times noteworthy. Today, though, th eir perform an ces wer e largely over shadowed.

Likewise, excellent performances in the women 's field by Olympic bronze medalis t Rosa Mota and Australian Lisa

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The Man From Wales BYCLIFFTEMPLE

World marathon record holder Ste ve Jones of Barry, South Wales, 29, began running wh en he joined th e Royal Air Force ten years ago. He has run inter­nationally s ince 1977, wh en he was 103rd in the World Cross-Country Cha mpions hips. He's run eve ry world cross -country meet s ince , fini shing thi rd thi s year in a race won by Car los Lopes . His bes t track times are 13:18.6 for 5,000 met ers (1982) and 27:39.14 fo r th e 10,000 (1983). His record in ma­jo r cha mpionship 10,000-meter ra ces includes a se venth in th e '82 Europe­an s, an eleventh in the '82 Common­wealth Ga mes, a tw elfth in th e '83 World Cha mpions hips ancl an eighth at th e L.A. Olympi cs. He is 5'91j/ and 135 pounds . An RAF technician , he is th e fa the r of two childre n. When he re­turned home t he da y after his world­reco rd run in Chicago , our chief Eu ro­pean correspondent , Cliff Temple of Britain , talk ed with him. THE RUNNER: You have been a world­class 10,000-meter track runner for so me years, but after Chicago do you now feel you wer e concentra ting on th e wrong event all along? . JONES: It's hard to say after the record , isn't it ? I s t ill feel I hav e a lot lef t a t 10,000 meters and can run much faster th an my bes t of 27:39.14. THE R' NNER: You narrowlv missed th e British Olympic team in 1980 as a s teeplechaser , didn't you? JONES: Ye.', I was fourth in our tri al s ra ce and ra n 8:32.0 that summe r, bu t it was a foolish mis take, mad e simply be­cause I didn't feel I had enoug h back­ground to make th e team at 10,000 me­te rs t h ro ug h inj u ry the p rev ious winte r . I then fini shed seco nd to Nick Rose in th e AAA champions hip 10,000, wh ich th at year was held afte r th e Olympics , and ran 28:13, ranking me second in Britain behind Nick fo r th e whol e season . So perhaps I could have made th e Moscow Olympics at 10,000. THE RUNNER: When will you run an­other marathon ? JONES: Probably not until Chicago 1985, and I might run the marat hon a t th e 19 6 Commonwea lth Games in Ed­inbur gh if I am se lected for Wales. But I'll still be aiming mainly for the 10,000 meters there. I don't see myself conce n­t rating on the marathon until after 1986. THE RUNNER: You said after dr oppin g out of Chicago with a foot injury in 1983 at 16 miles that yo u didn 't know what all the fuss was about in the marathon. Do vou s t ill fee l th at way? JO~ES: Yes, I s t ill t hink 'tha t it 's easy if

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pared for it. I did ha ve an edge over most of t he others in Chicago this year becau se I just didn't know what would happen after 20 miles . Every one was telling me I' d collapse and hit the wall , but I didn 't exp erience any of that. In the last tw o miles my legs were a bit sore , but in those weather conditions, cold and wind y, you're bound to get some tighteni ng up. THE RUNNER: Wha t was your Chicago preparation? JONES: I was ju s t ending a s ix-wee k road rac ing tour in th e States , mai nly as a holiday for my wife Ann ette and my sons , Matthew (he' s se ven) and Dafyd (he's three and a half). We were based at Park City, Utah, which has an alti­tude of 7,000 fee t, and I spent three weeks th ere in 1983, so I knew what it wa s like.

After Boston winner Geoff Smith and Olympic bronze medalist Charles Spedding, Jones is the third British runner to emerge at the top of world-class marathoning thisIyear.

I raced nearly every weekend and covered nearly 18,000 miles in air trav­el, but my training was really going well. I wa s much fitter th an a t th e Olympi cs. I upp ed my training mileage from its normal summer level of 75 miles a week to H5, which at 7,000 feet is quite hard , dropped my shorter inter­va ls a nd concentrated on longer inter­vals , like 4 x 5 minutes with 90 seconds recovery, 8 x 3 minutes, 10 x 2 minutes or 12 x 90 se conds , with equivalent re­covery periods. But my longest sing le run in four months was the 1S-miler I did th e Su nday be fore the Chicago mar­athon , and in fact my longest ever training run has bee n th e '20 miles I usu ally do on a Sunday morning- in winter . THE RUNNER: How did you approach th e race me nta lly?

JONES: I hop ed to run ab out 2:10, and my main aim wa s to break th e Welsh record of 2:12 and put it out of reach . THE RUNNER: When did you firs t real­ize you were on world-record pace? JONES: I only realized that aro und 22 miles , wh en I figured out if I kept it up I could run under 2:09. But I was in no man 's land th en , and anything could s t ill hav e happened . I was fir s t a ware of t he exact time onl y right near the end, when I saw the finish clock reading 2:07:32, and I had to watch it ticking aw ay over the last 200 mete rs . thoug ht, th e clock's going too fas t , not that I was running too slow. THE RUNNER: Did you know exac tly what t he record was? JONE S:Only that it wa s in th e low 2:08s, but once I wa s over the finish line I knew I had broken it. THE RUNNElt: What sort of welcome have you had on your return to Wales '? JONES: Incr edibl e. Th e phone hasn 't stopped rin ging. When I go t back to my work as a technician at th e Royal Air For ce in St. Athan four da ys aft er th e race, th e s ta t ion's commander invite d me to join him for champagne. My ma tes made a special chariot out of a trolley in the hanger where we work and pull ed my wif e and mysel f in it. Th ey pr esented Anne t te with flowers and gave me a medal a nd a laurel wr eath. Th ey are great company. Th ey are th e people I work with and ge t my hand s dirty with. They could relate to me beca use I'm just Steve to th em, not someone like Sebastian Coe or Ste ve Cram, whom they just see on TV . THE RUNNER: What sort of work do you do, a nd how does it fit in with your training ? JONES: As a technician I have to s t rip down a nd rebuild planes , which can be vei·y intricate or very hard manual work a t tim es. I use my own t ime for training, a t lunch breaks an d after work. I'v e always wanted to comb ine my working career in th e RAF with my ru nning ca ree r , and I ma y hav e to look more close ly at that now. THE RUNNim: How long are you com­mitted to th e RAF? JONES: Until 1995. I'm a corpo ral now, and by th en I could hope to be a chief techni cian or a flight se rgean t, tw o ste ps abo ve my current rank. The frus ­trating as pec t is that at present I st ill ha ve to ge t permission to go to a ra ce at which I might win $10,000 or $15,000, far more th an I earn in a whole year with the RAF. . THE RUNNER: Have you th ough t a bout th e fin an cial implicat ions of now being world record holder in the marath on ? JONES: I ha ven't really had a cha nce to think too mu ch about it yet. But when I do, it 's almos t frightening .

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Martin were largely lost in the ex cite­ment over Jones 's record. Mota, a fte r runnin g with In g rid K r isti an sen through swift ear ly sp lits of 33:52 (lOK ) and 51:14 (l5K) , s lowed s lig ht ly afte r the halfway mark, bu t sti ll ra n away from th e field to post a new course record and personal best of 2:26:01.

"I was less worried with my place to­day than with my tim e," said Mota. "That's why I ran a minute fas te r than in the Olympics."

Martin, meanwhile, after running through five an e! ten kms fas te r than planned, thought, "This is my fourth marathon a nd I've never had a bad ex pe ­r ience. Mayb e today will be my first," In ­s tead, she ca ught a ll of t he women ex­cept Mota a nd turned in a persona l bes t of 2:27:40.

In spite of excellent performan ces among man y of the top male and femal e runners, th ou gh , it was naturall y th e new wor ld record holder, th e nice guy from th e Roya l Air Fo rce wh o help s peo­ple up during races, wh o was most mem ­orable. After th e record had been se t , a quartet of dig nita ries that includ ed Bright, Chicag o Mayor Harold Washing­ton and representati ves of Beatrice , con­gratulated eac h othe r a t the finis h line. In spite of th e rain, it ha d bee n Chicago's day to sh ine in th e worl d's eyes .

A few day s ea r lier , Bright had com­mented on th e city's detach ment fr om the marathon by saying, " I don 't think Chicago knows what th is means yet. It's s ignif icant th a t Ameri ca 's Ma rathon has

Comparing the Records In this chart, cumulative tim es a nd mile splits are given for both J ones a nd

Top Ten at a Glance MEN

1. Steve Jones (Wal ) 2. Carlos Lopes (Por) 8. Rob de Castella (Au s) 4. Gabriel Kamau (Ken) 5. Geoff Smith (GB) 6. Martin Pitayo (Mex ) 7. Jerry Kiernan (Ire) B. Kjell-Erik Stahl (Swe) 9. Agapius Masong (Tan)

10. Cor Lambregts (HoI)

WOMEN 1. Rosa Mota (Por) 2. Lisa Martin (Aus) 8. Ingrid Krist iansen (Nor) 4. Dor the Rasmussen (Den) 5. Lisa Larsen ( S) G. Glenys Quick (N2) 7. Regina Joyce (Ire) 8. .Jacqueline Gareau (Can ) 9. Rita Borralho (Por)

10. ;\1agda Ilands (Bel)

grown internationall y but th e impact reall y ha sn 't been seen in Chicago."

Indeed, civic and media inte rest in th e marathon in th e days leading up to the event had foc used as mu ch on who wa sn 't running (Benoit) , what injuries marathon runners sustain , why peo ple would have to be crazy to run a mara­thon, and how bad th e weather would be on race day, than on more upbea t aspects of the sport. Perhaps thi s was Chicago 's gruff way of showing affection .

Atany rate, Bri ghthad r eason afte r ­wards to be more optimistic about th e marathon's impact, both in Chicago and beyond. "I think that running a world record here is certainly g oing to help th e visibility of thi s event." Cha lk up ano the r record , thi s one for unders tatem en t.

With Jones 's perfor man ce fresh in his mind , Br ight could a lso afford to be gracious to th e other g uys . "The re's a lot said ab out compe tit ion between Chicago and Ne w York, or Boston for th a t mat­ter," sa id th e man who had seemingly grabbed th e upper hand a mong th e mar­athon crowd for th e mome nt. "It's no t that at all. What you try to do is the bes t you can for your marathon on thi s day. It may very well be th at the world record goes back to New York next week end. The goal is not to be better th an so meo ne else. The goal is to be ju st as goo d as we can be here. Today we were goo d. Tomor­row's another da y. "

If Bri ght wa s being ove rly modest, though, consid er the s tate ment of the man of th e hour, wh o had jus t run the

ICarlos Lopes lost a shoe at seven miles and took a good 20 seconds to get it back on,

marathon faster than anyone in history, After claiming that he had no plan s to run anot her marathon until nex t year 's Chicago race , an intention t ha t could like­ly fa ll in th e wake of appearance fee of­fers fr om othe r races that s hould eas ily top $100,000, listen ers were incredulou s. Why would th e man earning $595 a month in th e se rv ice not run again soo ne r '?

"I 'm not a ma ra th on runner ," said Steve Jones, th e I c:W world reco rd holder. !BNIS~

TIME 2:08:05 2:09:06 2:09:09 2:10:05 2:10:08 2:10:29 2:12:24 2:14:16 2:14:28 2:14:46

2:21j:01 2:27:40 2:30:21 2:30:42 2::31:31 2:32:53 2:35:05 2 :3 n :i3:~

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PRIZE MONEY $35,000 $23,000 $16,000 $11,000 ," ,000 $6,000 $5,000 $4,000 $3,500 $3,000

S35,OOO $2:~ , 000

$16,000 $11,000 '$8,000 $6,000 $4,000 ," J,OOO $2,500 $2,100

Salaza r.

Mile 1: Mile 2: Mile 3: Mile 4: Mile 5: Mile 6: Mile 7: Mile 8: Mile 9: Mile 10: Mile 11: Mile 12: Mile 13: Halfway: Mile 14: Mile 15: Mile 16: Mile 17: Mile 18: Mile 19: Mile 20: Mile 21: Mile 22: Mile 23: Mile 24: Mile 25: Mile 26: Final:

Jones Salazar 4:56 4:56 4:55 4:55 9:57 5:01 10:00 5:05

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30 THf: RUNNER: JANUARY 1985 Art: