I was looking through the inagural issue of Ultrarunning Magazine from 1981, which is available online. I noticed a couple things that caught my attention. One, there's an article on the Ironman World Championship (referred to in 1981 as the International Triathlon). Its an interesting piece about the race before it really gained notoriety--there were only 326 starters.
The second piece was an article on the Knickerbocker 60K, a race I've run three times. The winner in 1981 was Terry Knickerbocker with a time of 3:40:42. That's a 5:55 pace, for those of you keep track at home. No, I didn't mistype that. 5:55 for 37.2 miles. Another incredible fact, Terry had just come off 27 straight 100 mile weeks. That's a lot of miles folks.
If you have some free time, take a few moments to compare the finishing times listed in that article to recent Knickerbocker results. Just like the marathon, it seems as Americans are getting slower.
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