Steve Jones article from The Runner Magazine in January 1985

KEEPING UP WITH
THE JONESES
Leaving Lopes and de Costell o behind,
unheralded Steve Jones of Wales set a world
record, won a lot of money and gave
America's Marathon in Chicago the
recognition it so desired,
BY DON KARDONG
Seventeen miles into th e Chicago Marathon,
offi cially called " America's Marathon/Chi
cago, " Stev e Jones glanced to
his left. Ther e, leading 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 shouldered 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 sporting a mangy blond mustache
and goatee that only a moth er could love,
running with out apparent effort, was
... de Cas te lla looked again to make
sure . Steve Jones.
De Cas te lla and Jon es had just registered
regard for each oth er in th e only
manner that runners do in the last fe w
miles of the marathon, sizing up the competiti
on with a side glance, 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 tella's double-ta ke was ' significant.
J ones, after all, had never completed
a marathon, and the pace that
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 n­
cisco Marathon two months earlier in
Augu st, and his fellow Kenyan Joseph
Nzau, the 1 9 8 :~ Chicago cha mpion.
Kigen, a fter se ll ing the high altitude
10K world mark of 28:03 in Denver
earlier in the month in a decisive win over
Olympic ma ra t ho n champ ion Ca rl os
Lopes, was suffering fr om the lingering
effe cts of a bad cold, and had begun to
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drop off th e pace at 16 miles. Nzau, in
turn, who had ru n a marath on two week s
ea rlier, was clearl y in the rac e for reasons
other than victorv 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 surprised
de Castella, Jon es's pre sence seemed to.
And if de Caste lla was at leasta littl e surprised,
consider 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 fastJ ones could travel
26 miles, 385 yards.
It would sound like a bus full of owls
sa luting the Welshman afte r his first
marat hon. " Whoooooo?"
Steve Jones, thou gh, des erved better.
A memb er of Britain 's Royal Ail'
FOI'ce stationed in Barry, Wales,' the 29­
yea 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 credentials 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 at 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
road trainin g punctua ted with pr olonged
bursts of spee d, was eve n more read y
than Hu gh for a great race.
Sho rt 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 shortly afterwards, 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 fittes 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, stop 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 riel Kamau,
Michael Musyoki, Zack Ba rie, Gidam is
Shaha nga, Paul Cummings and man y
other top road racers. Clearly, 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
afte 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 tella 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 Britain, 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 post­
Olympic conditioning, and es pecially his
racing serious ness on this day, was in
question . He had won in El Pa so, but was
he ready for anoth er bone-cutt 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 suggested mor e the s tray
dog, s printing ahead , then behind, then
beside th e pack, than the eff icient travel
of the serious marathon runner. By 17
miles, though, it was a different 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
Caste lla , Jones , Smith, Kamau and
Pitay o were all in contention .
At 17'1 1 miles , the Chicago course
took a left turn onto North Avenue, and
the runner s were suddenly upon an aid
station. In the confusion over cup s and
bo ttles and turns , Gabriel Ka ma u
tripped 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 courteous runner in the sport. 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
clearly 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 just 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 the 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 running 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
other 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 a nother 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 icials, und er the g uidance of
exec utive director Bob Bright and the
support ofthe Beatrice Corpo ration, had
assembled a field that other directors
could only moan, whimper and dream
abo ut. Beatrice's total spo nso rs hip was
stated as $1.3 million, of wh ich $250,000
would go for prize money . A fail' amount
of th e rest went for gu arantees to entice
the top nam es in the spor t, which wa s
said to be $50,000 api ece for Lopes and de
Cas te lla. Beatrice would also bu y all the
adv ertisin g time for th e local and network
television coverage, essentially

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 reater visibility for Chicago,
thus strengthening 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 puton the best marath on
we can logis tically, adm inistr ati vely and
competitively. Three yea rs ago people
didn' t know we existed. Now, as fa r as
the ru nning world 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 Bright, ag low with the
poss ibilities his invited field was sugges
ting for race day, resist goading
Lebow. "The handwriting 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 spring."
Lebow, meanwhile, 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 balloons 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 consolation 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.
That 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 temperatures 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 just 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 realized the pace was fast, he
had not known how close he was to the
recor d until two kilometer s before 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 admitted afterwards.
" I had doubts the whole last six
miles."
Turning in mile a fte r mile at sub­
4:50 pace, it soon became clear 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 clearly in the strained 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 rlier
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 esting,
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
medalist 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
since 1977, wh en he was
103rd in the World Cross-Country
Cha mpions hips. He's run eve ry world
cross-country meet since , finishing
thi rd thi s year in a race won by Car los
Lopes. His best track times are 13:18.6
for 5,000 met ers (1982) and 27:39.14
for th e 10,000 (1983). His record in major
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 still feel I hav e a lot left a t
10,000 meters and can run much faster
th an my best 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 als
ra ce and ra n 8:32.0 that summe r, but it
was a foolish mistake, mad e simply because
I didn't feel I had enoug h background
to make th e team at 10,000 mete
rs t hro ug h inj u ry the previous
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 after th e
Olympics, and ran 28:13, ranking me
second in Britain behind Nick for 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 n­
t 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 till fee l th at way?
JO~ES: Yes, I still t hink 'tha t it's easy if
L-you a rc mentally and physically pr e­
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 six-wee k
road racing 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 this
Iyear.
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 at th e
Olympi cs. I upp ed my training mileage
from its normal summer level of 75
miles a week to H5, which at7,000 feet is
quite hard, dropped my shorter intervals
and 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 keptit up I
could run under 2:09. But I was in no
man 's land th en , and anything could
still 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. I
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 station'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 tte 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 strip
down a nd rebuild planes, which can be
vei·y intricate or very hard manual
work at tim es. I use my own time for
training, at 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 pect is that at present I still
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 implications 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 larg ely lost in the ex citement
over Jones's record. Mota, a fte r
running with In g rid K r istian sen
through swift early sp lits of 33:52 (lOK )
and 51:14 (l5K) , slowed slig htly after
the halfway mark, bu t still 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 faste r than
planned, thought, "This is my fourth
marathon a nd I've never had a bad ex perience.
Mayb e today will be my first," In ­
stead, she caught all of t he women except
Mota a nd turned in a persona l best
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 memorable.
After th e record had been se t, a
quartet of dig nitaries that includ ed
Bright, Chicag o Mayor Harold Washington
and representati ves of Beatrice , congratulated
eac h other 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 rlier, 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
significant th a t Ameri ca 's Ma rathon has
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)
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:~
2:35:43
2:36:04
grown internationall y but th e impact
reall y ha sn 't been seen in Chicago."
Indeed, civic and media interest 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 reason afterwards
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 anothe r
record, thi s one for understatem 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 tition between Chicago
and Ne w York, or Boston for th a t matter,"
said th e man who had seemingly
grabbed th e upper hand a mong th e marathon
crowd for th e mome nt. "It's not
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 state ment of the
man of th e hour, wh o had jus t run the
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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
r un anot her marathon until nex t year's
Chicago race, an intention t hat could likely
fa ll in th e wake of appearance fee offers
fr om othe r races that s hould easily
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~
Comparing the Records
In this chart, cumulative tim es a nd mile
splits are given for both J ones a nd
Salaza r.
Jones
Salazar
Mile 1: 4:56 4:56 4:55 4:55
Mile 2: 9:57 5:01 10:00 5:05
Mile 3: 14:47 4:50 14:43 4:43
Mile 4: 19:35 4:48 19:32 4:49
Mile 5: 24:25 4:50 24:26 4:54
Mile 6: 29:15 4:50 29:18 4:52
Mile 7: 34:05 4:50 34:15 4:57
Mile 8: 38:47 4:42 39:16 5:01
Mile 9: 43:40 4:53 44:16 5:00
Mile 10: 48:47 5:07 49:06 4:50
Mile 11: 53:5? 5:05 53:58 4:52
Mile 12: 58:54 5:02 58:47 4:49
Mile 13: 1:03:48 4:54 1:03:41 4:54
Halfway: 1:04:20 1:04:10
Mile 14: 1:08:41 4:53 1:08:23 ·1:42
Mile 15: 1:13:51 5:10 1:13:25 5:02
Mile 16: 1:18:43 4:52 1:18:19 4:54
Mile 17: 1:23:37 4:54 1:22:52 4:33
Mile 18: 1:28:34 5:02 1:27:38 4:46
Mile 19: 1:33:40 5:01 1:32:27 4:49
Mile 20: 1:38:27 4:47 1:37:29 5:02
Mile 21: 1:43:09 4:42 1:42:15 4:46
Mile 22: 1:47:55 4:46 1:47:10 4:55
En
Mile 23: 1:52:38 4:43 1:52:14 5:04
Oft
Mile 24: 1:57:24 4:47 1:57:18 5:04
arx
Mile 25: 2:02:16 4:52 2:02:10 4:52
to :
Mile 26: 2:07:06 4:50 2:07:08 4:58
NE
Final: 2:08:05 2:08:13 N
30 THf: RUNNER: JANUARY 1985 Art: