Michigan Runner

1. 8K is about 51 yards short of 5 miles.
2. There are 42,195 meters in a marathon.
3. 40 kilometers, or 25 miles.
4. Montreal.
5. Four: Jim Ryun, Chris Danielson, Marty
Liquori and Alan Webb.
6. 1971.
7. Deena Kastor and Meb Keflezghi.
8. Michigan State University.
9. Jimmy Carter.
10. Tokyo.
Running Shorts Trivia Answers
11. Dr. George Sheehan, who celebrated the
champion in each of us, died in 1993.
12. John L. Parker Jr.
13. Don Kardong.
14. University of Michigan.
15. Yes, Andres Espinosa of Mexico has run
2:08:56.
16. Brian Maxwell.
17. 1972.
18. Nine times.
19. Cathy O’Brien ran 51:49.
20. Jerome Drayton ran 2:12:00 in the Motor
City Marathon on Belle Isle in 1969.
21. “The Four Minute Mile.”
22. Doug Kurtis and Karen Blackford.
23. 15 miles.
24. 5,280 feet, or 1,609.344 meters.
25. Don Bowden ran 3:58.7 in 1957.
He was the 12th man to break 4:00.
26. Brian Diemer.
27. Doug Brown.
28. Seven times.
29. Canadian Ed Whitlock, 74, ran
2:58:40 and Bernardine Portenski, 56,
of New Zealand ran 2:59:23, both in
2005.
30. Herb Lindsay.
31. Lisa Weidenbach (now
Rainsberger) in 1985.
32. Brian Grosso in 1988, Abdul
Alzindani in 1995, Dathan Ritzenhein
in 1999 and 2000, Tim Moore in 2001.
33. Three. Charlevoix and Dexter boys
teams, and Rockford girls.
34. New York City Marathon.
35. Reebok, dating back to 1895.
36. da Lima was tackled by a
defrocked Irish priest and recovered to
finish third.
37. Giorgio Calcaterra ran 16 sub-
2:20s in 2000 with the last 10 coming
in only 13 weeks!
28 Michigan Runner - March / April 2009 - Annual Event Calendar
38. Frank Shorter owned Frank Shorter
Sports in East Lansing from 1977-84.
39. The East Lansing State Bank 10K in
1982. Winners were Steve Lacy and Dan
Heikkinen (tie) and Kelly Spatz.
40. Milt Wilcox owned Runners Unlimited.
41. Upper Peninsula Road Runners Club.
42. The Tailwind came out in December
1979.
43. Chip time means you’re awarded your
time from when you actually cross the start
line until you reach the finish.
44. U.R. distances were 10K, 400 meters,
100 meters, one mile and marathon.
45. Twice: in 1993 and 2001.
46. The Portage Invitational hosted more
than 6,000 runners in October 2008.
47. National Masters News.
48. The New Balance 990 in 1981.
49. Ethiopian great Haile Gebrsellasie ran
2:03:59 in 2008.
50. Distance Running News.
How’d You Do?
1-10 right: Yikes, not so good but don’t fret,
knowing useless running trivia is overrated.
11-20 right: Knowing useless running trivia
may be overrated, but your total deserves at
least polite applause.
21-30 right: You’ve moved beyond polite
applause to a standing ovation.
31-40 right: Not only are they standing and
clapping, they’re chanting your name and
doing “The Wave.”
41-50 right: You’re good, very good, but
earned praise is of dubious merit because
knowing so much useless running trivia can’t
be a good thing. A dark cloud in a silver lining.
My thanks for help with answers to Ken
Young, Gary Wolfram, Don Richmond,
David Howell, Bill Mueller and Karen
Blackford MR.