Easy run through Millcreek and Holladay with Nate, JP, Collin and Jason. There was a big debate on how deep the fields were in the 80's, particularly Boston in 1983.
The 1983 Boston Marathon produced the fastest, deepest men’s results an American marathon has ever seen–this in a marathon 30 years before the current “second running boom.” In 1983, 84 mostly North American runners broke 2:20, and 263 bettered 2:28:30.
By comparison, in the super-fast 2011 Boston, where Geoffrey Mutai and Moses Mosop ran 2:03:02 and 2:03:06, respectively, only 22 runners broke 2:20 (and half were East Africans), and 68 runners beat 2:28:30.
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