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| Meeting a Pioneer - Part 2 |
| Tuesday, April 29, 2008 |
After getting home and discovering who Sarah Mae Berman was I really wanted to contact her to thank her for asking me about my marathon and also to tell her what an honor it was to meet her. I took a shot by sending off an email to the business she and her husband run and to my delight I got a wonderful email response. One of the first things she did was correct my reporting of her time when she almost broke 3 hours back in 1971. Her official time was 3:00:35. Another pioneer of our sport, Ted Corbitt was also in the race, setting one of his many age group records.
Sarah Mae filled me in on some of her other marathons. She was third in 1971 in the NYC Marathon on the old loop course in Central Park in a time of 3:08. Besides the three times she won Boston in '69, '70 and '71, she also ran it in '72, '73, '77, '78 and '79. What an amazing woman. |
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