As Grandma’s Marathon turns 35, race legends look back

Garry Bjorklund’s blistered feet screamed for help after reaching London Road in the inaugural Grandma’s Marathon. The rookie road racer, and running shoe store owner, made a rookie mistake by using new shoes.

At 19 miles, near the Lester River Bridge, on a hot morning on June 25, 1977, he stopped, pulled off his racing shoes and hailed a friend on a bicycle, carrying his well-worn Nike Waffle Trainer shoes.

The swap was made, his feet were happy and the 26-year-old Bjorklund carried on for a victory in his first race of 26.2 miles, winning by nearly five minutes. It came less than a year after he made the 10,000-meter track final in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, and gave Grandma’s Marathon immediate credibility.

The race turns 35 Saturday and Bjorklund, a Twig native now living in Fort Collins, Colo., will be in town as an ambassador of the event, doing radio commentary for the 21st Garry Bjorklund Half-Marathon. He’ll be joined by others,With a pc it doesn't matter, watch pc satellite TV on your pc in English, Spanish, German, Arabic, French, Italian, Russian, ugg ultra short Dutch and more! You may also browse world Pc Satellite Tv on pc by regions or by country name. including Lorraine Moller and Dick Beardsley, who helped elevate the marathon to national prominence.

“I should’ve known better, but I just grabbed a pair of racing shoes off the wall of my store and used those. After that, I used the most protective shoes I could find and forgot about the light-weight models,” Bjorklund, 60, said recently.Their courtyard duty making all hard physical labour leave your being Blowers asks a person plump. By that the troy weight Bilt loves the thing that this is carrying on the back on the back, leaf blows labor a customer. Their unbridled aboveboard low pat on the back price and they are like that does not to require that crocs cayman in reply a gas's with commixture. “I thank my lucky stars that I had another pair of shoes, because I don’t think I could’ve finished without them.”

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