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Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth
Postcards from Falmouth Zoom Program Transcript
Recorded: August 10, 2021
Presenter: Paul Clerici
Host: Jill Erickson
Topic: A History of the Falmouth Road Race: Running Cape Cod, by Paul Clerici
Available from Falmouth Public Library and other CLAMS libraries under 796.42 CLE
Also mentioned (all by Paul Clerici):
o Born to Coach: The Story of Bill Squires, available from Falmouth Public Library
under 927.9642 Squires
o Images of Modern America: The Boston Marathon
o Boston Marathon History by the Mile, available online via CLAMS
Note: The right column references postcards by identifiers searchable in the Digital
Commonwealth online collection.
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good morning I’m Jill Erickson I’m Head
of Reference and Adult Services at the
Falmouth Public Library and we're
delighted this morning to have
Paul Clerici come and visit us via Zoom
we are recording this presentation and
it will be available on the Falmouth
public library YouTube station as well
as FCTV we'll be broadcasting it
and you probably those of you that are
already here know we will be muting and
hiding you um during the presentation uh
Paul is actually joining us via his
telephone so but he does have a slide
presentation that accompanies this
presentation
this particular talk is part of a series
we've been doing it was a grant that we
got called Postcards from Falmouth which
is a Falmouth Public Library local
history project made possible by a
Library Services Technology Act grant
and administered by the Massachusetts
Board of Library Commissioners
and we are really delighted at all the
programming that we've had but we're
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particularly excited that Paul is here
today because as many of you know
this coming Sunday is in fact the
Falmouth Road Race
Paul's book is called A History of the
Falmouth Road Race: Running Cape Cod
and he is the best-selling author and
award-winning former newspaper editor
and sports editor who has written the
authorized biography Born to Coach: The
Story of Bill Squires, Images of Modern
America: The Boston Marathon, A History of
the Falmouth Road Race which he will be
discussing today
and Boston Marathon History by the Mile
um and I see that he also was has run
the Falmouth uh Road Race which is also
delightful um so I will now turn it over
to Paul
oh thank you very much I really
appreciate that um yeah I’ll take you
through the course the history uh the
great race that's coming up on Sunday
um actually the first photo is a nice uh
aerial shot from NASA of Cape Cod
um the reason I put this in and circled
Where the course is is actually people have
asked me where the town of Cape Cod is
um if you live from out of state so I
thought I’d include that
uh at the beginning for anyone here
who's from out of state and if you're
not from out of state it's a fun photo
anyway maybe you can see your house but
it's a great photo um the next photo uh
is of um
Tommy Leonard at the Eliot Lounge
he's actually talking to [unintelligible] a
local uh race director some of you may
know um Tommy Leonard who passed away in
2019 um
thought of this race all it's all
from him uh
it's an amazing man who really loved
running loved the Boston Marathon loved
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#falmouthroadrace
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the town of Falmouth loved people
most of you probably know of him if you
haven't met him before
um in 1972 when the summer Olympic Games
were on he was working at the Brothers
Four
uh which used to be a place up in the
Falmouth Heights which is no longer
there um and he was watching the Olympic
Games again he loves uh running and
everything and Frank Shorter an American
was leading the race he was all excited
he was a bartender up there and he
stopped serving beer because he was sort
of commenting about the race to
everybody
um and Frank Shorter won so on that is
on television everyone saw it it was
one of the excellent excellent races
really piqued people's interest in
running and Tommy said aw it would be great
to get Frank Shorter to run in Falmouth
and everyone laughed
and Tommy always said you know when
everyone didn't believe me or scoffed at
my ideas that made me even more
determined so he kept that in his mind
this is the 1972 Olympic Games
um and within about I would say the
confluence of happenstance
helped create this race
between about 1970 and 72
um
Tommy Leonard separately Tommy Leonard
um John and Lucia Carroll Rich and Kathy
Sherman found themselves in the Cape
they didn't know each other other than
the couples who knew each other
obviously um
within that time period early 70s no
running boom yet there were road races
and things
um but
Tommy when he was in when he worked at
the Eliot Lounge in Boston he did a
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lot of things with Eddie Doyle from the
Bull & Finch which became the um
Cheers if you know the TV show and
they would have little road races
between the two bars to raise money for
things so he always had that in his mind
as things to do
um so back at the Cape around here John
Carroll uh cross country coach
created the Falmouth Track Club to help
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some of the high school girls compete
after the regular season uh because back
then uh once the season ended that was
it but there was also post-season
tournaments and things
but not for girls they were for women
uh age group so
um he created Falmouth Track Club so some of
his high school girls could actually
compete but they needed funding they
needed some money
um so Tommy found out about this and he
said maybe we can create a little road
race to raise some money to help the
girls out and Rich Sherman worked at
the recreation department uh in Falmouth
so between all of them they they said
hey let's just do a nice little race
here um so for the next photo that
you'll see is the actual t-shirt uh of
the first year uh 1973.
so on August 15 1973 which was a
Wednesday
an odd day for a road race but it was
Tommy Leonard’s 40th birthday
um so
uh
they thought let's do this race we'll go
from uh the Captain Kidd in Woods Hole
#falmouthtrackclub
#falmouthrunningclub
#1973
#captainkidd #woodshole
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and we’ll run along the shore and we'll
end um at the Brothers Four at
Terrace Gables, which became
the Brothers Four before being
redeveloped into condominiums:
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Falmouth Heights it's like a seven-ish
mile route that Tommy would run on his
own anyway because he's running the
Boston Marathon and you know he didn't
really figure out the distance yet but
he figured let's go from bar to bar
that's what we do in Boston
so uh later on they measured it it was
actually uh John Carroll told me from
door to door
6.999 miles
and over the years it did
vary depending on whose car was used to
measure it did go from
6.99 to 7 and a half
so for your running logs back then
it wasn't certified until 2003 so for
all those other races it did range and
before Garmin that you couldn’t really
figure it out so it was seven-ish for a
while um the seven mile mark was
actually painted in Falmouth Heights you could
actually see the number seven for many
years so they thought this was a great
idea you know let's get a bunch of
locals um
98 officially uh paid
as Tommy would say 92 uh actually
finished officially
and everyone uh could basically fit in
the Captain Kidd um
you know 98 runners everyone was in
there as a rainy day uh on a Wednesday
but the t-shirt that Tommy created that
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you see
does say Falmouth Marathon uh which is
interesting because back then um
if you said road race that actually
referred to automobiles or motorcycle
races
you wouldn't think of running and
marathon everyone loves marathons if
you're a running fan of the Olympics and
everything uh which of course Tommy was so
they put Falmouth Marathon so people
wouldn't think it was a uh a bicycle
race or automobile
um and they started like I said in Woods
Hole which is the next photo the nice
aerial photo from the Historical Society
Falmouth Historical Society which helped
with some of these photos which is great
um right on Water Street in front of
Captain Kidd
again those 98 official runners official
Entrants and 92
finished
which is kind of interesting now that we
have uh around 13,000 on the regular
year
which is kind of neat but it was great
most people lived around here the
Falmouth Cape Cod
people showed up which was nice
they knew where the money was going uh
A bar to bar
race uh
was good people like that um actually
having it finished there I remember they
were telling me that basically
there was no course map
you know no um starting line tape
no cones no police telling you which
turn to do and everything because
everyone's basically local so they
basically say just follow the person in
front of you hopefully no one was from
out of state too much that got got lost
or anything
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the next photo shows a more modern start
line
but that's basically the start line on
Water Street right next to the Captain
Kidd
of a more recent photo but it gives you
an idea of what the start looks like
um
but it's really a small street so they
have uh but back then with only under
100 runners it wasn't you know basically
just said ready set go and everybody
went um but now they have it in waves
and pulses because of so many people um
they send out uh you know a couple
thousand I think it’s about a thousand at a time
time then they wait two minutes next
thousand like corrals to kind of space
it out a little bit
um actually the next photo shows you
um what the weather conditions were and
who the leader was David Duba
excuse me nice black and white photo
from Historical Society that's Dave
Duba from Michigan
who was just on his way to Cape a friend
of his I had a relative who worked lived
near Woods Hole he was a cross-country
runner and he goes okay I’ll run this
and but you can see the weather
conditions it was rainy uh as I said on
uh Wednesday afternoon which is again
sort of a hard time but Tommy liked
doing things like that
um Jenny Tuthill won the female division
um it was a fun race basically just to
raise some money
Tommy Leonard passed around a little
cigar box um at the Brothers Four
afterwards to collect more money for the
girls so they could compete
um and it was a fun race it was uh it
was
again in the rain and once everybody's
finished they just the finish line at
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that time the first two years was at the
Brothers Four
which is for those of you who don't know
it's not there anymore it's at the
top of the hill
when you go down to the finish line of
the race
that's where the apartments and condos
there that's where the Brothers Four was
and the building was
located five ten feet from the curb it
was right there you'll see a photo
coming up soon um so you crossed the
finish line you basically took a left
you walked about ten feet and you're in
the bar which people liked um so the
word of mouth went about that and Johnny
Kelley Johnny the Elder Kelley um
who lived on the Cape uh
he also ran he was a big draw because
everyone loved him um like when he ran
the Boston Marathon he won it twice came
in second place seven times
for most people they always waited until
he finished the Boston Marathon uh
before they went home so he ran uh the
Falmouth Road Race and everyone loved it
uh he's in his 60s I think 65 at the
time of the first race I remember Brian
Salzberg was telling me he was one of
the
gentlemen who has run every Falmouth
Road Race uh there are four now Falmouth
four
and he I remember Brian telling me that
when he finished went into the Brothers
Four
um he looked down on the dance floor
there and he saw this older gentleman
with white hair and a Hawaiian shirt
dancing
just dancing and dancing on the uh on
the dance floor and Brian was really
tired he found out it was Johnny Kelley
He goes here's a guy double my age dancing
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right after running the seven miles I
can't even really walk around he goes aw the
guy’s in great shape which everyone knew
Johnny was um
so that was how the first year started
it was very small there were a few races
around especially down the Cape there
were some as well
but no running boom yet but people
started getting interested um like I
said with the 1980 1972 Olympics
everyone saw an American Frank Shorter
win the marathon so that piqued people's
interest
Title IX was passed in 1972 for equal
funding federal funding for boys and
girls sports so
girls started getting
more accessible for sports and running
and things like that little road races
started to come up
the Greater Boston Track Club which uh
started the same week as the Falmouth
Road Race separately though
in Boston had a lot of great
post-collegiate runners um they had a
big impact on Falmouth that you'll hear
about later so things started to looking
back at it and um
succession of events started to line up
at the time you don't know when things
happen when they happen so the following
year which is the next photo
um you'll see Marty Liquori um 1974.
Marty Liquori is one of our greatest
runners he was the third American high
school kid to run a sub-four-minute mile he's
Olympian
his brother Steve uh went to BC and
Tommy Leonard talked to him to get Marty to
run
um they changed the race to a Sunday
Tommy said if we're gonna do this again
let's do it on a Sunday
which they did
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and
people knew Marty Liquori I mean
everybody knew him you can see from the
photo from the Historical Society all
the crowd this is the finish line up
near the Brothers Four is right on the
right there you can sort of see the
finish line
the bottom right there but that's Marty
Liquori coming in second place you can
see the crowd this is just the second
year 1974.
and uh
the amount of people from 92 finishing
the first year jumped to about 400 in
1974.
by 1974 like like I was saying the
running boom is just starting but more
people are running more people are aware
of it
uh whether you're competing in the top
runners or you're just running to run
maybe your age group you started to get a
lot so here's Marty Liquori coming to
family um and Tommy Leonard had talked
to coach Bill Squires of the Greater
Boston Track Club if he could bring some
of his guys down
um who everyone started to really know
locally and that included Bill Rodgers
who would come in pretty well in the
Boston Marathon at that time he had not
won it yet if you know who Bill Rodgers
is which I assume most people tuning in
does
um so the race got a lot of attention
and I remember talking to Bill Rodgers
about this for the book
and he said I really wasn't afraid of I
respected Marty Liquori but he's a miler short
distance guy and he goes uh this is a
seven mile race I’m training for Boston
Marathon and things he goes I should win
because I’m not really afraid
of him competitive wise and he wasn't
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Bill won uh and Marty came in second
but it was an excellent race really
brought a lot of attention as you can
see from that uh Historical Society
photo uh of just all the people um
gathered there which was which was
excellent um just to see that attention
come into this town which was nice um
Debbie Richie was the first female and
it's just kind of funny the disparity
back then that uh when Bill Rodgers won
he got a nice big trophy when Debbie
Richie won she was a 15 year old she was
telling me she got a hair dresser and a
bouquet of roses
so it was kind of funny to see the
difference back then but still
recognized as a winner which was which
was neat
again this is finishing at the Brothers
Four the next photo you will actually see
what the Brothers Four look like
this photo Charlie Rodgers took uh Bill
Rodgers’ brother who took a lot of photos
uh
back then when his brother was running
that's what the Brothers Four looked
like so the finish line is just to the
right
on the road there the sidewalk separates
the building from the road it's that
close
so
I remember Dave Duba and those guys
saying it was great he just crossed the
finish line like I said turn left and
I’m in a bar
so the Brothers Four looked like that
was again about the top of the hill as
you're going down to the finish line
that last final portion Falmouth Heights
is what the Brothers Four
your locals
will remember that
um it was great they had great support
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the first couple years
first two years that's where it finished
but then more and more people started to
come
uh people would spill out into the field
the ball field back there where the Falmouth
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Commodores used to play
uh drinking and everything so it got a
little little um
extracurricular activity there so what
they did is they actually moved from the
following year uh from 1975 down to
where roughly where it is now just to
give it more room you can manage it more
so the first two years did finish right
at the Brothers Four
but things were changing that was uh the
interest uh the running boom was just
really starting a lot of people getting
into it um the next photo that you'll
see another Historical Society photo
back at Woods Hole you'll see Bob Hall
for the wheelchair start right there
this is significant um
in 1975
for that Boston Marathon Bob Hall um was
one of our ex
excellent wheelchair athletes
he went to school at Boston State
College where Coach Squires had taught and
coached and he asked Coach Squires I want
to do because he's an athlete he won the
mile
and the other a couple other national
wheelchair championships
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so Coach said all right let's do it
there's no other wheelchair out there
That’s ever done it this is 1974-75
when you thought about it so Coach
Squires trained him um it was difficult
obviously he had to adjust the training
because of the wheels and everything but
he trained uh Bob Hall
and uh Coach Squires got in contact and
Bob Hall as well with the BAA will call
the race director finally he said okay
if um we'll admit Bob Hall and if he
finishes under three hours he'll be
considered an official entrant official
finisher he'll get a certificate
so a lot was riding on this because
prior to this again no wheelchair
athletes ever and sure enough Bob Hall
finished in 2 hours and 58 minutes
became the official the first official
wheelchair
finisher he basically every wheelchair
category you see in races now basically
started from Bob Hall
uh he created um
this category he created wheelchairs he
helped coach everything like that really
started with Bob Hall
and then being a local from Belmont he
thought about the Falmouth Road Race and
called the race and sure come on over
so 1975 was the first year
uh for wheelchairs and Bob Hall
won the first eight Falmouth Road Races uh
and here's a nice great picture of him
from the Historical Society of him
coming out of Woods Hole and you'll see
the great crowds really starting to pick
up which was nice
because 1975
really
really brought this race to
the forefront of the running community
for those who hadn't followed it before
the next photo which is a nice color
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photo from Charlie Rodgers again
from 1976 but the runners inside you'll
see that I’ll show you who they are
really really catapult this race um if
you look at the photo from left to right
you'll see Tom Derderian in the beard
then there's Frank Shorter uh Amby
Burfoot with the beard Alberto Salazar
has a blue shirt toward the back second
Row so to speak
then Bob Hodge from Greater Boston Track
Club Vin Fleming from Greater Boston Randy
Thomas and then Bill Rodgers on the right
um in 1975 Tommy Leonard's wish finally
came true he got a hold of Bill Rodgers
who got a hold of Frank Shorter because
they knew each other
and Bill Rodgers had by that time won the
Boston Marathon in April everyone who
didn't know Bill Rodgers before us
locals did but he really threw himself
on the map and running everyone knew
Bill Rodgers now everyone knew the
Greater Boston Track Club because Bill
Rodgers was a member of the Greater Boston
Track Club along with Alberto Salazar
and
Greg Meyer and all the other great
American runners
and um
told Frank Shorter about the Falmouth Road
Race and at the time Frank would run in
Europe around that time the different
running circuits for an elite athlete
but Frank said you know I’d love to run
Falmouth to stay local because I get
paid an appearance fee when I go to
Europe
um not to maintain his amateur status
for
the Olympics right the race couldn't pay
Frank so Bill Crowley
um who owned the Captain Kidd and a
couple other places in in the Cape uh on
the Cape there uh paid him
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like an appearance fee
which absolved the Road Race of anything
I remember talking to
um Bill Crowley’s wife
about it uh years later for the book and
she said that they kept the cancelled
check so if the Olympic Committee or
the US [Olympic] Committee or anyone wanted
to
find out where the money came from
they had proof
the race did not pay him so Frank came
and uh he ended up winning and Bill
Rodgers goes you know Tommy Leonard never
thanked me for uh bringing Frank Shorter
He goes I lost
two Falmouth Road Races to Frank
um but having Frank Shorter um the gold
medalist and excellent runner on his own
outside of the Olympics come to Falmouth
in 1975. again this is the third year of
the race
they again started 92 finishers the first
year 400 the second year it jumped to
about I think 800 or so
for 1975.
just
again catapulted Falmouth and the race
and
everyone's knowledge of this area
especially with the Road Race so really
big interest at press conferences
um interviewing um Frank Shorter and
Bill Rodgers they moved the finish line
to the bottom of the hill a little bit
like I was mentioning um also there were
two little factors not many people know
that actually two races in 1975 run run
simultaneously the AAU the Amateur
Athletic Union required you
for their races to have AAU card to be
members and not everyone was a member
so what they did is they ran the race
the Falmouth Road Race but they also ran
at the same time for those of you who
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didn't have an AAU card
a fundraiser but it was within the same
time so that's how they got away with uh
for being able to run the race without
being an AAU member so it's kind of
interesting there's two sets of results
uh when you look it up but it's kind of
interesting uh and Joan Benoit Samuelson
won her first of six
Falmouth Road Races uh that year as well
so it was a big big year Tommy Leonard
always said that he really thanked uh
among many people Coach Squires for
bringing his horses as he said
uh down to the race which really brought
more great attention and you'll see the
next photo um another black and white
photo from the Historical Society
uh just the jam-packed amount of
spectators
down at Falmouth Heights is unbelievable
still is um although this year the ball
field will be closed off the spectators
but
um all those years you will see it
packed on the beach on the right
um the ball field on the left just
climbing up you'll see tons of people
everywhere on the roof of the casino
the interest just came in with
the bibs were still given out in a van
at the start
which changed quickly
but Falmouth even though it's hard to
grow and had to get all this great
attention and thousands of people knew
about it it still kept its uh it's um
small town feel which was nice uh
Lucia’s brother Sebastian um
who plays in an orchestra used his trumpet
to play the call you know called to the
post that you hear
horse races um at Woods Hole
for every start line that will come up
uh he would play that um I think the
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first year or two he's actually on the
fire fire stairs on one of the buildings
that was kind of moving as he would play
so he did the rest of them on the
sidewalk
a little moving around a little too much
for his uh his liking he said um but he
would do that which a lot of people
appreciate is kind of neat uh
newspapers re the newspapers they were
really starting to focus having sections
of the paper about the Road Race which
was neat uh which which they hadn't had
before um and actually 1979
first introduced 1980 it was capped so
it really started to grow
um with that interest which I thought
was which is excellent and the next
photo you actually see again from the
Historical Society back at Woods Hole
um they really started to have to focus
on getting some
semi-crowd control because people would
be milling about the first few years
um but again as it grew and grew and
grew into a couple of thousand runners
it was kind of difficult so again mostly
local but again after the Frank Shorter
and the Greater Boston guys until Rodgers
started to come everyone
from outside of the Cape really started to
focus in on this race and you'll see a
banner there from Perrier interesting
story
around that time Perrier was thinking of
sponsoring road races
and thinking about doing the New York City
marathon uh one year and Fred Lebow the
race director that came to Falmouth
to run with some of his uh people and uh
was talking to Tommy Leonard about you
should talk to Perrier so
Tommy did he put on as you said his best
suit which had pizza
stains on it and his tie was crooked and
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he went down to New York where the
New England division was and talked to
the president there
and he said you know like 90 degrees out
I’m sweating and my forehead's all red
I’m jumping around the conference room
and my arms are flailing and I’m telling
them about the beauty of Falmouth and
the Road Race and you should really
sponsor this and he goes about halfway
through they stopped and said you got us
because your enthusiasm alone
we'll do it we'll sponsor you and
you'll be our first road race this is
1977
even before New York City Marathon which
is a few months later so Falmouth was the
first race
road race that Perrier
uh sponsored and um they've done a lot
throughout the year the road races but
Falmouth was the first one so they gave
a check by the spot that's a couple of
phone calls to Falmouth to uh
Tommy he's in New York with the check
he's like this is great we have it so
you got the banner and it just helped
other things too um but he really
started to show other people know about
this race
which was great so in 1977 that's where
you see uh Perrier sign
started in 77 that was a banner that you
see
for several years they just changed the
year
but you'll see greater interest in the
next photo of color photo from Charlie
Rodgers is back to the finish line in the
background you'll see the Brothers Four
another marquee event was in 1978 a year
after
Tommy got that funding which was great
of uh the 1978 race had
in its field had 9 Olympians 13 sub 4
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minute milers 16 national champions
um
the interest was huge it was a hot and
muggy day which it usually is for the Falmouth
Road Race either hot muggy or rainy
as everyone knows
um
that hasn't changed much
so uh you had a great big huge field
with this race and you had so much going
on
competitive wise and back to the Greater
Boston Track Club
Bill Rodgers was a member Alberto
Salazar as I was saying Dan Dillon
Bob Hodge Randy Thomas great great
runners
in this area that other people started
to know about when they went to other
races
um and interestingly uh Salazar was a
young maybe 21 22 at the time and he
looked up to his fellow Greater Boston
guys
and
[unintelligible] at the starting line uh Coach
Squires who coached them all uh but they
always said you’re friends until
the gun starts
then you want to beat that person and
then once the race is over you have a beer with
them
with them which is true for any athlete
um so Salazar was sort of looking at
Rodgers and uh
these other guys and seeing what
they're doing maybe emulating them
And Salazar was an excellent runner too back
then
um
really starting out um back in 78. so
Coach Squires sort of noticed this so he
told Rodgers once you drink your water
stretch out behind the building here you
know stay in the shade and Bill Rodgers didn't
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know people were looking at him uh
fellow athletes so Bill Rodgers hydrated
got ready
um Salazar couldn't find him just fine
they all did the routine the gun goes
off everyone's running uh Bill Rodgers
skips the first water stop because he's
all hydrated so Salazar go thinking to
himself well he didn't have water I
won't have water not knowing that Bill
Rodgers is fully hydrated um it was that
kind of way cat mouse throughout
Rodgers was very close in the second pack
very hot and humid really bad day and
Salazar and Rodgers really pushing each
other because they were really really
good runners I remember interviewing
Salazar for the book he was telling me
around four and a half four four and a
half mile mark he started to catch up
or wanted to catch up to Rodgers right
off his shoulder and he just couldn't he
couldn't get extra gear he was confused
as to why he mean you're confused
because well I didn't know why I should
be able to I’m training with them I knew
and you kind of know who you can stay
with for a while because you trained
with them because I’m looking back now
and I’m getting heat stroke because
oxygen's not going to my brain but I
didn't know at the time I was just
confused why I couldn't catch up with
them
and it went like that for a mile or two
and to the point that he to this day
can't remember the last
couple two three miles of the race still
can't remember
and what happened was as you can see in
this color photo
this is at the finish line of 1978. Bob
Hodge is uh closest runner right behind
him is Greg Meyer behind him is Alberto
Salazar and Randy Thomas is behind him
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Salazar was probably around fifth or
sixth at the top of the hill where the
Brothers Four is and he was so
dehydrated so in trouble
uh because of the heat that several
people passed him he came in tenth place
and he just collapsed at the finish line
his body temperature was 108 degrees and
the medical staff
obviously recognized the danger of this
the fatal danger of this actually and
threw him in the little kiddie pool of
ice which Falmouth had
which
interestingly
the year before in a medical journal
they had a story um about
having ice baths for athletes to
overheat
to bring their body temperature down how
much of a great safety measure and the
medical staff at
Falmouth was ahead of a lot of other road
races had it
August race in Falmouth near the beach
so they were really cognizant of of this
kind of danger with runners and with 108
degree temperature
all sorts of stuff can go wrong and did
with Salazar he was combative which is a
sign of heatstroke uh they put him in
the ice to bring his temperature down
his father José was really worried to
you know get him to the hospital now
and Dr. Crago was like no we can't we
gotta get his body temperature down now
he'll never make it to the hospital if
we leave right now at 108 degrees
uh they gave him his last rites
actually because it was not looking good
at all um they finally got his body
temperature down brought him to the
hospital he got several IVs of fluid
he did eventually come back for the
award ceremony which was several hours
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later and he kept the gauze back um
gauze pad on his arm it was kind of like
a batch of honor as he's getting the
tenth place trophy kind of like letting
the people know hey this didn't get me
um next year I’ll come back and I’ll end
up winning had a great stretch of
excellent races um but it was it was a
marquee race because of just the way
these guys ran I remember talking to
Bill Rodgers about it and he says we ran
like that we would run you to the ground
that was just how we were
competitive wise because it was very
primitive and dicey that's just how we
ran um
and
Salazar didn't take any offense by it he
goes no that's how that's how you do it
uh also Craig Virgin was there an eventual
winner one of my great American uh
Olympians and he remembers he was struck
by Bill Rodgers he remembers after
finishing that race that Bill won
uh Craig saw Bill Rodgers sitting in a
chair at the ball field with a line of
about
a couple hundred fans
where you get their autograph and Bill
sits there for a couple hours and just
talks everyone gets autographs like he
does now and Craig looks and goes I’m
gonna model myself after him that's how
an athlete should be
so the interest was just going
I’d say worldwide at this point and the
next photo from the Historical Society
you'll see um a makeshift media press
truck
that sort of had to accommodate
the press more people wanted to know
about this race this little town in Cape
Cod
um because everyone wanted us to run all
the great runners you want to run
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against the best they start seeing this
race as being one of them despite the odd
seven plus mile distance
they wanted to come here so this press
truck was sort of hastily built every
year Tony Rivers who always covered this
race still does remarks one year that
they were on this press truck and it
would go slow around the corner and
sometimes the leaders would have to sort
of put their arm out to not get hit by
the truck uh he remembers one year that
he heard a big clunk
and he looks out from behind the truck
and sees one of the wheels pop off and
roll into someone's front yard
it still works he goes well there's
enough there's a bunch of other wheels
so we can deal with it
um the next photo color photos from Gus
Canty you see the Expo
Expo started to pop up the first couple
years some people sold stuff at the
sidewalk it was whole again with this
increased interest from the media from
other runners from just people who want
to watch it they had to have an expo
which was nice with different vendors
this is the old Gus Canty now it's at
the high school
um the next photo that you'll see um is
a real good sign of how this race
enjoys and celebrates its history by
bringing back former winners uh which is
real nice not a lot of races do that but
they do which I thought was great uh and
here's the table with at the top there's
Frank Shorter next is Bill Rodgers
then Meb Keflezighi and Joan Benoit
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Samuelson signing autographs and they
still do they still bring back former
champions they have
celebratory years anniversary years uh
the Falmouth Road Race does so it's
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really nice to see how they do celebrate
that
um the next photo that you see is
familiar to a lot of people in the
summer uh the Bourne Bridge with traffic
uh in addition to the increase of
interest as I mentioned is the traffic
so this is weekend traffic that a lot of
people see at the Bourne Bridge uh I
remember Tommy Leonard saying that um
he promised people because the second
year of the race if we don't get
at least 200 people in the second year
He might as well jump off the Bourne Bridge
and lucky for him they got more than 200
so he didn't have to jump
I said can you swim he goes well I don't
think it'll matter
if I had to jump
um but that's the traffic that you'll see
the next photo is
from the viewpoint of a runner at the
start so you really get a sense of what
the start had become with all this
interest
from curb to curb just people this is
before this photo was taken before the
uh pulse start which which uh
has waves so you just crammed everyone
in
um you got to know your neighbor
everyone knew each other um but it was
really it was really neat because like I
said in 19 in 1973 was 92 finishers
went to 400 the next year 870 1975
1600 1977 by 1980 they had to cap it at
4 000.
and this is just several years after the
start of the race so
um
Falmouth like most races that started
back in the 70s with the running boom in
the first you know
first
half of the 70s
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you were just reacting you really think
that you didn't have a chance to be
proactive and
assume or guess
hundreds and thousands of people
hundreds or thousands of people that
show up you just did what you did when
people showed up
so in 1980 uh Falmouth capped it at 4
thousand to kind of take a breath and go all
right we have to start looking back
what happened they had meetings after
every year to see how they can improve
but they look back all right let's take
control of this thing
because the running boom basically
exploded and Jim Fixx the author did uh
his books uh
and people just
really wanted to run
they wanted to compete on the athletic
on the elite level they wanted to
compete on age group level or they just
wanted to run so all these different
factions of runners wanted to go to the
best races and Falmouth was one of them so
everyone started to show up so other
things had to be you know
like I said with the press truck and the
Expo to accommodate people the number
pickup no longer giving out numbers in
the back of the car
at Woods Hole if you needed that day of
the race uh and you see the next photo
uh approaching Nobska Point Lighthouse um
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all the people
it's just it was jammed with people
which was great um Falmouth was becoming
Falmouth synonymous with the race and
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people started to really enjoy the Cape
and the town and the community remember
Matt Auger was saying the assistant race
director
you can have the
greatest race the greatest course the
greatest
um
appearance of runners but the community
is not behind you you have nothing and
that's true
Falmouth had their ups and downs they
had their adjustments like every race
every city and town had when they
started a race but the community has
been behind it
and there's been changes along the way
obviously like with anything with any
growth you know from I could say from 92
finishers the first year to almost 13
000
in more recent years which is basically
what they've been averaging uh this year
notwithstanding
and you have to adjust and you have to
accommodate um
one thing Falmouth does which I don't
see in some areas in some states and
things
is you have a global international race
but you still have that small hometown
feel
um they still pay attention to the
Olympians and the elite athletes as well
as the amateur athletes and those in the
back of the field and it's nice to see
that you don't see that a lot of races I
mean you have something you know that
they're worried about people
getting here safely um flying in from
different countries and
getting host families for the lead
athletes and the press conferences and
things like that um then their
requirements that they want to do at the
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Expos for their companies and stuff that
they have to schedule
and also the amateur athletes who if
they want to put their clothes in a
little bicycle locker I mean a little
locker at the starting line that will be
moved to the finish line for them
they'll be able to get they want to ride
their bikes to Falmouth Heights it'll be
in a secure area and they get a bus to
the starting line little things like
that
for the amateur runners um
they still hold on to they still do
which I think is great um so that's nice
to see with family that again you don't
always see uh the next photo that you
will see Nobska Light Nobska Point Light
which is the first mile mark it’s just
very iconic and people just love that
um
even though it's wide open if it's a hot
day you're gonna toast but that's fine
going past that lighthouse
uh the next photo was interesting John
Carroll
took this photo of Surf Drive um this is
from 1991 the locals remember Hurricane
Bob that actually um occurred
right after the Falmouth Road Race the
same day
if it occurred several hours earlier
probably wouldn't have had a race John
Carroll was telling me
it had such a force when it came across
Block Island Rhode Island and Falmouth
that actually moved the course that
you'll see the ripples right here it
actually physically moved the road to
the point that the engineers it almost
took about a year to re-fix it the race
directors were telling me the Carrolls
and Shermans were telling me they got
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close they may have had to reroute
reroute the road race part of the course
around Surf Drive fortunately
after about a year after within that
year they were able to fix it
but it actually moved houses it was a
really real bad fatal hurricane if you
remember from back then
um
it was it came ashore so close to the
race that
the race would finished and they were
cleaning up that the uh the Carrolls and
Sherman
basically told for all you out of town
volunteers go home now this was later in
the day on that Sunday and they
basically the remaining things that they
were going to pack away
at the finish and they just put a big
pile wrapped it up and went home because
the storm was coming it was that close
that they just they just missed coming
with the race
um that's an interesting little side
note there
the next photo that you'll see
is that last final stretch of the race
uh the casino there on the left um
it's an interesting little
stretch down there it's only you know
several hundred
meters several hundred yards down there
but it's interesting that um
there's a crosswalk on the top there
that you'll
kind of see there
and um it's interestingly that in 1988
that sort of confused a couple runners
um
and
Anne Hannam was winning and Betty Jo
Geiger was the second really approaching
her and just said about that crossword
crosswalk there Betty Jo stood up and
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passed Anne and sort of slowed down
and then Anne sort of recognized that I
better pick it up if she's going to
continue and continue down the hill
faster if Betty Jo had stopped she
thought that was the finish line
which everyone's like no no keep going
keep going and so Betty Jo picked it up
again but she ended up coming in second
but people
had some out of state those are
different countries confused at one
point that little crosswalk so you gotta
pay attention actually
um in 2003 Jen Rhines one of the great
American runners
um when she was running uh Olga Romanova
and Catherine Ndereba the three of them
were basically top three
um running for most of the race and
Catherine Ndereba I think about four or
five mile mark stepped off she was
injured so it was Jen Rhines and Olga and
Olga was in the lead ahead enough that
Jen couldn't see her
and then around this hill around this
area here
that you see the runners coming down
everyone started to cheer Jen and they
put finish line tape for her to break
but Jen's going oh that's really nice as
the first American to break the tape
like they do with Johnny Kelley to Boston
marathon whenever he finishes the
tape across the finish line for him to
break
so she broke the finish line everyone's
cheering telling her she won she goes
yeah thank you I’m the first American I
said no no you won the race you know
Olga was ahead of me
and they said no Jen turn around look up
the top of the hill near the crosswalk
that that's where Olga was the heat and
the race just so
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drained old that she stopped
at the top of the hill
and Jen managed the race so well in the
heat she ended up winning which is a big
aspect of this race is managing that
heat you can be the greatest athlete uh
like Bill Rodgers said the marathon will
humble you well so will this weather
you've had great Olympians not winning
because you've got to manage this heat
in in addition to the course and it's
being seven miles um the heat is tough
it's part of it it's an element of a race
when you compete so it's an interesting
little patch there and the Casino by the
Sea there um on the left uh
captain the Bill Sweeney used that
casino um you would always see people on
the roof and out the window cheering you
on which is kind of neat when you're
running from the top of the hill you can
sort of see the peak of the building
before the finish line
nice little burst of cheering uh which
is nice so it's another one of those
neat um aspects of the race of the
runner especially that you see like
little landmarks along the way like the
lighthouse and everything just sort of
keeps you going um another great uh
point of the race the next photo that
you see uh is the great American flag
um that's draped over the finish line um
in 1987
um
a veteran from Falmouth Jim Gehris
read about the Mount Rushmore American
flag going on tour in the country it's
the huge American flag it's 4 000 square
feet 300 pound flag
over Mount Rushmore
and for I think it's for its anniversary
which tour the country the flag was a
big huge flatbed truck and if you had an
event that you would like to have this
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flag on display you let them know so Jim
did in 1987 the
Rushmore flag was the first one that
was unfurled and was draped over atop
the finish line that you see
and they did that for a couple years the
flag now isn't the Mount Rushmore one
but Falmouth continued that tradition
which is which is tremendous it's a
beautiful
uh element of this race that people look
forward to and it's just it's amazing to
see them unfurl with all the volunteers
holding holding it because of its weight
like I say it's 4 000 pounds so it
doesn't touch the ground they they lift
it up it's amazing to see
um but it started uh with Jim Gehris in
1987 really neat
um but you started to see um you used to
have an old chute system where you
finish
in that area there the next photo that
you'll see
from a ground over ground level of the
finish line you had uh the old chute
system
with popsicle sticks from those of you
who would run races when you crossed the
finish line they gave you a popsicle
stick with the number on it that was
your finish and you gave it back towards
the end of the
chute where the official was to record
your time they had
Tape recorders when there's so many
runners coming the same time the
volunteers would just say the numbers in
order with the tape recorder
your your time was on top of the old BBC
building the restaurant down there on
the left
on the roof
yes
you had uh big numbers being flipped
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over
every five minutes so you would look up
to see your time
uh all these different ways that would
change and adjust over the years which
is kind of interesting
to see all those things uh
now obviously computerized and
everything but it's kind of neat to see
that
the next photo from the Historical
Society is the photo I use for my cover
of the book which actually you can see
the seven painted
uh right before the finish line which they
obviously don't do anymore but it's just
kind of neat to see the actual seven
there and you see all the people on both
sides um again the great interest of
this um
race is just
it just brings so many people to the
cave to the point that people have told
me
that they've bought homes here
uh the president of Perrier that
Tommy Leonard had spoken to said that
he got a rental here he ran that year's
race with some people from Perrier the
first year in 77
and they fell in love with the Cape so
much they got property they got they
they um would rent here and other people
have bought homes here or summer homes
or something because they just love the
place they love the community um and that's
so
felt so welcome
um from Falmouth so it it the impact
that Tommy Leonard did with a small race
for 92 finishers to raise money
for some uh high school girls back in
1973 has become where it is now which is
just truly amazing with the Shermans and
the Carrolls um taking this for so many
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years just under 40 years to to where it
is now with Dave McGillivray uh and
Jennifer Edwards and Matt Auger and them
it's just it's unbelievable the way this
race has just grown and grown and grown
um the next photo you actually see of
the ball field at Falmouth Heights
uh where you go to get your hot dog the
old Bill Dougherty hot dog um I remember
he was saying that
at one point they thought he had to find
a better machine to actually pump out a
thousand hot dogs at a time which is
pretty good
prior to that it's like a little longer each
hot dog but you're on the field you
finished um
you didn't care you wait you talk to
your your friends and everything the
next photo that you see the volunteers
under the tent
um
it's become such a tradition with these
volunteers you see families giving out
water same families year after year if
you run this race
several years in a row you see the kids
grow up
it's become such so ingrained in the
town in the community like I said you'll
see family members helping out and
eventually running as well which is
great um but just to see that interest
just community-wide and spectators
I love it I love seeing that uh the next
photo nice aerial shot
of um Falmouth Heights the Historical
Society provided this one this really
shows you how the ball field is
a little rectangle um and what's neat on
the left that you'll see a member
it was Rich Sherman or John Carroll was
telling me that they actually had to get
uh a US Coast Guard permit because he's
I think we're the only road racer that
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needs a Coast Guard permit
um
there used to be boats that would follow
the race in the water because you could
do that most of the course
most of it other than the inner harbor
when you're going in and stuff
you can see from the water so both would
be at Woods Hole
and they would just go and follow the
race and you had this little caravan of
boats going to Falmouth Heights well
that can be kind of dangerous because
swimmers there to the left of the beach
and everything so they had to get
parameters parameters there
and also if the President
was visiting Martha’s Vineyard which uh
President Obama did for several years um
there's like a no-fly zone where the
president is up 10 miles I think it is
and Martha’s Vineyard is within 10 miles so
you couldn't have helicopters or fly
zones so you had Secret Service
was snorkeling along the beach looking
for things if there's any
all sorts of
added things for a race director that
most races don't need but that's Falmouth
does
and that stretch of beach day was
interesting the first few years um
because the police didn't want
open public drinking of beer that
spilled out into the Falmouth Heights the
ball field there after the Brothers Four
the first couple years
um people got sort of clever and they
would bury the keg
in the sand the night before
um
and sort of mark it where
it was and the next morning they would
bring the tap
for those people who remember what kegs and
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beer taps were
find a little marker to kind of uncover
a little bit of the sand and put the
beer tap in and you see these beer taps
lined up on the beach well the police
got you know smarter than that and they
use metal detectors to figure out where
the kegs were and dug them up so they
don't do that anymore but it's fun
seeing the beer taps lined up
the next photo is uh of Tommy Leonard
right outside of the Captain Kidd that
dedicated the start line which is now
officially called the Tommy Leonard Start
Line and there's a nice plaque there
that people can see and visit if you'd
like uh one thing that was great about
Tommy Leonard uh just just
his
ultimate benevolence
and selflessness and just the things he
did for community for people
that everyone recognized and wanted to
honor him which I’m glad they did while
he was still around to enjoy it
um there's a nice bench uh down near the
ball field um the
Mass Ave. bridge is the Tommy Leonard
Bridge where you run under that for the
Boston Marathon which is at the corner
of Mass Ave. there where the Eliot Lounge
used to be where he worked
um so it's nice that everybody honored
him and then when he did pass in 2019
um there's a nice little painting of his
face and every mile marker so it's
really nice that Tommy was honored that
he knew uh all the people that he
touched and everything and uh so that's
I’m so glad for that
um and the last photo uh will end this
kind of shows the um another effect and
impact that Falmouth Road Race has its
offspring supposedly um the Cape Cod
Marathon and all their related races
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um
were created um as extensions from the
Falmouth Road Race of Courtney Bird and the
Sherman and Carrolls’ influence of these
different local races um
which is great to
expand running and expand
interest in the Cape and everything
which is which is excellent uh Joe
Concannon the sports writer for um
local papers around here in Boston area
um created Litchfield Hills Road Race in
Connecticut seven miler uh based on the
Falmouth Road Race tough race couple tough
hill there in Connecticut also a seven
miler been there for several several
years which is excellent uh the Beach
to Beacon 10k up in Maine Joan Benoit
Samuelson wanted to create
the same kind of atmosphere and
everything that Falmouth had so she
created that she got some ideas from
Dave McGillivray and the Falmouth Road Race
to create terrific race up in Maine
where she's from the Falmouth Walk
that Eddie Doyle and Tommy Leonard
created 30 years ago that still benefits
the community still walks the day before
uh the Falmouth Road Race um and
interestingly the Detroit Marathon
um
well the organizers when it was the
Motor City Marathon in Detroit came to
Falmouth Road Race unrelated to
recreating something and ran the
Falmouth Road Race and enjoyed what he
saw
so much so he wanted to replicate that
in some fashion back in Detroit
so they sort of reinvigorated renamed
the marathon to the Detroit Free Press
free press of the newspaper Detroit Free
Press Marathon and he wanted to have
some of the same kind of perks and
everything that the Falmouth Road Race had
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so it's reached all the way to Michigan
so it's reached away this small little
race that Tommy started
uh and getting little free raffles going
from store to store with his little
shopping cart and putting in purses and
gift certificates and whatever you could
collect back in 1973 to what it is now
uh it's truly amazing uh
thankful to all the volunteers and the
organizers and the community the runners
the spectators everyone's made this race
uh what it is today
a huge international global race with
that small town feel which is why people
keep coming back
um well I hope you enjoy this little uh
trek through the Falmouth Road Race
course and its history um
and that is it I want to thank everyone
for joining in well and thank you that
was really fabulous Paul I you know I
have lived in Falmouth for
30 years now and um I can remember the
the whole hurricane I arrived
shortly after Hurricane Bob um and that
was the photos were great the stories
are great um I had uh and the the photo
I love the photo of all the people on
top of the casino um and I wish the
casino was still there but that was a
great photo um and the whole history of
Perrier is you know their connection to
it
it's just it's fabulous now my question
for you is um
will you be running the Falmouth road
race this year no not this year no I’ve run it
a few times which I
I enjoy every year
and uh there's so many you bump into so
many great people I remember one year
before I really got to know Brian
Salzberg like I said one of the four
gentlemen now who run every year he's
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the one with a long white beard
a couple years they had a ferry that you
could that runners could take
to get to the starting line from
Falmouth I’m sitting next to this
gentleman the white beard and across
from me is this woman who was sort of
nervous and would talk I didn't know who
Brian was at the time and the woman
was nervous and were like are you okay
she actually nervous my first time I
said oh that's you'll be okay she goes
how many times have you run it I’ve run it
about four or five
she was aw really good I said yeah
I was telling a little bit about it
and she asked the gentleman next this is
the 38th running
when I met in the 38th year of the race
so she asked him how many times if he's
running he goes I run it 37 times this
would be my 38th because wow that's a
lot and all of a sudden I I wait I look at him
I said
at the time I said you’re one of the Falmouth
Five aren't you he said yes
I said she goes what's that I go
this gentleman is one of the five men
who run every year and he introduced
himself but it was so funny bumping into him
and going
yeah I kind of run them all you know it
was really kind of funny and you know so
she's like tell me all about it but you
meet all these great people on the
course they'll cheer you on
uh
whether it's like I said with Craig
Virgin seeing Bill Rodgers
you know on the greatest marathoners just
talking to everybody it brings you back
it's it's it's an amazing town anyway
it's like a second half
my godparents have lived here for
decades so I love coming to family
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that's and I have to say I live very
close to part of the race and every year
I live just off of Queen Street um so I
every year we just walk to the end of
Queen Street and one of the great things
is how many locals you still do see
running the race um even in the
trillions of people that show up and how
much fun and and energy you get just
from watching them race and everybody
applauding and everybody
so happy during the day that the road
race happens um it's really a great
thing and in your history the other
thing that I
took note of was that you know how many
local people are still around and or who
we know you know you mentioned Dr. Crago
who is my husband's that was my
husband's doctor um you know that
everybody does get involved and which
makes it one of the great things um I do
want to know if anybody who's listening
has a question that they want to ask you
can just write it up in the chat and I
will share that with Paul
I also want everybody to know that there
are signed copies of his book at Eight
Cousins
and my question for you Paul is
what is your next book project have you
got something in the works
um I was actually thinking about I I
just
in addition to the Born to Coach the
Bill Squires Story book and the Boston
Marathon one um
Modern America I was thinking about
either something on Steve Prefontaine or
maybe even trying to update the Falmouth
book
to include all the neat things as they
approach their 50th anniversary
um coming up I mean 50 years for for any
race but especially this one like I said
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has grown I mean you imagine 92 runners
the first year
to
on again this year that was staying like
13 000 in a small town
uh I remember was doing the research
there was so many different things
um again the town the race grew as the
town grew as the interest grew so a lot
of things were changing and they were
thinking about having a different course
um you know didn't want to have it
finished down at Falmouth Heights and
things or the too many runners
but as the town the growing pains of the
town and the race worked together it's
become what it had
Some towns it started races in the 70s uh
didn't
and they're no longer here so that's
like that's why I told you like that
Matt Auger quote that he was telling me
if you don't have the community behind
you it's true
and whatever the growing pains were it's
it's grown
to what it is now so um you know kudos
to everyone involved over the years and
decades
um with what the with the Shermans and
Carrolls and Tommy Leonard started and
Bill Dougherty and all those guys Courtney
Bird and just you keep going on and on
there's so many people
um
this is the fruit of their labor it's
it's amazing
what um you see and then taking it to
next level and the next level the next
level you know you have Dave McGillivray
and just all these different people
with the same goal of the race
you know that's the important thing and
you see that reflected in like the valet
with the bike uh valet for the amateur
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runners and then you know the host
families uh I remember Catherine Ndereba
telling me her she’s
from Kenya and her host family for years
would bake
uh Kenyan bread for her and take her
blueberry picking and she loved it every
year Deena Kastor one of our great
American marathoners
took her out her family host family took
her out to dinner
uh on Main Street I think I can’t
recall the name of the restaurant which is
no longer there and she just said to the
waiter surprise me so the waiter brought
a big
plate of pasta with a lobster on top and
cream sauce on top of that which she
loved
as the waiter's walking away she's so
how do I eat this and he turned around
and sort of waved his hands at her kind
of like you're using your hands and she
loved it so she's cracking this thing
open
use her hands in the fork with the pasta
ate the whole thing walk down the street
and got her lobster ice cream I mean
these are memories that these these
Olympians
who have raced all around the globe
they remembered these neat little
personal stories when I interviewed them
for the book I mean that's right
years later
you know of course they remember the
race yeah these are great stories
we actually have a question here for you
which is uh Russ Pelletier um asks have
you seen the time the Tommy Leonard
tribute stone across the street from the
Quarterdeck we are dedicating the Tommy
Leonard Crosswalk
this Friday
oh that's right cause they had to delay it that's
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right yeah Russ Pelletier brought that
along yeah the great uh the crosswalk
along uh across the street from the
Quarterdeck where Tommy Leonard had worked
for
years uh there's a nice monument there
it was dedicated um
when not many people could gather
uh several months ago it's a beautiful
stone with a nice plaque you really
should see it it says one end of the
crosswalk and the other end of the
crosswalk on main street is the Quarterdeck
and Tommy Leonard was there like
almost every day cutting fruit in the
morning and he would uh hold court it
was great you'd walk in there
I remember having lunch with him several
times just shooting the breeze and he'd
always look at the menu here's a little
table there and I’m going Tommy
don't you know this menu like you know
back and forth oh I might change and
everything I look at the way waitress
she's like you know whatever he always liked
the same thing but and he would greet
people coming in
I mean just shooting the breeze with him
having lunch and then
being interrupted like 20 30 40 times
which was great interrupt is not the
right word because he loved it and it
was great he would come in talk to
everyone who came in oh Mr. Leonard Tommy
oh I’m
from Texas I’m from this oh wait I
remember I’ve been there and he would
talk it was it was his whole face would
light up
you know it's like Superman getting his
energy from the sun he got his energy
from people
in every walk for life in every instant
so if you can be there for the
dedication it it it'd be so wonderful
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that the
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um
who just basically put this town on
the map in a good way of just being um
so positive I mean it just
you know I I’m sad talking about
sometimes because he's no longer here
but I’m really happy with all the great
memories and the time and everything
that he's given back so tonight
I’m glad Russ brought that up um
you know at that stone was a really nice
monument too to see
um and we have one more question um
asking you how many registered this year
and are they any are there any Olympians
I think we I think this 8 000 they had
to cap it for 8 000 and uh yeah several
Olympians um
and several former champions I don't
want to stop making a list in case I
Forget any of them um but one of the
big ones is Molly Seidel who just won
the bronze in the Olympic marathon she's
and she announced this before the
marathon
that she's going to run Falmouth and
she's going to go out last
and every person every runner she passes
a donation is going to be made to the
Tommy's Place which is a great place off
of Main Street um
in Tommy Leonard’s name really
you should look it up it's a beautiful
beautiful place uh so she's gone through
that she mentioned that even before she
she competed in the marathon
that she was going to do this as a nice
little way uh to give back so um
yeah it's a great fit I mean this
Falmouth has always had even on Olympic
years it had great fields
um especially the since 1980 when Rod
Dixon and Grete Waitz
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they were the first international
runners that really put it on the mark
globally that international runners
said oh yeah I kind of heard about
Falmouth now now you hear about it and
they come here to race
and the community welcomes I mean you
have people from so many different
countries um like you know Falmouth can
become an athlete's village so to speak
in that
you'll look around and you'll see people
from
dozens of countries
in this small little town of Falmouth I
love it it's just it's amazing how it's
just welcome
and then some places they come here they
don't have a beach so they like I want
to go into the water it's just it's
amazing you know these great athletes
you don't think of like normal things
like a beach you know
so it's great and having the host
families and community welcoming it's a
real nice that's that small town feel
that I was mentioning that this race has
in addition to
being this international race so it's a
great combination of the two
well I will um
thank you so much for
doing this talk uh this morning I think
everyone
if you didn't if you didn't see it all
or if you want more uh his book is A
History of the Falmouth Road Race
Running Cape Cod and as I mentioned
there are signed copies at Eight Cousins and
of course we always love it when you
shop locally as well um as well as
running locally um
thank you so much thank to all of you
and this will this has been recorded it
will be on uh our the library's YouTube
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page at some point and also FCTV will
probably have it running again
and thank you very much to FCTV for
actually filming this today for us um
thanks to you who came to listen
and certainly
uh thanks to Paul for telling us all
these great stories and what a great
collection of photos from Falmouth
Historical Society as well
that was a real treat
so uh we will um end it there and um we
look forward to seeing some of you run
the marathon
the marathon yeah I’m now calling that
the marathon which is interesting that
was actually one of the really
interesting pieces yeah it originally
was a marathon but the Falmouth Road
Race uh we always love it it's a great
event and we're so happy that it's come
back this year um and we hope all goes
well
so
thank you
all for yeah
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