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An Aggie in Boston
Marathoner wants to pass policeman, pack
By ANDY WILLIAMS
Staff Writer
Charles Blumentritt is looking for
ward to passing a policeman on the
road today — and the faster he’s
going when he does, the better.
Blumentritt, a 43-year-old associ
ate research specialist with the Texas
A&M University-based Texas Trans
portation Institute, is out of town to
run the Boston Marathon.
The “friendly policeman,” as
Blumentritt calls him, will be sta
tioned at the top of Heartbreak Hill,
20 miles from the starting line. The
hill is the last of four consecutive
inclines toward the end of the race.
The policeman will be there to
urge the tired runners on.
“He sits there in his car and talks
through a loudspeaker,” Blumentritt
said. “And what he says are things
like: ‘Congratulations. You’ve just
made it up Heartbreak Hill.’
“It’s just six miles now and it’s
downhill all the way.”
A marathon is 26 miles, 385 yards
long, and runners dread the final six
miles more than any others. Running
them often makes an athlete “hit the
wall.” A runner who has done this
has exhausted his energy reserves,
which are stored in the body as gly
cogen.
“You can be pretty well numb
from the waist down for the last six
miles,” Blumentritt said.
Blumentritt will have plenty of
company. He will be joined by about
7,500 other official entrants, includ
ing Tinker Murray, a graduate stu
dent at Texas A&M.
There will also be an enormous
number of “bandit” runners, who
aren’t registered with race author
ities.
Murray has been running
marathons since 1977. He won the
The course record is held by Bill
Rodgers of Boston, who has run just
over 2:09. Rodgers is the defending
champion and will run again this
year.
Blumentritt started running in
August of 1977 after going to watch a
friend work out on the Kyle Field
track. He decided to get some exer
cise himself, but found that one lap
around the 440-yard oval was all he
could do. Embarrassed, he began
running regularly.
Nearly three years later and about
20 less pounds, Blumentritt runs
almost 90 miles a week — 11a day
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except on Saturdays, when he runs
22.
After running in circles for 16
miles one day, he abandoned Kyle
Field’s track and now runs along the
east by-pass. He says his morning
runs are part of his routine now and
help him plan his day.
Unlike many serious runners,
Blumentritt ordinarily sets out on his
runs alone. But occasion
company.
“It’s difficult to imagine that)(
could go out to the east by-]
meet people, but I have,!
times,” he said. “If I happei
running near someone, I'Ui
and run with him.”
Today, Blumentritt 1
fairly near a friendly policemt I
first one he trained for seriously,
which was the Texas Relays race that
year. His best time, 2 hours 28 mi
nutes, is faster than any other local
runner’s.
No injuries in car ii
caused by faulty light
By BECKY SWANSON
City Staff
A car burst into flames Thursday
afternoon in the parking lot of Manor
East Mall in Bryan.
The driver of the car, Joseph
Dove, of 1806 Newton, Bryan, said
he put the cigarette lighter back in its
socket and smoke began coming
from the dash then the car burst into
flames.
A spokesman for the Bryan Fire
Department said a fire truck was sent
to the scene and no one was hurt in
the incident.
Bryan police reported that the
vehicle was a “total loss.”
The Bryan Fire Department
reported a minor fire in a
building at 1219 N. Texas Ave
Friday afternoon.
The spokesman said five
were sent to the scene, but only
remained because the fire was
control within three minutes ofl!
firefighters’ arrival.
The building suffered only !» •
damage, and there were noinjus, ,
the spokesman said.
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investigation, he said.
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