Sunday, May 31, 2009
Derek Clayton: first guy to go sub 2:09 - 40 years ago...
“Gee whiz. I don't know. It's getting pretty quick. I still don't know if I'll see a 2hr marathon because these guys, none of them are training any harder than me. I can say that for a fact."
Really? Gebrselassie ran 250km (156 miles) a week during his buildup to Berlin. Well, Clayton ran 250 miles a week.
“It was all experiment," he says now. “I didn't have books or magazines back in my day. I was flying blind."