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Podcast: Ultrarunning History
Episode: 76: The 100-miler: Part 23 (1983) The 24-Hour Two-Man Relay
Description: By Davy Crockett
This is a bonus episode about the Fort Meade races covered in episode 75.
In the 1970s, a 24-hour relay craze took place at high schools, colleges and running clubs. By 1972, Runner's World Magazine, in Mountain View, California, was publishing results along with some standardized rules for these relays participated by hundreds of runners. The Washington and Baltimore Road Runners Clubs were early adopters the relay format when they established a 24-hour 10-man-team relay race in 1970 on the track at Mullins Field in Fort Meade where participants would run one-mile legs. The event would eventually expand to 50-mile a...