30 DAY WATER FAST WEIGHT LOSS

Mystery Mile: #2 Albert Campion

With his first case Albert Campion scored a genteely British coup. His new client, though, is the very American Judge Crowdy Lobbett. His Honor has come into possession of evidence identifying the criminal mastermind behind a gang that is terrorizing New York, and the gang, in response, has begun terrorizing Judge Lobbett. For safety, Campion sends the Judge and his family to Mystery Mile, a secluded house deep in the British countryside. But that safety is illusory: Soon after their arrival the local vicar is killed, a clear message from the gang. The gang, however, has underestimated Campion. Beneath his stream of banter is a razor-sharp detective's intellect, and he is soon sending deadly serious messages of his own.

Steve Prefontaine with Kerry O'Brien and Emiel Puttemans after running the indoor two-mile event, Los Angeles Times Indoor Games, February 11, 1972. Runner's World photo, May 1972, by Stan Pantovic.

---The following is extracted from Tom Jordan's book, "Pre"---

Pre had hoped to run against 34-year old former two-mile world record holder George Young, but Young passed up the race. Pre instead ran against Australian Kerry O'Brien, the indoor two-mile world record holder, and Belgian Emiel Puttemans, considered a threat at the 1972 Olympic games. Pre won the race in 8:26.6, with Puttemans a half-lap behind in second.

"He sure is a speedy little bug," O'Brien conceded. "I just wish I could have met the little bug last year."

"And I wish he'd stop calling me a little bug." Pre responded. "But wasn't that a super race?"

By the time the 1972 outdoor track and field season began, Pre had not lost a race at any distance over a mile in a year and a half.

--- The below is extracted from a Eugene Register Guard story, Feb. 12, 1972---

Pre grabbed the lead after the half-mile mark and gradually moved away. His time was only .4 second off the American indoor record held by Frank Shorter.

Emiel Puttemans, the outdoor world record holder in the 2-mile with 8:17.8, edged Kerry O'Brien for second in 8:39.2. This was Puttemans first indoor race. O'Brien placed third in 8:39.6. The fourth runner, Kerry Pearce, dropped out.

"It was a beautiful meet, but after the first half-mile my lungs began burning from the cigarette smoke," explained Pre. "It was a hard race, hard to run all alone, but the fans were very responsive and they helped me a lot with their cheering when I was hurting with two laps to go."

Pre's laps were 65, 63, 63, (4:14.9 mile), 63.8, 63.9, 64.4, and 61.6.

This was Pre's second race and victory of the 1972 indoor season, having won the two-mile in Portland, Oregon, two weeks prior in the same time.

---The below information is primarily derived from Wikipedia---

Emiel Puttemans (born 8 October 1947) was a Belgian middle- and long-distance runner, who set world records for 3000m (7:37.6) in 1972, for 2 miles (8:17.8) in 1971, and for 5000m (13:13) 1972.

Puttemans was born in Leuven, Belgium. He won a silver medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in on the 10,000 metres and finished in fifth place in the 5000 metres event, behind fourth place finisher Pre.

His pattering strides were well suited to tight indoor tracks and he set long-lasting standards indoors in 1973: 2000m (5 minutes dead), 3000m (7:39.2) and two-miles (8:13.2), and in 1976 for the 5000m (13:20.8).

His championship record did not do justice to his abilities. He competed at four Olympic Games but only once met with any success, in 1972 when he was 2nd at 10,000m and 5th at 5000m. He did, however, win the European Indoor 3000m in 1973 and 1974.

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Australian Kerry O'Brien (born 17 April 1946) competed in the middle distance events, especially the 3000m Steeplechase. He was born in Adelaide, South Australia.

He represented Australia in the 1966 and 1970 in the Commonwealth Games, and the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics.

O'Brien was the world record holder in the men's 3000m Steeplechase for over two years (1970–1972), setting a time of 8:21.98 at Berlin on 4 July 1970.

At the 1970 Commonwealth Games, O'Brien fell at the final water-jump, while leading, and failed to finish the race. He also fell during the 1972 Olympics.

He retired in 1973 with a total of nine Australian Championships to his credit. He won one Cross Country title, one 5000m title and seven Steeplechase championships.

Steve Prefontaine in a post-Olympic 2 mile race in the International Athletes Club track and Field meet, the Crystal Palace, London, 15 Sep 72. New Zealander Rod Dixon, behind him, won the race.

After the race, Pre refused to shake Rod's outstretched hand, snapping "If you ever do that again, I'll kick your Kiwi behind." Pre was angry because, unlike US meets wherein runners in a long-distance race take turns setting the lead pace, Pre had to set the lead pace the entire race. This is always more tiring for a runner because the lead has to break the wind, with others behind benefiting by drafting behind the lead. Rod followed behind Pre until he kicked out in the final 200 meters, taking the lead and winning the race. Pre had nothing left to retake the lead. This is the same situation that, in part, cost Pre a chance of a medal at the 1972 Olympic 5000m finals. Rod set a New Zealand record in the London race, and Pre the new US record.

Top finishers:
1. Rod Dixon (NZ) 8:19.4 - NZ Record
2. Pre (OR-US) 8:24.8
3. David Black (UK) 8:25.4

Pre had finishe fourth in the 5000m event of the Munich Olympic games just six days earlier--Dixon failed to qualify for the final. Pre and Rod met next in 1973 in Stockholm. Rod won again kicking past Pre in the final 300 meters with a time of 8:14.4, off the world record. Rod competed against Pre more often than any other runner in the post-Olympic era. He beat Pre more than once and they eventually became good friends. In a race in Milan with Pre, John Walker, and Rod, Pre gave it his all. Two days later Rod watched Pre run a 3:58 mile in a workout, rest 7 minutes, then run a 3:57 mile. His respect for Pre grew from then on.

In the 1974 IAC meet in London, Pre entered the September 13th two mile race in a field that included Lasse Viren, the gold medalist in the 5000m in the 1972 Olympics; Brendan Foster, the British distance runner phenom who won a distance event in the European Championships in Rome five days earlier and held the world record on the 5000m; England's David Bedford who held the 10,000m world record; Tony Simmons, the 10,000m silver medalist in the European Championships; David Black who won the 10,000m silver in the Commonwealth Games; and Graham Crouch of Australia. Foster and Viren had run in a distance race in Rome race in which Foster blew away the competition handily.

Crouch led in the first half of the 2 mile with a world record pace equal to Foster's world record of 8:13.8. At 4:11.5 Foster burst through to the lead as Crouch faded. Viren and the others, except for Pre, let him go, ceding the race to Foster. Only Pre held grimly to Foster's pace to try and stay with him. The duel lasted 500 yards until Pre stepped onto the grass, beaten. "It is only the second time in 10 years that I have dropped out of a race," he said. "Foster's good. He's exceptional. I wish that I had felt decent because i don't like to let myself down. I just felt like a slug." Foster finished at 8:23.4, 9.6 seconds more than his world record set at the IAC meet in 1973. Foster had come in fifth in the 1500m of the 1972 Olympics. In the two years prior to the 1974 IAC meet 2 mile race, Foster had run 7 5000m races, winning six. Only Ben Jipcho of Kenya had beat him.

A pampered Long Island princess hits the road in a converted bus with her wilderness-loving husband, travels the country for one year, and brings it all hilariously to life in this offbeat and romantic memoir.

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