Ted Corbitt

Ted Corbitt a distance runner recently passed away. Some excerpts from his obit:

"By his own count, Corbitt ran 199 marathons and ultramarathons, which are typically races of 50 or 100 miles or 24 hours. (Marathons are 26 miles 385 yards.) He won 30 of those races and never dropped out of one until he was 75, he said. He trained by running as many as 200 miles a week."

"At various times, Corbitt held American records in the marathon, the 100-mile run and the 25-, 40- and 50-kilometer events."

"His training regimens were legendary. For a time, he ran 200 miles or more a week, often in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx and Prospect Park in Brooklyn. He once ran the marathon distance every day for a month. He often ran a 31-mile loop around Manhattan in about 3:45. Sometimes he did two loops. He also trained with weights."

"Until 1973, he ran to work every day, sometimes making a 20- to 30-mile detour through Westchester."