Rosie Ruiz post Boston Marathon interview April 21, 1980 — Transcript

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1. 0:00i just saw someone stumble out of the
2. 0:02crowd uh in front of me across the
3. 0:04street this was on commonwealth ave
4. 0:06probably about a half mile from the
5. 0:08finish
6. 0:09um
7. 0:09she was in track clothes and wearing a
8. 0:12number but i thought someone had just
9. 0:14sort of stumbled into the race maybe
10. 0:16somebody was a little crazy or something
11. 0:17women's winner in the boston marathon
12. 0:18today with a time of 231 and change now
13. 0:20we don't know how many seconds that is
14. 0:22it may be a new american record what was
15. 0:24the time in your first ever marathon and
16. 0:26where was it it was two hours and 56
17. 0:28minutes and 33 seconds in new york last
18. 0:31year and so you improved from two hours
19. 0:33and 56 minutes to two hours and 31
20. 0:35minutes
21. 0:37what do you attribute that improvement
22. 0:38in time to
23. 0:40um i don't know
24. 0:44you been doing a lot of heavy intervals
25. 0:46um someone else asked me that i'm not
26. 0:48sure what intervals are
27. 0:50what are they well intervals are track
28. 0:52workouts that are designed to make your
29. 0:54speed improve dramatically and if you
30. 0:55went from a 256 to 231 one would
31. 0:58normally expect that you do a lot of
32. 0:59speed work is someone coaching you or
33. 1:01advising you
34. 1:02uh no i advise myself
35. 1:05it was a fantastic performance rosie
36. 1:07congratulations
37. 1:09rosie ruiz the mystery woman winner we
38. 1:11missed her at all our checkpoints she
39. 1:13came through the finish in a fantastic
40. 1:14231 we have to confirm that time at this
41. 1:17point but she was way ahead of a
42. 1:18world-class field here today in the
43. 1:19boston marathon thank you rose thank you
44. 1:26in the end she