Alberto Salazar: 14 Minutes

Alberto Salazar at the 1977 Falmouth Road Race where he finished in 2nd place.

 Ever since reading an excerpt in Runner's World of Alberto Salazar's new book 14 Minutes: A Running Legend's Life and Death and Life. I can't wait to read a copy. It comes out tomorrow so the wait should be over soon. I would like to hear Alberto's perspective on his running and coaching career. I was in the Falmouth Road Race back in 1978 when he collapsed and was read his last rights. I also ran the 1982 Boston Marathon when he had the incredible "Duel in in Sun" with Dick Beardsley. I consider that race to be one of the greatest and most hard fought  marathon "races" of all time. The 14 minutes in the title does not refer to a slow Salazar 5000m race or the last few miles of a marathon, but rather to the 14 minutes where Alberto was considered clinically dead from a heart attack on the Nike campus back in 2007.

Here are two Runners World Brief Chats where Amy Burfoot asks some great questions of Alberto Salazar.
Runner's World Brief Chat 1 Alberto talks about his new book, his heart attack, and the "Duel in the Sun" Boston Marathon with Dick Beardsley.
Runner's World Brief Chat 2 Alberto talks about coaching Dathan Ritzebhein and trying to figure out why Dathan's "engine" hasn't produced a faster marathon and why he may hold Galen Rupp out of doing a fall marathon. He also talks about the simple and biggest mistake he made with his own running.
Cameron Stracher's review for the Wall Street Journal Cameron has been working on a book of the running boom in the 1970's including the Falmouth Road Race for which I have hopefully helped out a tiny bit!
The Rookie an excerpt from the book

Alberto and Galen Rupp talk about Alberto's heart attack:



John Brandt and Alberto Salazar talk about 14 Minutes.