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Run for the hoses
With temps in the 90s, Georgetown undergrad Jack Fultz ran through a rainbow of garden hoses to win the 1976 Boston Marathon. We take a look back at that race on its 30th anniversary.

If you had the choice of a day to run 26 miles, 385 yards, it would not be April 19, 1976.
-- Boston Globe
Jack Fultz beat the heat to win the infamous 1976 Boston Marathon.
Jack Fultz beat the heat to win the infamous 1976 Boston Marathon. (Globe Staff Photo)
1976 BOSTON MARATHON > NEWS STORY

Archives US Collegian beats heat,
wins 80th BAA Marathon

In a race of attrition, Jack Fultz ran through a rainbow of garden hoses and wall-to-wall people clad in Bermuda shorts and bikinis, in record heat, to win yesterday’s 80th BAA Marathon race. (By Jerry Nason, Boston Globe)
1976 BOSTON MARATHON > COLUMN

Archives Some like it not so hot

It was 1:20 in the afternoon, with the sun beating tom-tom on the pavement at the corner of Washington St. and Comm. Ave. in Newton. (By Ray Fitzgerald, Boston Globe)
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along the way by degrees
You may have been able to escape the heat [on April 19, 1976] under the shade of the old elm in your backyard, but if you were one of the runners who braved the Marathon, these are the checkpoint temperatures you would have had to endure:

Hopkinton -- 90
Ashland -- 96
Framingham -- 90
Natick -- 85
Wellesley -- 93
Auburndale -- 78
Lake Street -- 78
Coolidge Corner -- 78
Finish Line -- 60

From the Boston Globe


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