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tt.jaun iwo iod to iuyw on 32 iliilBiilliliSfc a nn. nn siptooDDoog mm bud By EDDIE COYLE to slow down much and you have to take more water on a cold day because you can sweat more and are more likely to feel the effects of hypothermia," Joe said. He figures he has run 100,000 miles over 1,500 races and taken more than 1,000 awards. Neither runner was disappointed with his time, but almost in unison they said: "We're not going to be running another marathon for a while." They expect to be ready in about three weeks for the NYRRC Winter Series races, ranging from 5K to 20 miles. As he headed for a hot shower, Joe quoted the late writer and actor Robert Benchley.

"Get me out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini." ough jaunt "The wind and the rain was terrible. It was a lot worse," they said. The headwinds in Brooklyn on Fourth Ave. and Bedford Ave. were rough, but the crowds were out in force and "great," they said.

"I was surprised at how the field was holding up," Tom said. "The cold weather made the runners more cordial than they are on a hot day," said Joe, who has had a chest cold for a few weeks and had to stop a few times. "But the winds on the bridges were brutal. I couldn't breathe with the crosswinds on the Verrazano." i praised the volunteers at the water stops, shivering as they passed out the water. "It's too cold Special to The News Joe and Tom Burns, a falher-and-son team from the NYC Marathon Class of '70, said they got a chilly reception from the weatherman but warm words from runners and spectators along the route.

But Tom was a bit disappointed by the absence of one spectator, his girlfriend, Myra Rivadeneira. "I got there a little late. I was waiting for my parents and they were late," she said. Tom said, joking, "You're sure you didn't want them to meet me yet?" His dad ran the first NYC Marathon in 1970 and Tom was a waterboy at one. Now he runs an oasis on 46th St, the Streetcar Cafe.

The elder Burns, an insurance consultant who is in his 50th year of running, ran 4:06 yesterday against 2:56 in 70. His best is 2:41, but he has broken three hours 50 times in 66 marathons. Tom clocked 3:43 yesterday, two weeks after running the Dublin Marathon. But both agreed the New Orleans Marathon they ran in 1979 was tougher than yesterday's five-bor- PAR 0 Salvador Garcia of Mexico had a brief but noisy marathon weekend, arriving unannounced Friday night, running strongly before slipping to 10th, then blasting every race organizer he could think of. "Everyone in the marathon is a hypocrite," said Garcia, who won in 1991.

"I felt like I was begging (to get in)." Garcia is a running eccentric, to say the least. He wore a white warmup suit that had two guns across the chest. He trains with his five Dobermans, named Hitler, Saddam Mao Zedong, Khadaffi and Che Guevera. Garcia claims he faxed letters to race officials to gain entry. He said he was snubbed.

"He never sent any faxes that I received," said Anne Roberts, who handles the elite athletes. "Once again, he is being Salvador." Roberts gave Garcia a number for the race, as well as a hotel room and per diem. Garcia was miffed that his plane fare wasn't paid. "Salvador has to realize he has not run well since 1991," Roberts said. "That's a long time between drinks." Sam's dash: Sam Gadless, an 88-year-old racewalker from Boca in 7:12:18.

"Piece of cake," said Gadless. California's Mavis Lundgren, also 88 and the oldest female entrant, finished in 8:11:09. Bridgework; The 75 wheelchair competitors had more than two miles taken off their route a decision that angered Dick Traum, president and founder of the Achilles Track Club. The decision was made after pieces of plywood kept blowing up off the Verrazano Bridge. The wood was laid over the four 36-foot expansion joints of the bridge to make it safer for the chairs to navigate the steel grating.

But when the plywood wouldn't stay put, the competitors were transported into Brooklyn. "There were plenty of ways around it," Traum said. "It was a total lack of management talent." Traum said people could have stood on the plywood to stabilize it, or the competitors could have been moved to the lower level. He the decision kept many of the competitors out in the cold for 2Vfe extra hours. The wheelchair race was supposed to start at 9:15, but many of them didn't begin until about two hours later.

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