eventually winning the Boston Marathon in both 1936 and 1939 and become a member of the 1936 U.S. Olympic team. Salimeno once said, "Tarzan ran against people, not against numbers. He probably could have broke other records, but I never pushed him. When you're in a race you don't go out for records, you go out to win." Heartbreak Hill and 1936 Boston Marathon victory Heartbreak Hill, an ascent over 0.4-mile (600 m) between the 20 and 21-mile (32 and 34 km) marks, near Boston College, is the last of four "Newton hills", which begins at the mark and challenges contestants with late climbs after the course's general downhill trend to that point. Though Heartbreak Hill itself rises only vertically (from an elevation of ), it comes in the portion of a marathon distance where muscular glycogen stores are most likely to be depleted—a phenomenon referred to by marathoners as "hitting the wall." "Tarzan" Brown had taken off so fast at the start of the 1936 Boston Marathon that the press followed the second runner John A. Kelley until the 20-mile mark, and it was on this hill that Kelley caught up to Tarzan. As Kelley overtook Tarzan—an amazing feat given the steady record-breaking pace Tarzan had set—Kelley condescendingly patted Tarzan on the back. What followed was a struggle between Tarzan, who took the lead on the downhills, and Kelley, who took the lead on the uphills, until Tarzan finally took the lead again to win the race, as Kelley faded to a fifth-place finish. This struggle inspired reporter Jerry Nason to name the last Newton hill "Heartbreak Hill" because Tarzan "broke Kelley's heart" there. 1936 Olympic Games and iron man stunt Brown was selected to compete on the U.S. Olympic team for the 1936 Olympic Games in Nazi Germany, and was a teammate of the legendary track and field star Jesse Owens. There are various stories of what occurred while Brown was in Germany for the 1936 Olympics. It is known that for more than half of the Olympic marathon, Brown was in the top five when an issue with leg cramps arose. Later in 1936, Brown won the venerable Port Chester, NY marathon in 2:36:56.7 The next day, October 12, he won a second marathon, the New England Marathon Championship in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 2:45:52, which he later stated was to prove to critics and detractors that