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For Megumi R. Gordon ’05 and Aidan S. Madigan-Curtis ’07, it was the last option. They ran alongside over 20,000 others and numerous students from Harvard to compete in the 109th annual Boston Marathon.
Gordon and Madigan-Curtis began the day near the grassy lawn in front of Lowell House, chatting with about 10 other runners while the bus that would take them all to the marathon’s starting point, Hopkinton, Mass., patiently idled.
Madigan-Curtis got up earlier, at 7 a.m., in order to pack her bag and grab a few bananas, she says. Worried that she might oversleep, Madigan-Curtis decided to enlist some outside help.
To get pumped for the race, Madigan-Curtis sang such quintessential adrenaline-building tunes as the theme from the Sylvester Stallone boxing movie “Rocky” to herself.
About ten minutes after 8:30 a.m., Madigan-Curtis, Gordon, and the last few runners were herded onto the waiting bus by Atomic Runners’ Collective Marathon Coordinator Eric T. Hoke ‘06, who helped organize the transportation to the marathon.