Word: marathoned
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...delicious and malevolent self-inflicted agonies you describe in "The Appeal of Ordeal" [ESSAY, May 14], only marathon dancing is wholly understandable. It was done during the Depression in order to have a place to eat and sleep, standing...
...interrupts another angry man "I 'm pretty sure that it's the final mile of the marathon and the events of the decathlon...
...threat to the future of black people without equal." Last week a national black sorority, Delta Sigma Theta, held the first of 43 local conferences it has planned on the subject. At Nashville's Fisk University, about 200 scholars and officials from all over the country gathered for marathon discussions - alternately erudite and emotional, brooding and hopeful - on the black family's plight...
...first troubling sign appeared just over a year ago. A small groin pull led to a disappointing fourth in the World Cross Country Championships in Great Britain. A month later he finished fifth in the Rotterdam Marathon. His nadir came in August at the World Track and Field Championships in Helsinki. Fighting off bronchitis, he finished last in the 10,000 meters. The gritty and fiercely proud runner could hardly recognize himself. "I know that wasn't me out there," he said. Salazar took two weeks off, the first holiday he had allowed himself since he was 13. Bewildered...
...race of a different kind is just beginning for the world's fastest female marathoner. Joan Benoit, 26, the plucky, pint-size distance runner from Freeport, Me., had seemed a good bet to challenge Norway's Grete Waitz in this year's Olympic marathon, the first ever for women, but on March 20 during a 20-mile run near her home, she noticed a peculiar pain in her right knee...