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After listening to marathon horror stories, massaging a cramped and semi-comatose roommate, and knowing the condition of my heart after a very leisurely short run, my immediate leaning is to concede defeat in next year's marathon right now and leave the crazy race to the kinds of people who climb Mt. Everest just because it exists...
...fact, I can already foresee Patriot's Day 1983, with absolute clarity: Joanne will turn to me while we stretch and say, "I wish I had run the Marathon. "I will agree, and we will strap on our Walkmans and head on down the River for a four-mile...
Every runner who has ever run in the Boston Marathon says that what sets the annual Hopkinton-to-Prudential Center run off from the other 26.2 mile tracks are the endlessly encouraging spectators who line the course. "The crowds are always great they're unbelievable," said Winthrop House tutor Rodney Pearson yesterday after turning in a 2.35 effort...
Joel Arnason '78, who returned to Harvard for the first time in four years to compete in the Marathon praised the support of the thousands of spectators "Not only did they keep me going when I really wanted to stop, but they supplied the water which kept the runners alive Water stations every four or five miles just aren't enough," he said...
Chris Combs '84, who was running his first marathon, found the crowd particularly encouraging around Wellesley. "There are only about nine feel between two columns of screaming girls," he said, "and if you're wearing a Harvard shirt it's really great...