Word: marathoned
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...group includes a couple of marathoners. A member of the team that won the New York City Women's Marathon last year, Reporter-Researcher Ellie McGrath trains by jogging 17 miles along the Hudson River several times a week. And then there is Reporter-Researcher Paul Witteman, who took up marathon running after he was beaten in a ten-mile race by an eight-year-old girl. Says Witteman of his first experience in the Boston Marathon six weeks ago: "After 15 miles I really wanted to quit. Then I felt a hand on my back...
...better shape, the 240-lb. man who can pick up the front end of a Honda Civic or the 89-lb. woman who can run the Boston Marathon in 2:48:33, as 41-year-old Miki Gorman did this year? The zealots of the new fitness say, with rueful shakes of their heads, that if the weight lifter can't run a mile and three-quarters in twelve minutes (assuming he is under 30), he can't claim to be in excellent shape, and that if he can't trundle at least one mile in that...
...temperature was close to 90°. By the 20-mile mark, 35-year-old Romance Language Teacher Alberto Meza gave up and rolled under a faucet in the Johnson's Mound Forest Preserve. Water streamed over his head and down over his red fishnet shirt with its Boston Marathon patch...
Richard Guse, a 42-year-old Mayville, Wis., businessman, finished the Aurora race in a little over seven hours, coming in third. He wore a red, white and blue bathing suit, down the front of which he poured ice cubes periodically. He said he runs a marathon each month. He started running a number of years ago when he was plagued by insomnia and drowsy spells. The exercise pulled him out of his physical slump. "I owe my whole life to it," he says now. Like Meza (and enough other middle-aged runners to suggest a personality pattern), Guse says...
Joggers become runners, and women, who until five years ago were not allowed to compete in the Boston Marathon, have now lowered the sex gap at the marathon distance of 26 miles 385 yards to less than half an hour (Derek Clayton holds the male record at 2:08:33, and Chantal Langlace is the female record holder...