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Ranging from distance-running veterans to first-time competitors, 50 Harvard students and staff members will lace their shoes for the Boston Marathon in April—part of a new initiative to raise funds for social-service organizations on campus...
...Harvard College Marathon Challenge (HCMC), launched this year, selected participants from a pool of 500 people who entered a lottery that closed last Saturday. Those picked will collect pledges to benefit both Project HEALTH and the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA...
...work with them,” said Craig F. Rodgers, a counselor at the Bureau of Study Counsel. “There are three prongs—community building, raising some funds for causes that are near and dear to the hearts of many undergraduates, and training for the marathon itself, which is a way of improving one’s physical and psychological health...
...always just wanted to run a marathon,” said Jacqueline E. Stenson ’08, who has never done it before. “I figured a marathon was a really good way to get myself in shape and to prove what I could...
HCMC participant Matthew R. Conroy ’07, by contrast, raced all summer and is running another marathon next weekend...