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What would the astrologists and the numerologists say? Probably the same thing that most of our friends and relatives have been telling us over and over again these last few months of training: "You've got to be stupid, or crazy, or both, to run the Boston Marathon!" Today at noon, when we stand at the starting line in Hopkinton, Mass. with tens of thousands of other marathoners, we will test our sanity and celebrate a fortunate conversion of, appropriately enough, milestones. This Marathon Monday we fete our final day as 21-year-olds, as well as celebrate Patriot...
Inevitably, the final days before a much anticipated and, in this case, much prepared for day become time for reflection. The training is done, we have run our longest pre-marathon run, the last-minute panic has passed and a good, anxious nervousness has settled in and will stay with us until the starter's gun. Sitting in our cozy rooms, the wind from the most recent Nor'Easter banging at our windows, begging to come in, we contemplate that question a lot of people have been posing to us lately: Are we in fact crazy? Why would anyone...
...going to be a marathon, not a sprint," Harshbarger says...
...training for the [Boston] Marathon and it looked like it would be a very good warm-up," Kocher said. "I [also] think they raise awareness for very important issues...that don't get talked about enough, especially at a place like Harvard...
...partly by throwing his shirt into a nearby stream and sucking the moisture out of it), but not all of his limbs. The loss of his left leg hasn't slowed the 48-year-old down, though. On Feb. 17, the ex-Green Beret nurse competed in the Antarctica Marathon, sponsored by World team Sports, an organization that brings able-bodied and disabled athletes together. He didn't win, but his finish of 5 hr. 10 min. was a feat the indomitable runner described as "the ultimate in rehabilitation...