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...Koivumaki '68, who works in Harvard's Alumni Office, the marathon was his birthday present for turning 36 yesterday. "I'm not sure I'd run it again," he remarked last night. "I think a lot of people out there wished that Phidippides had dropped dead after 20 miles instead...
While we slogged through our short jaunt there were scores of other Harvard undergraduates, graduates, tutors and professors who did manage to compete some officially in yesterday's 86th Boston Marathon. And although all were thrilled to cross the finish line, descriptions of the race itself ranged from "horrible" to "outstanding. I can't want to do it again...
...Rodney Pearson, a Winthrop House tutor who turned in the best Harvard finish at 2.35, the Marathon was a "terrible" disappointment. "It was just too hot," he said glumly alter the race. "But if you've trained for five months, you get out there and you say. "I don't care--I'm going to run fast anyway, "that was what caused a lot of good runners to start walking around the 12-mile mark...
Chris Combs '84, who was running his first marathon, said that one thought kept him going throughout the race. "On the bus on the way to Hopkinton. I heard some guy say that he had kicked himself for a year for dropping out after 24 miles. I thought about that a lot when I wanted to drop...
Combs, who called the marathon "one of the worst experiences of my life," described the race as consisting of three stages. "First you get out there, then out you wait 50 minutes in line at the toilets so that you arrive at the starting line at two before 12, and then--when you cross the finish line and think it's all over--you have to walk around in pain looking for people...