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This past weekend, during the 40,000-strong Chicago Marathon, I joined in at mile 16 and ran behind two men: one dressed as Prior and the other dressed as Wood. In full gear, wearing baseball pants and carrying gloves, they finished the marathon slapping high fives along the way. Hundreds of other runners were wearing Cubs shirts, trading in their running jerseys to show team allegiance. And there was still plenty of support for Boston in the crowd. Spectators on the sidelines would shout “Go Red Sox” as I ran, and every...
...mogul P. DIDDY may finally soak some sweat into that tracksuit when he runs the New York City Marathon next month to raise money for children's charities. Admitting he's not well prepared for the event (he's on a strict regimen of only one party a week), he says, "If I have to crawl, I'm gonna finish the race." Oddly, his fitness plan includes a low-carb, high-protein diet, precisely the opposite of what most pasta-scarfing distance runners eat. But then, they don't have a Bentley for a sag wagon...
Tsai also has confidence in his audience; he crafts his films with marathon distances between cuts because he hopes “that the audience will stay with the image long enough to get a real grasp of the emotion...
Sweating it out in the dense heat of the Riviera/ITA All-American Championships, held in sunny Pacific Palisades, Calif., junior co-captains Courtney Bergman and Susanna Lingman, junior Alexis Martire and sophomore Eva Wang are entering the final days of an eight-day tournament marathon, which began last Saturday, Oct. 4 and runs through Sunday...
Daly paced herself to run the Paris Marathon, but when it comes to climbing Microsoft's corporate ladder, the 36-year-old sprints. In a decade she advanced from account rep to head of the company's largest domestic sales region. During the three years Daly was general manager for the New York--New Jersey district, sales in the business-products line shot up 114%. This summer, Daly hopped to Paris to run the company's $500 million communications division, covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa...