Word: marathonical
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When Molly R. Siegel ’10 tried running the Boston Marathon last year, she collapsed at mile 22 out of 26.2 and ended up in the hospital with a bad case of heat stroke...
...yesterday, despite that unfortunate experience, Siegel finished this year’s Boston Marathon as one of the participants in the Harvard College Marathon Challenge, a fundraising effort that began in 2005 to raise money for the Phillips Brooks House Association and Project HEALTH, an undergraduate organization that provides social services to low-income families...
...amazingly moving,” she said. “It’s the quintessential Boston event.” Running a marathon has always been one of Siegel’s personal goals, leading her to decide to try the Boston Marathon—the world’s oldest annual marathon—which takes place on Patriots’ Day and draws about 20,000 competitors from around the world each year...
Moulton said that he had not set foot in the Malkin Athletic Center before training for this year’s marathon. But because his personal interests lay in running and public service, HCMC presented a perfect opportunity. He added that the money he raised this year will be given to a PBHA prison tutoring program for which he volunteered as an undergraduate...
...only go to college in Boston once,” he said. “Why not try to run the Boston Marathon?” —Staff writer Victor W. Yang can be reached at vyang@fas.harvard.edu...