Word: marathonical
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Many Harvard students greet Monday morning with a groan, exhausted either by Sunday night’s homework marathon or by a particularly mean weekend hangover. As these students roll out of bed, sophomore Lindsey Scherf is already running throughout Cambridge, clocking the first miles of her grueling 90 to 100 mile week...
...While Scherf currently focuses on her competition around the Ivy League, she has her sights set on the senior cross country championships in Japan and even possibly the 2008 Olympics, where she could compete in races ranging from 1,500 meters to a marathon. She does not have the time—nor the energy—to train for marathons during the season, but hopes one day to add those 26.1 mile races to her resume...
After two marathon matches, the Crimson finally got a chance to catch its breath, sweeping the Crusaders (30-20, 30-23, 30-26) to close out the New England Challenge with a 2-1 record...
Madhu Beriwal equates disaster planning with marathon running. "You train and time yourself and figure out what you need to do to achieve it," she says. As the president of Innovative Emergency Management, Inc., in Baton Rouge, La., Beriwal knows about training for marathon-size catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina. Her company played a role in the Hurricane Pam simulation, which involved almost 300 officials getting ready for a major-category storm hitting New Orleans. But after witnessing the devastation left by Katrina and the blundered response from relief officials, Beriwal wonders if the training needs to be rethought. "The system...
...cook every single recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Powell, 30, is not a domestic goddess; she's emphatically, unembarrassedly a domestic mortal. But she is also a genuinely gifted thinker and writer about food. As we learn in the account of her culinary marathon, Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (Little, Brown; 320 pages; Sept. 28), Child's gastronomical masterpiece teaches Powell precious lessons about herself. Chief among them? That "you are human, and as such are entitled to that most basic of human rights, the right...