Word: marathonical
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Early this morning, long before many students have woken from their Sunday night slumber, a handful of athletic and determined students will be en route to the starting point of the 109th Annual Boston Marathon...
...these prepared runners, the 26.2-mile event—which includes a quick tour through Wellesley College and a torturous climb up Heartbreak Hill at about the 20th-mile—represents the culmination of months of physically demanding training. The marathon is also an opportunity for some participants to raise money for charities and humanitarian causes...
...Atomic Runners’ Collective (ARC), a group that organizes weekly runs on Saturdays and Sundays all year, has arranged for an 8:30 a.m. bus to deliver runners from both the College and the Business School to the starting location in rural Hopkinton, Mass. According to ARC Marathon Coordinator Eric T. Hoke ’06, the early departure will give the students plenty of time to rest and hydrate before the race begins at noon...
...this morning’s preparations are just the finishing touches to a marathon that truly began months ago, around the new year, when most of the runners interviewed by The Crimson made their decision to run. The students offered many unique reasons for wanting to put their bodies to the test, but a strong recurring theme was support for a charitable cause...
Some of the runners are marathon veterans looking to improve on their past performance...