Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always thought all forms of public muscle building were unseemly. "I'm a closet exerciser," he says, "but "I'm seriously thinking about coming out." Senior Reporter-Researcher Sue Raffety resumed a running program she had stopped some years ago, and recently completed a 13.1-mile half-marathon in an eminently respectable 1 hr. 53 min. Raffety also swims a mile every morning before work. "Swimming and running," she says, are my total tranquilizer." Senior Editor Timothy Foote, who edited the cover, is a fitness veteran who started 20 years ago with the Royal Canadian Air Force routine...
...autumn equivalent of the Marathon, hearty exercise before dining at Locke-Ober's, an imitation of the olden Argonauts: call it what you will, the Head remains one of the most panoramic events in the country...
Tracking Shot #1--A checker Marathon rolls down the Mass Pike Extension toward the Brattle. In it is the pedestrian in the heavy wool sweater. Most of the traffic is headed toward Boston. At the toll the pedestrian in the sweater hands a quarter to a toll collector who barely acknowledges...
Tracking Shot #2--The pedestrian in the black coat walks out of a dormitory, passing a group of students in front. All nod, seemingly out of habit. The pedestrian walks over to the checker Marathon which has now pulled up in front of the dorm. The car is parked and they walk to another dormitory where the woman in the windbreaker is waiting, and then they continue until they reach the point where they are again walking past the Brattle, talking, with one looking up at the airliner...
Pearson is a member of the Greater Boston Track Club, placed 84th in last year's Boston Marathon with a time of 2 hours, 21 min., 40 seconds and runs approximately 90 to 100 miles per week...