Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city teachers union yesterday afternoon rejected an immediate strike following progress towards a new contract during a marathon negotiating session that lasted well into the morning...
...movie or TV writer could have fashioned a conclusion that was more cheerful, or at least clearer. In fact, the apparent end of the two-month-long actors' strike last week left about as many unanswered questions as the average episode of Dallas. After a marathon session, negotiators for the unions and the producers reached an agreement, but no one was certain when production would resume, or indeed if the 60,000 performers involved would ratify the contract at all. There were a few forced handshakes, but, as Industry Spokesman Philip Myers wryly phrased it, "there was no dancing...
They are now in their final frenetic weeks of training, crisscrossing city streets and country lanes, eating special foods, subjecting their bodies to all manner of special exercises. The object of all this self-inflicted agony is the Oct. 26 New York City Marathon, when 16,000 runners will try to pound out 26.2 miles (42.2 km) in the world's largest long-distance race. Few will be able to match stride with the likes of Four-Time Winner Bill Rodgers. But for many competitors, just finishing is its own special victory: they are convinced that long-distance running...
...pathology branch of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, and Colleague Bruce Waller have provided clinical evidence that Bassler is wrong. They studied the cases of five middle-aged men, 40 to 53, who died while running, including Maryland Congressman Goodloe Byron, a six-time Boston Marathon finisher...
...keep runners off stride. Cornell's Dr. Thomas Pickering, who has also studied HDL levels, reports that arrhythmias-abnormal heartbeat rhythms-occur more frequently during exercise and thus may be the cause of many unexplained deaths among runners. Says he: "A case could be made that the marathon runner is at a decreased risk of cardiovascular death when he is not running, but at an increased risk when he is." So what is a runner to do? Not to worry, says Roberts, who runs five to ten miles (8 to 16 km) a week: "I think that the purpose...