Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pushed himself some more six weeks ago, when he completed the Nike Marathon in Eugene, Oregon...
...only Schilesinger's third marathon, and be was shoched to find himself to high to the field with only two miles to go "My worry at this point," Be smiles, "was that I would trip, or that I would be stunned by some unexpected, spontaneous sort of caratclism made me over which I had no control...
Always a highly competitive and dedicated athlete, Schlesinger received little recognition for his efforts before last Sunday. But his list of accomplishments on the road and the track is an impressive one. As a Yale freshman, Schlesinger broke 1972 Olympic marathon champion Frank Shorter's school record for the six-mile event. In his senior year, he took first in the 5000 meter race at the Harvard, Yale Oxford, Cambridge meet Two years later, as an Oxford student, he won the same race...
While he was in Korea, Schlesinger let competitive running slide for a while, until last March, when the first International Seoul Marathon was held. "I thought 'This is it, Dan, this is your last chance to run a marathon,'" he recalls. So the lanky 5-foot-10 130-pound runner dedicated four months to an intensive training schedule, running 10 miles twice a day and 15 to 20 mile jaunts on Sundays...
...mere eight months, Schlesinger had risen to the ranks of the top marathon runners in the world. But he had more on his mind than racing and his 20 mile-a-day training regimen. He had growing responsibilities in his first, intensive year at the Law School...