Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Koivumaki '68, who works in Harvard's Alumni Office, the marathon was his birthday present for turning 36 yesterday. "I'm not sure I'd run it again," he remarked last night. "I think a lot of people out there wished that Phidippides had dropped dead after 20 miles instead...
Combs, who called the marathon "one of the worst experiences of my life," described the race as consisting of three stages. "First you get out there, then out you wait 50 minutes in line at the toilets so that you arrive at the starting line at two before 12, and then--when you cross the finish line and think it's all over--you have to walk around in pain looking for people...
After listening to marathon horror stories, massaging a cramped and semi-comatose roommate, and knowing the condition of my heart after a very leisurely short run, my immediate leaning is to concede defeat in next year's marathon right now and leave the crazy race to the kinds of people who climb Mt. Everest just because it exists...
...fact, I can already foresee Patriot's Day 1983, with absolute clarity: Joanne will turn to me while we stretch and say, "I wish I had run the Marathon. "I will agree, and we will strap on our Walkmans and head on down the River for a four-mile...
Every runner who has ever run in the Boston Marathon says that what sets the annual Hopkinton-to-Prudential Center run off from the other 26.2 mile tracks are the endlessly encouraging spectators who line the course. "The crowds are always great they're unbelievable," said Winthrop House tutor Rodney Pearson yesterday after turning in a 2.35 effort...