Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want to run the Marathon." Joanne said wistfully to me yesterday as we headed out for out daily four-mile run-a ritual we have followed semi-faithfully, since the spring of freshman year...
...paths along the Charles were beautiful but deserted as we set out, all the real runners were at the Marathon, which pleased Joanne and me. You see, we have become some what of a spectacle along the River paths because we like to yell at each other over the din of our Walkman stereos (she has a tape player which is always blasting the Go Gos, and I have an FM model...
While we slogged through our short jaunt there were scores of other Harvard undergraduates, graduates, tutors and professors who did manage to compete some officially in yesterday's 86th Boston Marathon. And although all were thrilled to cross the finish line, descriptions of the race itself ranged from "horrible" to "outstanding. I can't want to do it again...
...Rodney Pearson, a Winthrop House tutor who turned in the best Harvard finish at 2.35, the Marathon was a "terrible" disappointment. "It was just too hot," he said glumly alter the race. "But if you've trained for five months, you get out there and you say. "I don't care--I'm going to run fast anyway, "that was what caused a lot of good runners to start walking around the 12-mile mark...
Chris Combs '84, who was running his first marathon, said that one thought kept him going throughout the race. "On the bus on the way to Hopkinton. I heard some guy say that he had kicked himself for a year for dropping out after 24 miles. I thought about that a lot when I wanted to drop...