Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stitches and hernias-the traditional rewards of running. Runners who speak of their exquisite pains (and many runners speak of nothing else) say the compensations are, and ought to be, ethereal: surges of joy, increased selfesteem, improved sex lives. But commercialism is afoot and mercenaries are gaining. The Boston Marathon is about to turn...
...next Monday looms like Heartbreak Hill. It figures to be the final Patriots Day for the Boston Marathon, and the last stand of undiluted amateurism. For reasons no less prosaic than television, the Boston Athletic Association intends to shift its noble race next year to Sunday, perhaps adjust the starting and finish lines slightly for commercial purposes, and, if all that isn't jarring enough, begin paying the winners. Will Cloney, 70, president of the B. A. A. and master of the marathon, contends that there is at least "a semantic difference between being paid and running for prizes...
...marathon time. And the Crimson wants to be there with you, as you make the trek from Hopkinton to the Pre next Monday. But you have to help us. If you are in any way affiliated with Harvard, and plan to run the Boston Marathon next week--of, officially or unofficially--please help our marathon coverage by calling or leaving a message for Tom Meyer or Caroline Adams at the Crimson...
...marathon time. And the Crimson wants to be there with you, as you make the trek from Hopkinton to the Pru next Monday. But you have to help us. If you are in any way affiliated with Harvard, and plan to run the Boston Marathon next week officially or unofficially-please help our marathon coverage by calling or leaving a message for Tom Meyer or Caroline Adams at the Crimson...
...marathon time. And the Crimson wants to be there with you, as you make the trek from Hopkinton to the Pru next Monday. But you have to help us. If you are in any way affiliated with, Harvard, and plan to run the Boston Marathon next week--officially or unofficially--please help our marathon coverage by calling or leaving a message for Tom Meyer or Caroline Adams at the Crimson...