Word: marathoning
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...happy with my time," said Uta Pippig, after becoming the female winner of the annual Boston Marathon. Who could blame her. Finishing in 2:25:11, Pipping's time was slower than the one that earned her first place last year. Meanwhile, she beat out ail but thirty-nine men in the field and finished considerably faster than any of the times posted in 1896, the event's inaugural year. Only relatively recently have the Boston Marathon and sporting events like it around the country opened their doors to female participants. Given a chance to compete, women like Pipping have...
...Harvard women's tennis team competed in its own version of a marathon this weekend, playing three matches in three days. The Crimson (12-8, 6-0 Ivy) burst out of the starting gate with a 7-0 win over Brown, Friday afternoon at Providence, R.I., and picked up the pace across the middle stages with a 6-1 win over Yale Saturday at New Haven. Harvard 7 Brown 0 Harvard 6 Yale 1 W&M 7 Harvard...
...Heartbreak Hill is up and down, up and down. It comes at a time when you hit the wall," said Geesaman, who finished his second Boston Marathon in a time of 3 hours and 50 minutes. "It is really traumatic...suddenly you just have nothing, you start getting chills, you can't lift your legs...
...three successive hills around mile 17, really put a damper on my run...I slowed down. Those were some of the most difficult hills I've ever run on," said Donlan, who finished his first marathon ever in a time around 3 hours and 50 minutes. "I wished I had practiced more on hills...
...midst of our season right now andrunning a marathon would be too much for them torecover from," Johnson said