Word: marathoning
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Though Schlesinger, a Yale graduate, is so newcomer to the sport of long-distance running, his 2:11:54 third-place finish was the biggest surprise in the largest marathon the world...
...long time. It preoccupied him. It took up hours of his time. Schlesinger wanted to be a great runner. And last Sunday, the first-year Law School student saw his dream come true when he beat almost 15,000 runners, to take third place in the New York City Marathon...
...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...
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