Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During spring break, Grigore PopEleches '95 and his brother Cristian Pop-Eleches '97 decided to run the Boston Marathon...
Yesterday, it all paid off. The two brothers finished the marathon in three hours and forty five minutes. And they credited their native country's poor public transportation, which forced them to bike to school every day, for their endurance...
...Boston Marathon time again, the time when tens of thousands of locals (and not-so-locals) take to a 26-mile, 385-yard course from Hopkinton to the Boston Public Library and think about nothing but sex and water for two to five hours, while the rest of us cheer them on and feel about as good about our own physical conditions as whale caca on the bottom of the Dead Sea. Neil is going to be one of the twenty or thirty Harvard students joining the active masses tomorrow, and he is feeling the full force of our resentment...
Neil is not your typical marathon runner, which makes the whole thing worse. He's a runner, for sure, and even a pre-med, but he's not particularly intense--not by a long shot. He's normal--a guy who would rather take a Jagermeister at the Grill than go twenty in fluorescent running tights. Normal...
...joke for about 30 minutes--all with the intent of psyching him out. We talk about his outfit, his planned pace and the prospect of having to hurl next to an attractive water girl. We discuss possible short cuts, we bring up that story about the first marathon guy dying and we even suggest that he wear a Cabot House t-shirt so that when he's lying in a puddle short of the finish line, people will attribute his misfortune to a life-long string of bad luck...