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Other sites are best enjoyed by car, like Ubehebe Crater, where winds scream over the rim of a stunning half-mile-wide, 500-ft.-deep crater formed 4,000 years ago, when rising molten basalt met cold, shallow groundwater. The mixture exploded violently, blowing off a massive lid of sedimentary rock and blasting cinders over 6 sq. mi. The multihued rocks that ring the interior of the crater were used for location shots in the original 1977 Star Wars...
...Mile 21: Boston College. A lot of drunk cheering. Offered a beer, politely declined by wave of hand and heavy breathing...
...Mile 22.3: Can’t feel what will later turn out to be severe chafing and sunburn on legs. Three of my best friends from Currier come out of nowhere and start running with me. Two have flip-flops. One of them, Natalie Vaz MacLean ’03, starts yelling at the onlookers to “cheer for Kenyon and Anthony! Cheer, dammit...
...Mile 25: Citgo Sign: done. Hancock Tower: next. Pain: increasing exponentially...
...Mile 26.2: Blessed, blessed finish line. Now where is my Kevlar space blanket...