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Residents of Louisiana's "cancer alley" -- the 120-km (75-mile) stretch of the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to New Orleans that is lined with 136 petrochemical plants and refineries -- have learned to endure choking fumes, stunted gardens, contaminated crayfish and abnormally high rates of cancer and other ills. But with help from Janice Dickerson, of the New Orleans-based Gulf Coast Tenants Organization, they are no longer suffering in silence...
...went off, I did not hear it. I was too far back in the pack. About five minutes after people started moving, I crossed the starting line and for at least the first half-mile of race I had to walk because the crowd was so dense...
Marathoning has taught me the art of a Zen start. With more than 26 miles ahead of me, not only would the first half-mile make almost no difference, but freaking out could do a lot more harm than good...
...race began. I started out fast, as I always do. I passed people and kept up with my running partner, who was aiming for a really fast time that, in my infinite cockiness, I had thought I could also achieve. After a few miles, I realized that I would not be able to sustain this pace and settled into a more manageable speed. For the next three hours and 20 minutes, I would knock off mile after mile, battle fatigue and pain--force my body to keep running even when it was screaming to stop...
...crossed the finish line at 4:01:30. Somewhere around the 20-mile mark, I had passed my running partner. Dazed and depleted, but with a smile of pride plastered across my face, I stumbled into the chute and started the long walk to recovery...