Word: rafto
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...Says Rafto, "The people who are invited to camp are" (pausing just long enough for Mark Meyer to fill in the blank with "crazy") "expected to be ready...
...down and almost totally obscured by a mass of towels, heat pads and sweatpants. He looks more like a mummy than the Harvard cross-country captain, but a rustle of movement and then a groggy head rising from beneath the heap of cotton reveals his identity. It is Stein Rafto, standing up in pain to lead the Crimson cross country team on a long early morning...
...eighth day of a 15-day training camp at the Grottonwood Baptist Center ("We train here to get moral purity," quips coach Bill McCurdy, a Harvard institution), in the woods of Groton, Mass. Rafto is one of seven runners punishing themselves there with workouts that total more than 120 miles a week...
...matter what you tell the incoming sophomores," Rafto says, "it's a little bit more and a little bit harder than you think." Quite simply, it is a pure athletic test, one that drives runners to limits that they might have once thought unattainable...
...injured list are Pete Fitzsimmons and Stein Rafto, whose return would spark a big boost in the Crimson performance...