Word: thoughtfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While we were jogging along having a great time, we occasionally thought of those up front. Where were they by this time? Who was winning? I tossed these questions off as insignificant and didn't really care even when the race was over. The leaders were in an entirely different race as far as I was concerned. I'm sure they felt the same way about us hackers or whatever we were...
After a while I began to get tired. No pain to speak of, but I was breathing harder. Then came Newton and the three notorious hills which newspapers and veterans had warned me about. I got up the first two without killing myself and thought that everyone else must be a sissy...
Then a problem. I started getting a sharp pain in my left calf every few steps. At last, I thought, I'm doomed. But the pain was bearable. At about that time the first Harvard runner was crossing the finish line--John Heyburn, 101st...
Then I made the final turn. I could see the timers. The huge crowd saw the little runt trying to sprint, and they responded with applause which seemed ear shattering to me. And since there was no one near me, I relished the thought that they were making all that noise for me. Then the loudspeaker. "Now finishing is #527, Bennett H. Beach of Harvard." This unexpected bit of class really thrilled me, and my ego was going wild...
...permanently deserted my tray to investigate. I knew when I had finished that I had bettered three and a half hours, but the sheets the people were looking at told me even better news. My time of 3:23:50 had earned me 138th. I was astonished. I thought I had come in about 250th...