marathon
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The 2011 Chicago Marathon (brief) race report
It took me 5 hours 33 minutes and 40 seconds to run the Bank of America Chicago Marathon. Upon crossing the finish line I realized it was the most pointless thing I’ve worked so hard to accomplish. I don’t think my heart was in the right place when I started training for the marathon. At…
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The Big Dance Awaits.
Brook’s booth at the Marathon Expo Legend has it that in 450 B.C., Pheidippides ran from the battle in Marathon to Athens, 26 miles away, to deliver the news of victory against the Persians. Tomorrow, 46,000 runners will try to emulate the great Pheidippides for no apparent reason except to say they can too, battle or…
