Article: Running the 2007 Boston Marathon was a wind-wind situation

As I neared my dream of running the Boston Marathon, I knew there were booby traps that could keep me from crossing the finish line. Cramps, dehydration, a stress fracture, a bad cold . . . any number of ugly possibilities could halt me before I even started or during the 26.2-mile journey from Hopkinton to Boston. At 5:30 a.m. April 16, my friend and training partner, Glenn Baldwin of South Charleston, and I looked outside our Boston hotel. We saw something much more menacing. Sheets of rain and wind were whipping through the streets in a scene that looked like hurricane footage on The Weather Channel. A noreaster had its sights on Boston, and the forecast wasnt pretty up to 5 inches of ...

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