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Article: Running the 2007 Boston Marathon was a wind-wind situation
- Article from:
- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- May 4, 2007
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 2007 Charleston Daily Mail. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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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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