The final turn of the Boston Marathon takes runners onto the straightaway of Boylston Street. It’s wide and raucous, a joyous open-air tunnel of humanity a few hundred yards from a finish line now forever changed. It’s the final iconic segment of a marathon that, while not the most difficult nor the most scenic, remains [...]
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(This article was originally published in the October 2002 issue of Runner’s World Magazine.) Daily summer life begins early in Las Vegas. Just after dawn, construction workers fill industrial size jugs at convenience store water vending machines, and sprinkler systems gushing like high-pressure fire hoses flood city parks. Shadows quickly move across the backdrop of [...]
Finnish Four-Time Gold Medalist Lasse Viren: Still Prideful (And Running) After All These Years
More than 30 years after he won the first of his four Olympic gold medals, Lasse Viren remains an integral part of Finnish lore. One of his native country’s 200 members of parliament, Viren, 57, lives with his wife and two of his three sons in Myrskala, a country city with a population of 2,000 [...]
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