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new york city marathon | new york city marathon

kelly-tweeddale's picture
Oct.30.2012
I’ve spent the last eight months training for the New York City Marathon, known as the largest marathon in the world.  I ran a personal best to qualify and no matter how many things went wrong between then and now, I had one constant: my training.  I ran through pain, I ran through...
hally-mcgehean's picture
Jan.13.2009
Six years ago today my father dropped dead of a heart attack while running on the treadmill at the gym. He was 59. He had run his whole life, or at least from the time, at age 7, he ran away from the Catholic orphanage in which he'd been deposited by his widowed mother who could not afford to care...