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| Heather Duley |
When I was in high school, my family went skiing in Colorado. At the top of the snow covered mountains, the view was breathtaking! We took rolls and rolls of film (this was so long ago, cameras had film!) so we could share the experience with friends. When we got home and got our pictures developed, the pictures were pretty, but it was sort of a letdown... Our pictures did not come close to conveying the beauty and magnitude of the mountains. In many ways, the Boston Marathon is like those mountain top pictures: one of those experiences hard to adequately convey. But I will try!
First, I want to give you some facts I think help explain why Boston is such a big deal to runners. Most of the following bullet points are taken from Bill Rogers's book,
Marathon Man. We actually got to hear him speak about some of his Boston experiences the night before the marathon!
