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Weekly Contest #276
Once upon a time, when I was in my early 40s, after watching the running of the New York Marathon on television and witnessing the agony and ecstasy of those crossing the finish line, I was so moved that I promised myself I would run this fantastic thing someday before I was 60 years old. Years went by until one day in mid-December of 1999 when I was 58 years old, I realized that since I would be 59 the following October, if I was going to keep that promise to myself, I had to run the New York 2000 Marathon. I felt then that this ...
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