"I have been running almost every morning for more than 30 years. I run for a variety of reasons, incluiding physical health, solitude, enjoyment of the outdoors, fresh air, freedom, escape from crowds, communion with nature, a sustained period of uninterupted thought, an opportnunity to see the countryside slow and close enough to smell it, and for sheer sensual exhiliation.
Running competitively eliminates at least a third of those resons and participating in Sundays' LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon with 40,000 other people in a concret metropolis would cancel all but the first.
Human beings are not meant to run 26 miles. Look what happened to the first one, Phidippides who ran the 26 miles from Maraton to Athens to anounce the Greek victory and then died on the spot."
David Mc Grath, born in Chicago, has jogged more than 30,000 in his lifetime, but never more than 6 at a time.
-Chicago Tribune, october 7, 2005.
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