Inside the New York City Marathon

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The basic question was: “At 50, can you finish a marathon, in this case the one in New York, when you have a full life and barely six months of training?” The answer is yes. But among his allies, we must count suffering. The race story of our journalist-guinea pig.

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Nothing matters anymore. Neither what time it is, nor the hours traveled, nor the night, nor the cold. Even less the pain. My legs no longer have any flexibility, they are atrophied. It has been a long time since the movement of the knee has no amplitude. Neither does the ankle sway. If the torso goes too far forward or too far back, it is the lumbar …

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