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Je me suis donc mis à courir, une année, progressivement, soufflant et haletant au début. Il fallait que je me renforce, tant au niveau des jambes que des poumons. C’était douloureux, mais je courais, toujours un peu plus, et puis j’ai fini par participer à une course de cinq kilomètres, puis huit, et jusqu’à 16 un jour.
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My birthday is April 19, which here in Boston is Patriot’s Day, when Paul Revere rode to warn that the British were coming. The Boston Marathon is run on Patriot’s Day. We lived outside of Boston, just a block from the famous “Hills of Newton” that seemed to make or break runners in the race. I always dreamed of running that Marathon, on my Birthday. And so, gradually one year, I began to run a little bit, then a little bit more, huffing and puffing, then some more. I had to strengthen myself, both for my legs and for my lungs. It hurt, but little by little, I got to run further, and eventually I ran a 3 mile race, then a 5 mile race, then a 10 mile race. Then I began thinking, hey, maybe I can do this and really run the Boston Marathon. And eventually, in 1982, I did run it and I finished, and then I ran it three more times. I’d run with an inhaler tucked in the waistband of my running shorts, just in case, but I hardly ever used it.
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