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Muhammad ran cross-country in college before stopping completely to take up baseball.

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And so he found himself edging back into creature skates running, entering shorter races, 5 and 10 kilometers.

He joined a program to learn how to run longer distances, a process that involved gradually increasing the length of his runs and focusing only on distance, not speed. Still, it seems, too few amateur athletes take it seriously and fewer still do it right. He went from being a middle-of-the-pack runner to someone who either wins or finishes high in the final standing. Six years later, in 1999, he decided, almost as a lark, to run the Boston Marathon. He finished the marathon in a little over four hours, not especially fast for a man of 24, but he did meet his goal.

planescape: AbnerWoods (last edited 2012-01-24 04:00:06 by AbnerWoods)