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WHY WE COMPETE | IN THEIR WORDS

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Sunday, April 29, 2007

"In 1998, I was overweight and I was seeing this woman,

and I mused aloud that someday I was going to run a marathon.

She burst out laughing. I dumped her, and I ran my first marathon about four months later. Now I just want to see how much more

I can do. How much more wrong can I prove her?"

Keith Dunn, Arlington

"There's just something about having a chance to do something

that almost nobody else has done. The fact that it's so impossible makes you wonder why nobody can do it. I mean, only a few

people in the world have finished this. How many things can

you say that about?"

Ed Furtaw, Pagosa Springs, Colo.


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