The Washington Post, November 1st, 1992
I was pleased to read in the paper the next day who had won last Sunday's Marine Corps Marathon: mostly Mexican sailors, who, it seems, train on government time. A reproof to a race billed as "the people's marathon," meaning no big names are paid to class it up? I say hooray to the winners. To those of us unpaid people at the race's long tail, which, like that of some mythological beast, relentlessly lengthened as the day wore on, it could scarcely matter who was at the head. We of the legion who prefer to say we finished in "about five hours" - time enough for the speedsters to circle the cou...
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