A vanishingly small number of you gentle readers will remember that I wrote a very short story, At Seventeen, to describe the emotional and physical experience of passing that mile marker in a first marathon, then pushing through to the finish line. The story is built rhythmically around the song by the same name by Janis Ian http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efHOIT1ROk8, to which I hope you will listen and appreciate why I am so smug about writing things that have meaning at more than one level.
Hi Bob,
I do remember your article well. I crashed out at mile 15
Suresh
Now, I’m committed to finding and posting the original.
Bob, where can I read that article?
I’ll look for it and post it. I think I first published the story on our web site in 2003.