<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (lukewarmplay)</div><div class='quotemain'></p>
Marathons, you say.</p>
Hopefully not Chicago.</p>
They don't like runners.</p>
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I went last year, though.</p>
To watch my cousin run there.</p>
Post-race, quite brain dead.</p>
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Marathons are not</p>
events to check off a "list."</p>
That's how you get hurt.</p>
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People must train more!</p>
It's hard work, and not a game.</p>
Get what you deserve.</p>
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Chicago's easy.</p>
The course runs mostly downhill.</p>
Records are set there.</p>
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Now that I'm older</p>
I must train more carefully</p>
or I'll get injured.</p>
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I ran in New York</p>
Philly, DC, and Dublin</p>
Most were cold, rainy.</p>
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My running coach said</p>
"adverse conditions make you</p>
a better runner."</p>
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Even if that's true</p>
Dublin really, really sucked</p>
won't do it again.</p>