For more than a week they felt pretty miserable, as though they might never be able to run like they once did.
For some, it lasted longer than three weeks. That made for one of the stranger buildups to this weekend’s New York City Marathon, a wicked balancing act between recovery and training, between rest and preparation, between the singular focus that one of the hardest tests in athletics requires and the mental downtime that has to follow it or else it will drive even the best runners in the world completely mad.
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That’s what the last 10 or 12 weeks have been like for the handful of runners trying the
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