". . . to take part in a Marathon race is to risk serious and permanent injury to health, with immediate danger . . . exercise should always be purely subordinate to the business and pleasure of life."
- The New York Times, 1909
Isn't it great to live life on the edge!! I found this quote while flipping through this book I'm sort of reading called Boston - A Century Of Running.
I found the full text of this NY times quote, which, by the way, I use in my .sig file :)
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9E07EED81738E033A25757C2A9649C946897D6CF&oref=slogin
You will have to cut and paste the above in for it to work :(
Posted by: Doc Ott | March 25, 2008 at 09:48 PM