marathoning


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mar·a·thon·er

(măr′ə-thŏn′ər)
n.
One that participates in a marathon, especially a marathon runner.
mar′a·thon′ing n.
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marathoning

(ˈmærəθənɪŋ)
n
the sport of running marathons
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She was a regular She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, and I want to tell you it chilled me to the marrow, sent those little thrills Marathoning up and down my spinal column, meeting a white woman out there at the head of a tribe of savages a thousand miles the other side of No Man's Land.
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"The number of people who have registered at such an early date continues to illustrate the growing popularity of marathoning and is a compliment to the quality of our event," Choate said in early January, adding that the surge in entries "reinforces our belief our race competes on a world stage with races much older and larger than ours."
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It was another women's foray into marathoning that had an even larger impact on women's participation.
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(Adapted from Advanced Marathoning by Pete Pfitzinger and Scott Douglas, 2001, Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL, 18ドル.95, 237 pp.)
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