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Armstrong Gets a Taste of Running Endurance: Thrills the NYC Crowd
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by clorenz1 | November 6, 2006 at 09:14 am
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I think I bit off more than I could chew, I thought the marathon would be easier," he said. "(My shins) started to hurt in the second half, especially the right one. I could barely walk up here, because the calves are completely knotted up."He called the race "the hardest physical thing I have ever done" -- even more grueling than his worst days on the Tour.
"I never felt a point where I hit the wall, it was really a gradual progression of fatigue and soreness."
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