The Pandemic Marathon

Published: Sept. 8, 2020, 3:48 p.m.

b'This week, I, like about 20,000 others, will attempt to complete the virtual Boston Marathon.\\xa0 I had signed up again with the Dana Farber Marathon Challenge team to run it in April, after a rather ragged performance in 2019.\\xa0 But then the race, like so much this year, first got postponed and then went virtual.\\xa0 And so, next Saturday morning, I will nervously walk out my front door, turn left and jog off, on my own, into the dawn\\u2019s early light.'