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A Legend's Last TrialsPublished by Runner's World on June 29, 2016 I’m finishing a prerace stride when Frank Gagliano calls my name. He’s walking across the infield at the Princeton University track. “I’ll come to you,” he says, in a voice that was put on this earth to say “fuggeddaboutit.” I shake my legs nervously and wait on the track where the final turn meets the straightaway. Gags approaches, slowly. He’s 79 years old, with the body of a former professional football player. Three days earlier, I had given up. With 250 meters to go in an 800-meter race, as I was attempting to qualify for 2016 Olympic Trials, I had jogged across the finish line in a time 8 seconds slower than the qualifying mark. I cooled down by myself after the race and thought about officially calling it quits. “Maybe this is it for me,” I told my girlfriend. At 30, I had already run at the 2012 Olympic Trials, and now I was running 10 seconds slower than my bests in race after race. Read the full article at: www.runnersworld.com
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