Boston ¨C The day before the Boston Marathon, two marathon giants met off Boylston Street.
Joan Benoit Samuelson, a two-time winner of the Boston Marathon and the first Olympic women¡¯s marathon champion, introduced herself to Mariko Yugeta, the first woman older than 60 to run a marathon in under three hours.
¡°I¡¯m super nervous about meeting her; I¡¯ve been thinking a lot about the questions I want to ask her,¡± Yugeta, 63, said before the meeting Sunday. ¡°She¡¯s run at a high level for a long time. What kind of things does she do to keep running now?¡±
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