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- Nov. 15, 1993: Died:Dr. George Sheehan
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Nov. 15, 1993 A Christian In Winter:Billy Graham
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 35
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- <p> DIED. Dr. George Sheehan, 74, physician, author, running enthusiast;
- from prostate cancer; in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. "In being
- a runner, in moving through pain and fatigue and suffering,
- in imposing stress, the runner is fulfilling himself and becoming
- the person he is." So wrote Sheehan, a relentless promoter of
- running not merely for its physical benefits but for its psychological
- and ostensible spiritual advantages as well. Perhaps more than
- anyone else, Sheehan was the inspiration for the vast increase
- in popularity running experienced in the 1970s and still enjoys
- today. An accomplished middle-distance runner in college, he
- abandoned the sport when he took up medicine, only to resume
- it in middle age with renewed enthusiasm. In 1969 he became
- the first man older than 50 to run the Boston Marathon in less
- than five hours. Sheehan ultimately ran his fastest marathon,
- clocking in at 3:01, at age 61. His seminal work was Running
- & Being: The Total Experience, published in 1978. Even while
- battling cancer, Sheehan continued to run, stopping hormone
- treatments at one point because they cut down his speed.
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