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Archive Home > 2007 > June > 04 > The Great Wall of pain

The Great Wall of pain

Rod Hanson of Bend racewalks China's Great Wall Marathon

By Mark Morical / The Bulletin
June 4, 2007

Racers were reduced to crawling on their hands and knees, some screaming in agony, some vomiting, as they made their way virtually straight up a remote, vertical section of the Great Wall of China.

Rod Hanson was wondering what he had gotten himself into - but he continued crawling up the....

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