The First Marathon
After one minute of running for the bus, Hamid is out of breath, so his daughter has a big idea: the city marathon in October.
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Hamid was forty-five, and he never did any . One cold morning in January, he ran for the bus and missed it. After only one minute of running, he was .
That evening, he told his daughter, Shirin, about the bus. She laughed. "Dad, you need to ," she said. "There's a in our city in October. Why don't you run it?"
"A marathon is forty-two kilometers!" said Hamid. But the next morning, he put on his old running shoes. "OK," he told Shirin. "I'm going to do it."
The first weeks were hard. On his first run, Hamid stopped after ten minutes. He felt older and slower than everybody in the park. But he went running again the next day, and the day after that.
Slowly, it got easier. In March, he could run five kilometers. By August, he could run thirty. He felt stronger and happier than before, and he slept better too.
On the day of the , it was cold and rainy, and Hamid was . The first twenty kilometers went well. But after thirty kilometers, his legs felt , and every step was harder than the last.
Then he saw Shirin at the side of the road. She was holding a big . It said, "Go, Dad! You're faster than the bus now!" Hamid laughed, and his legs felt .
He finished in five hours and twelve minutes, much slower than the winner. But Hamid . "So, what are you going to do next?" asked Shirin. "Next year, I'm going to run it again," he said. "And you're going to run with me!"
Vocabulario clave
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- exercisenoun
ejercicio físico
- out of breathphrase
sin aliento tras correr o hacer esfuerzo
- get fitphrase
ponerse en forma
- marathonnoun
carrera de unos 42 kilómetros
- racenoun
competición para ver quién llega más rápido
- nervousadjective
algo preocupado antes de un acontecimiento importante
- heavieradjective
de mayor peso; aquí, con las piernas más difíciles de mover
- signnoun
cartel
- suddenlyadverb
de forma repentina e inesperada
- lighteradjective
de menor peso; aquí, con las piernas más fáciles de mover
- didn't carephrase
no le importaba
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