Marathon

The New York Marathon is being held today. For some reason marathon footage on television always makes me thing of one of my favourite books of all time, The Long Walk, by Stephen King. "In the near future, a young boy has been one of 100 selected to take the Long Walk--a deadly contest of endurance and determination, in which each step can literally be your last. Follow the contestants' tortured footsteps as they struggle with each other, and themselves, to survive the race."