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From the Archives | April 17, 1979

The pain at Heartbreak Hill

By Steve Marantz

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 17, 1979

Because the last of the Newton Hills is at about a 20-mile mark, noted as a psychological barrier for the mind and the body, the runners are seen in various stages of horror and desperation.

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