But days later, he reversed himself and agreed to the bailout after marathon negotiations with his European counterparts.
Several years later, the marathon team took it over.
A few hours later, the marathon's staff and volunteers were handing people their bags.
He even entered - and won - an East Coast marathon later that year.
When the last signature was signed 45 minutes later, my chairing marathon was finally at an end.
Women tend to run the marathon later in their careers, when they face decisions about motherhood, which inevitably disrupts training and can lead to protracted comebacks.
Three hours later after a marathon beachcombing session where we find crabs, mudskippers, baby lobsters, a baby eel and rock pools we head "home".
Six years later, with the marathon gaining in popularity, a civil servant named George Spitz suggested to Lebow that New York create a new kind of marathon to honor the nation's bicentennial.
Two years later, the cancer returned, and on Oct. 9, 1994, Fred Lebow died at 62. Four weeks later, his beloved marathon was turned into a moving tribute to the man who had given New York City and running its finest day.
More than a century later, the Athens marathon, in its 28th year, is still a mere footnote in the international calendar, a race that carries more sentimental and historical value than competitive weight.
In the past, there was a pretty well-established "pipeline" that led a great runner on to the track for a few years before he turned to the marathon later.
