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Two weeks out from the February 14, 1981 race, Kasbohm wanted to make sure he was ready to run a good marathon at Kona. “I’d never raced a real marathon before, so I wanted to see how ready I was,” he said. He carefully measured out a roughly square 2-mile course on the streets of Bloomington near Normandale – and ran it 13 times. “I just went and ran and when I got done and went home, it was 2:30. I figured it took me about minute to come back home. So OK, I ran 2:29.”