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Distance Runner to Address Greater Long Island Running Club

Group holds meeting at Plainview-Old Bethpage Library

A distance runner who finished the Boston Marathon just before the terror attack in APril will be the featured speaker at Tuesday night's meeting of the Greater Long Island Running Club.

Sal Nastasi will highlight the general meeting at the Plainview-Old Bethpage Library at 8 p.m.

Nastasi is an experienced distance runner who told an interviewer he had finished the race and was waiting for a friend at the 24 mile mark when the bombs blew, killing three people.

He has also entered and won several local races.

 THe Plainview-based Greater Long Island Running Club is the largest running club on the island.


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