At Dutch National Pastime’s Top Event, Mother Nature Wields the Starting Gun
LEEUWARDEN — This is the town from which, when it is run, a grueling 125-mile race takes off across frozen canals and ice-locked lakes and under quaint bridges and past trim brick villages. When there is ice, that is.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/26/world/europe/26skating.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin
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