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Chilean miner prepares for NYC Marathon
Less than month after rescue, Pena scopes out route he will run
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Rescued Chilean miner Edison Pena visits the Empire State Building observation deck on Friday in New York. - photo by Associated Press
NEW YORK - Going from a half-mile underground to 1,050 feet above it, Chilean miner Edison Pena visited the Empire State Building on Friday and scoped out the route he will run in the New York City Marathon. Hunched over against the cold on the 86th floor of New York's tallest building, Pena peered through binoculars at Central Park, site of the marathon's finish line Sunday. "Very pretty," he said in Spanish.
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