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  “It was fantastic,” he recalls. “I’d never seen anything like it. Ten thousand people running through the city, what a great idea. The biggest event in England at the time was the National Cross Country Championship with 1,300 runners. When we got to the finish line, I said to Dave: 'You know, we should do something like this back home.’ ”