I have a subscription to Runner's World magazine. Usually, the magazine is full of articles about how to run faster, begin training, recover from injury, or about the lives of both famous and unknown runners around the world. This time, it is all about the bombings at the Boston Marathon.
If you have the ability, pick up a copy of Runner's World this month. It talks about what happened from the perspectives of those who where in the audience and in the race. It celebrates the fans who came to watch and the ordinary citizens who became extraordinary heroes. It talks about life after trauma and tragedy.
In reading the articles, I have felt sorrow, anger, resentment, resolution, but most of all I have been inspired. Inspired to run. Very few of the athletes were injured, it was their fans who paid the price. The mothers and boyfriends and sisters and children of the runners. Most of them with legs or feet blown off. A few of them even died.
Ladies, those fans suffered in support of YOU. It may not have been you they were waiting for at the finish line, but they were cheering on those who accomplished a goal through running. Run for virtue, run in their honor, run for the ones who have supported you through the various trials of your life, but most of all...just run!
Happy Trails!
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