"When you cross the finish line, no matter how slow or fast, it will change your life forever"
"If you lose your time chip, you don't get a time. And that'll make my head explode"
"Train for 20 miles ... adrenaline will get you to 26.2 miles"
"Search for holy grail"
"People learn over training of marathon just as important as day of marathon"
"Runners need people to cheer ... the people help them get there"
"Some place in the marathon the distance is greater than the human ability to transcend it"
"Physical challenge and mental challenge - fighting through walls. Marathon teaches you to keep going"
"Metaphor for life - realize what able to do"
"Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that" (Kathrine Switzer)
"Training for marathon changed my life - outward appearance, strength, spirit, indescribable. I did it"
"People pushing to limit, testing physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually"
"Fantastic human accomplishment"
"I did something that most people feel they can't do"
"Being in yourself and being in spirit to get to finish line"
"Transformative experience attempting to do something as a big as a marathon"
"Setting a goal, being courageous and accomplishing it"
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A photo I took from the top of the John Hancock Building when I was in Chicago 2 years ago. Amazing city. I did walk near the lake.
Loved watching the video of the Chicago Marathon. Flat course, excellent number of spectators (1.5 million) -- the city is made for a marathon! Makes me want to run the Chicago Marathon (just glad I didn't in 2007 when there was a heat alert and the race was eventually cancelled). The have a green-yellow-red-black colour system now to alert runners of race conditions -- hopefully it is a 1-year thing as the weather is usually cool.
