Running Forever

By RKB on September 1, 2010 9:28 PM | No Comments

Love this quote on running, as well as the longer article that it came from.

I was running from where I had been, where I was, and where I was headed.

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I wrote in one of those first columns that my running shoes had become giant erasers on my feet. Each foot strike wiped away the memory of some earlier indiscretion or failure. Each new pair of running shoes carried the potential of unlocking some secret place. Each pair of worn-out running shoes carried with them the scars of a healing soul.

http://running.competitor.com/2004/07/training/running-forever_3287

The last sentence really holds true for me this spring and summer (and now, quietly, entering the fall): "I've learned that a runner is everything I hope to be."

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After running two marathons in October 2010 with Team in Training, I've decided to "slack off" with just the one marathon in 2011.

This year will be in memory of Siona Shah, an amazing young girl who spent the final third of her too-short life battling leukemia with courage, grace, humility, and smiles.

It will also be in memory of my step-grandmother, Ruth, who passed away on June 15th after a recurrence of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.

I'd originally started using this site to tell my story -- roughly eight months of treatment in 1990, as well as the impact leukemia had on me in the years that followed. Much of that story is still available through the "Table of Contents" below (starting with my initial diagnosis while I was studying in England).

- Robert K. Brown

Running Forever

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