A marathon is a race, yes. But it’s not as much against one another as much as it’s against oneself. That is one reason why people turn up in the droves to see what their own limits are.
And whatever those limits are, every race is an opportunity to break it and set a new one.
Nancy Gibbs said it well. “ Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That’s one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.” It was a splendid setting today at the finish line of the TCS Amsterdam Marathon. As runners ran in after completing their courses, there was a cheer in the stadium to let them know whatever their result was, it was worth it!

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