Its been a couple of days since the awful scenes in Boston. I immediately found out that my cousin and her friends who live in Boston are all safe- they were planning on going to the finish, but were too lazy and hadn't gotten around to it yet. Thank goodness for laziness!
There are many reasons why I run, and why I admire runners. I think some of the courageous stories that have been told about the reactions of runners immediately after the explosions tells you something about our character. If you think back six months to NYC marathon, and how runners ran to Staten Island or NJ to help people who had lost their homes you can see it again. And we will see a great festival of it when we watch the London Marathon this Sunday. Almost 40,000 runners, raising around £50million for charities- the single largest fundraising event in the world.
We run because we care - about our own health, about our charity, about the earth
We run because we can - why not use our bodies to see the world rather than sit around doing nothing
We run because we're disciplined - whether you run a marathon in 2hours 4mins or 5 hours 50, you have dedicated yourself to a training programme which means getting out the door sometimes when you don't feel like it.
I do almost all my running alone. The only exception is the races. What has been quite remarkable in these last days is the strong sense of community amongst us runners. Wearing race T-shirts yesterday, both VLM and my local Parkrun are hosting a moment's silence before the race starts this weekend. running clubs in BOSTON- we will not be discouraged - going on to do their regular routes to show solidarity.
We run because we are part of a community that cannot be destroyed because its global and because our power, positivity and strength is bigger than anyone trying to break it!
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