Heartbreak Hill Broke My Heart*
* But DFMC cancer patient partners restored it.
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A special thanks to 1976 Boston Marathon winner Jack Fultz, more knowledgeable, giving, caring, supportive, and helpful as DFMC team coach than you would ever expect of a certified superstar. If you don’t know DFMC, you don’t know Jack.
UPDATE: I’m as surprised as you are to see me running and seemingly happy at mile 20:
Mile 20 (photo courtesy of Jim Rhoades at http://www.jimrhoades.com)
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Tony 8:23 pm on April 20, 2010 Permalink |
I’m not going to say a lot right now, Brian. I’ll let you continue to process. I’m hopeful that, when you consider the totality of everything that comprised your 2010 Boston experience (the people you met, the people you helped through your fundraising, the people you touched through this blog, etc.) you’ll see it in an increasingly favorable light.
I’ll leave you with this quote from Ben Jonson: “He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.”
Tony
Neal 12:28 pm on April 22, 2010 Permalink |
I certainly understand the disappointment of not getting your A goal, which is why I always try and have a B goal and C goal. I think you should be proud to come within 2 minutes of your PR in your first Boston. Yes, you had a great 1st half, which means you feel like you had your A goal within your grasp, but its a really hard course to get right for the whole thing, even if you have run it in many times in training. And sometime the day is just not meant to be. I am glad that you have had such a positive overall experience with running for Dana-Farber, in the long run that will stay with you while your disappointment will fade. I kind of separate my Boston’s from my other marathons due to the challenges of the day, and doing it for Dana-Farber takes your focus away from your race, appropriately so, of course.
So I hope the disappointment fades in tune with the fading of your aches and pains. I know you will get your 3:40 and better on a different course, but there is plenty of time to figure out what’s next. And when you do decide to go for Boston again, whenever that is, your experience will only help you.
So all I can say is Congratulations, you did great and will do greater in the future.
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