Getting Faster

. . . on the water. This article is for you, Coach!

Anne Elliot on the Boston Marathon

The last few hours were certainly very painful . . . but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a [race] the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering -- which was by no means the case at [Boston]. We were only in anxiety and distress during the last two hours, and, previously, there had been a great deal of enjoyment. So much novelty and beauty! I have [run] so little, that every fresh [race] would be interesting to me -- but there is real beauty at [Boston]: and in short . . . altogether my impressions of the [race] are very agreeable.

Jane Austen, Persuasion

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday TRP

I promise I will never lose another bet involving one of your masterworks.

Elizabeth Bennet, or yours truly?

You mean to frighten me . . . ? I will not be alarmed . . . . There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice

134th Running

For those who love racing.