Classic Inspiration XXIII

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

Classic Inspiration XXII

Only when I face frustration and use it to fuel my dedication [do] I feel myself moving forward.

John Bingham

Week 8

Sunday February 22 through Saturday February 28

Sunday -- Club Challenge 10M (59:50)

Monday -- 40 minutes treadmill

Tuesday -- 60 minutes treadmill

Wednesday -- 60 minutes treadmill

Thursday -- 50 minutes treadmill

Friday -- 50 minutes treadmill

Saturday -- 18 miles (2:20:00)

RunD(F)MC

By now you know that April 20 I am running the 113th Boston Marathon for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in the twentieth Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge -- the DFMC. Our website is www.rundfmc.org.

But "RunDFMC" strikes me as perilously close to the famous Run-DMC (website: www.rundmc.com).

So before their lawyers shut us down, I think we should declare one of their ballads our theme song. (To get in their good graces.) Which one? Run's House. Feel me?

Whose house? RunDFMC's house!

NYC 2009

I just registered. You should, too. Apply here.

But first, Boston! See you April 20!

Classic Inspiration XXI

The easiest period in a crisis . . . is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision — whether to fight or run away. . . . Crisis can indeed be an agony. But it is the exquisite agony which a man might not want to experience again — yet would not for the world have missed.

Richard Nixon, Six Crises

Week 9

Sunday February 15 through Saturday February 21

Sunday -- 22 miles (2:50:00)

Monday -- 60 minutes treadmill

Tuesday -- 50 minutes treadmill

Wednesday -- 60 minutes treadmill

Thursday -- Rest

Friday -- 60 minutes treadmill

Saturday -- 19 miles (2:20:00)