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Bruce
Maybe we will have a race report from you in years to come.
cheers Plu
cheers PLu
Go straight to the writer's podium and adopt the middle position. Cheers, and many thanks.
This is beautifully written. You have captured the spirit of the race and the reason "why" we do it. Look forward to reading your other posts.
Back to the Eighties
Fun run - inst that an oxymoron?
Theres a classic line in Back to the future 3, and the doc is explaining to the cowboys that people run and walk for fun?
The old cowboy says : "Fun??? What the hell kinda fun is that?"
- Jarrah
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Like you i sit here and say why.....why why!!!
This post is the perfect explanation, he isn't an orbler but her had forwarded this post to me pre work this morning with the totle..This is why...
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Louie
Well writtten indeed. Somehow you captured the type of emotionfelt by runners at the end of events.
Harro
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Michaelie
Thanks a lot for being there fort he penny to drop. For years I have come home from this or that race with a medal round my neck (usually a "thanks for coming" medal, but still) and my wife says "that's nice dear" like Sybil in Fawlty Towers, while looking at me like I was a cat presenting her with a dead mouse. At last someone has realised what it is that we're saying. "Look at what I did for you - I killed the six foot track".
Thanks fro reaching me, and my wife too.
It's taken me a while too to understand my husband's obsession, and to begin to share his passion for the very thing I do believe makes him feel alive and happy to be alive. I think it's those freaky little pre-race rituals, definitely the Vaseline (uggh) and the early morning disappearance of our partners that alienates so many of us. An obsession is hard to understand if it is not shared. But the joy at the end of the Six Foot spilled over for all to share. Any woman who has been through childbirth can understand the relief and sense of achievement at the end of a very long day of giving something all you've got.
Jo
As someone with child-bearing hips, boobs and thighs I could never understand anyone loving sport of any sort...especially running! Running was what the teachers made us do at school when they wanted to b*tch about us without us overhearing. Running hurt.
Somehow I ended up taking up running as an adult. How? I still don't know. Devine intervention I suspect. As someone with aforementioned physical attributes who also runs (albeit slowly) I've wanted to run this event for 3 years.
I loved reading your post. It summed up perfectly why I want so much to run The Six Foot Track Marathon. Thank you.
My partner has been involved in runs like this for many years, but I've never got to go along. Wasn't invited, with the very best of intentions she figured I wasn't interested and made her arrangements to go to nice places to run with her friends without me. If there was a run she wanted to do, she never missed out. Alienation is a very good choice of word indeed. Now I've started doing a bit of running, but it's hard - anyone would think that it would be great to share her passion and have something in common, but I can honestly take or leave going running with her; if I ever did a run like this one, I'd almost rather just go on my own. There is such a distance between us when it comes to running, and that saddens me a lot.
But, I'm working hard to deal with the distance between us over running, therapy is good, and who knows, maybe in a few years we'll be just like these guys -
"husband and wife teams hold hands as they came in" I can only hope so.
It almost makes me want to miss running the race and be a spectator myself.