LA Marathon 2011 March 20th 2011 It Never Rains in California...
I registered to run this marathon with an 8 mile training run as my base. Not my brightest hour, but friends from out-of-state and out-of-country were flying in to run it so I caved-in to peer pressure and registered sometime in late February. With only three weeks to prepare, I didn't.
Friends from Australia were flying through LA on their ... read more
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"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fa... full info