4:09:43, a time as good as the
first classified. After those four hours are a daily sacrifice, a constant
effort ... with calm, with head and especially an incredible courage. The
courage to stand up one day and say: "I will run a marathon." The
courage of getting up every morning one hour earlier. The bravery to hear from
all voices, the one which speaks weaker, the one that says: "You can".
Something happened, preventing
them from crossing the finish line just 10 steps from his deserved challenge
... An explosion that leaves many injured athletes and cause three deaths
This terrible tragedy is so
desperate for us. It appears a lot of questions, the questions that we avoid every
day. Why? What are they doing wrong? Why is there so much hatred?
I don’t know. I have no idea.
I’m not writing to give the solution, I wish I could. I want to support
those runners who were there, fighting for a dream. Those who have overcame
through thousands of small struggles to get to that point. Probably many of
them will decide to throw away the trainers, will have phobia to compete any
competition. They won’t hear from sports challenges. What lived, what they saw
and what they felt are important reasons for quitting.
Many will fall; hit by the
discouragement of seeing this situation ... don’t do it. Run! Today, tomorrow
and the rest of your lives, run. Running more than ever, if you were doing 10
miles every day, now do 15. Show them! You are not going to quit.
Whatever the purpose of the
twisted mind that placed the explosives, he has failed. All he has done is that
we are going to get up from the couch. Go out into the street to run, offering
kilometers for a cause. Because we want to prove something ... We are not
afraid. WE ARE NOT GOING TO STOP.



Thanks for writing this Black Iron Shield! I feel you have honored those who were at the Boston Marathon...and yourself! You are right, that we cannot give into fear but must continue our lives with courage.
ReplyDeleteI love the solidarity of many runners who got out and ran in the names of those who can't right now.