Comments on: A Message to My Fellow Endurance Sports Junkies

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:21:53 +0000

Hi Brian,

Thanks and yes, by all means feel free to share as you see fit.

Happy Holidays

Steve

By: Brian Zobel

Brian Zobel — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:25:32 +0000

So true Steve, so true!
Great post would you mind if I share it (and a link back to you) on my multisport site “Victory Is Finishing”.
http://victoryisfinishing.blogspot.com/

Found your site thru Paul Goldstone and our work to fight MS.
Go Team in Training!

Happy Holidays to you and your family,
Brian

By: Tiffany Kidd

Tiffany Kidd — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 15:25:15 +0000

Stephen! Well said……truly we all have a lot to be thankful for and sometimes we need to extend that thankfulness to others. I think that it is a brilliant idea to focus endurance sports on a cause!!!!

Share your strength with others and Happy Holidays to all!!!

By: Lisa Katharina

Lisa Katharina — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:55:24 +0000

Stephen,

Thanks for the reminders to be grateful for the many gifts that come with planning upcoming events for 2011.Racing for the benefit of helping others is one way to make a difference in the world and to give hope to many others. And sometimes – as you know – it is much more personal.

Currently I am taking care of my father who is battling pancreatic cancer. Outside of looking forward to a good meal, lately my Dad’s impetus for getting out of bed and fighting this disease is the hope that one day a week he will have enough strength to do the one thing he loves the most: swing his golf club.

Being a strong, aggressive athlete his whole life has made being weak with cancer and chemotherapy huge physical and mental adjustment for my father. Every day I watch him struggle to muster up the strength to walk, to get out of a chair, and on a very good, rare day engage his fighting spirit at the golf club.

Watching him fight, gives me ample reason to be deeply grateful for being able to train and race, and for taking the plunge by signing up for my first half marathon. My Dad is now promising to be alive and cheering for me at the finish line on January 30th.

Come race day, I will find myself in the very fortunate of position of writing the words, “Racing for my Daddy” on my arms. Sometimes the best reason to race is for the ones you love the most.

Thanks Stephen.