On her Tuesday MSNBC show, Rachel Maddow discussed that the country is still waiting for answers about the Boston bombings. But in "the immediate sens...
I was overcome by an incredible wave of guilt: for finishing before the blast when others weren't so fortunate; for abandoning a city that I love dearly just hours after it was brought to its knees. When I got back to Manhattan, I didn't feel happy or even relieved. I felt like a foreigner.
How can words possibly describe how fantastic, how beautiful, and how majestic the marathon is? I don't think they can. However, I would like to share a few lessons that I learned while becoming a marathoner. They say that the marathon is a metaphor for life, and I couldn't agree more.
In just hours, social media had made it possible for us to attract interested people, share logistical details, determine their participation and what they could bring, and let them download the precise routes that they would run.
All soon-to-be, first-time NYC Marathoners, like me, know that the training is complete (through heat, rain, an earthquake, and a hurricane), so now it's time to get ourselves excited for the race and as prepared as possible.
Grete, in her own quiet and unassuming way, grabbed the hearts of marathon fans and inspired so many people all over the world with her will to win and her down-to-earth style.
The work-out is an intense combination of squats, lunges, push ups, crab walks, and spiders, either using your own body as resistance or with medicine balls, straps, and physioballs.
