My Road to Boston 2007

Inspiration

Many apologies for my absence. Friends were staying at the house and there was preparation to do before they arrived and much fun to be had once they were here.

I was sick last week and stuck in the house with a book: "Ultramarathon Man" by Dean Karnazes. He is a crazy runner and I am not sure that I even aspire to do what he does running all night, hundreds of miles at a time. However, his story is inspirational and he referenced a wonderful quotation from Theodore Roosevelt:

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, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory or defeat.

Not one that I immediately memorized and can whisper under my breath, but I think it says it all.

posted by Chris + Tina @ 3:02 PM