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I would like to share a little story with you:
about 5 years ago I decided to join a marathon training program in order to do my first marathon. eventhough my 5ks were relatively fast, I decided to choose the conservative way and train only to finish regardless of time; a decision that I'll be proud of for the rest of my life...
I entered the 1996 Disney Marathon and finished in time of 4 hours and 5 minutes. while I was pleased and getting the congrats from friends and coworkers ( my accomplishement was even mentionned at my company's news letter!). One of my coworkers who considered himself a serious runner( he've done only 5ks in mid 20 min) aproached me in sarcastic way:"why you telling everybody you ran a marathon? you didn't run a marathon,you walked a marathon!!!!". I did not answer him back, I just smiled and walked way...
The following year, I ran( or I guess walked) the same marathon in 3 hours and 12 min and almost made it to Boston after only a year of training!!
I did qualify for Boston in another race and ran up to date 12 marathons in 5 years...and till this day I still consider my self a "walker" like my friend put it 5 years ago..
My point is we all should enjoy the marathon endeavour and help each other and beleive it or not you might be running the same race one day...
Yes, none of us is an expert,but we should listen to each other including the beginners and if we disagree on technical stuff so be it, nobody ever said that the marathon is an exact science...
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