Blog archives for September, 2002

On this anniversary of 9/11, I run to remember all that has gone on. Running has been a part of my life during the last year and is intertwined with my thoughts about 9/11. It was about 11 months ago when I posted one of my first blog entry about the Flag Run Across America, in which I ran a 10 mile stretch. I also wrote this article 3 months later which talked about how running helped me cope with my feelings and emotions connected with 9/11.

Throughout year, there have been much change and much constancy, much pain and much joy, much death and much life. In that year I ran a marathon and went 3 months without running, dealt with friends out of work and celebrated my 20th anniversary with my lovely wife, saw my daughter bloom into a young lady stretching her wings and watched famine and warfare on the evening news. Nothing is simple. Nothing is black or white. Nobody is unbiased. Nobody is blameless.

Today I run to feel pain and I run to feel joy. I run to wear myself out and I run to pump myself up. I run to lose myself and I run to find myself. I run to remember.