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Chicken Soup for the Soul:

This Is How We Practice Not Quitting

From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad

By Karyn

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired

of doing the hard work you already did.

~Newt Gingrich

I'll never forget the day my then fifty-something professional sports

executive dad became a marathon runner. After he finished his first race,

the Disney Marathon in January of 1995, I watched him walk through our front

door limping, battered, and bruised. He looked like he had been in

hand-to-hand combat and was dragging home from the war. I remember wondering

what in the world was fun about that. But a few years later when I watched

him cross the finish line at the 1997 Chicago Marathon, I caught the bug.

Whatever it was that made him want to do this, the satisfaction I saw on his

face told me I wanted it too. So I started training for my first marathon.

To date, I've run in nine of these epic events, seven of them right

alongside my dad.

The first time we did the Boston Marathon together, I had trained hard for

months, and Dad and I were both pumped. The first half of the race flew by,

and I was on fire. I had energy like a madwoman, but Dad was struggling...

so I did my best to keep him going. Kind of like Frodo and Sam, you know?

Though the plan had been to stay together, Dad kept saying, " Go! Get a

better time if you can... go ahead! " I debated it, but decided to stay with

him. After mile thirteen, we stopped for a bathroom break -- and that's when

I cramped up really bad. Dad came to life after that, so for the second half

of the race, he had to " carry " me! Miles thirteen through twenty-six were

brutal, and sometime during mile twenty-one, as we were making our trek up

the aptly-named " Heartbreak Hill, " in agony and almost in tears, I looked up

at Dad and cried, " Why in the world are we doing this? "

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