See Mike Run: Seppo Osala collapses on course.

Way to go Sandra. Your quick thinking saved Seppo.

It's a good day to be alive, right Seppo?

Mike

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On The Bedside Table

Once A Runner by John L. Parker
Advance Marathoning by Pete Pfitzinger & Scott Douglas
Born To Run by Christopher McDougall
Lore of Running by Tim Noakes
Run by Ann Patchett
The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running; A Memoir by Haruki Murakami
26.2 Marathon Stories by Katherine Switzer & Roger Robinson
Food Guide For Marathoners by Nancy Clark
Running Well by Sam Murphy & Sarah Connors
On Running by John Stanton
Why We Run; A Natural History by Bernd Heinrich

i race

Hypothermic Half 2-26-12
Niverville Half 09/24/11
Bismarck Full 09/17/11
Treherne Half 09/11/11
MB Half Marathon 06-19-11
Cops For Cancer Half 05-01-11
Hypothermic Half 02-27-11
Chicago Marathon 10-10-10
MB Marathon 06-20-10
Air Force Half 05-30-10
Cops For Cancer Half 05-02-10
Hypothermic Half, 02-28-10
Toronto Marathon 11-18-09
Air Force Half 05-31-09
Cops For Cancer Half 05-03-09
Twin Cities Full, 10-05-08
Treherne Half, 09-15-08
MB Marathon 06-15-08
Cops For Cancer Half, 04-20-08
Hypothermic Half, 02-08
Great Grain Relay, February 2008
Treherne Half, 09-16-07
MB Marathon 06-17-07
Cops For Cancer Half, 04-29-07
Hypothermic Half, 02-25-07
MB Half Marathon 06-18-06
MB Half Marathon 06-19-05

Pearls of Wisdom

God (my editorial input: Buddha, Allah, Yahweh, Great Spirit, Creator) grant me the serenity to accept when I cannot run, the courage to run when I can, and the wisdom to understand the difference. received from a tweet

Embrace the suck. Military Speak (milspeak)

I run because I can. When I get tired, I remember those who can't run, what they'd give to have this simple gift I take for granted, and I run harder for them. I know they would do the same for me. Unknown

You have to wonder at times what you are doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement' Steve Prefontaine

Becoming a stronger runner is about getting rid of your weaknesses more than making your strengths stronger. Dr. Dean Kriellaars.

The world belongs to the energetic. Ralph Waldo Emerson

There will be days I don't now if I can do a marathon. There will be a lifetime knowing that I have. Greg Kuhl

I still haven't found what I'm looking for. Bono

I believe in miracles. I have to.

Terry Fox

Any idiot can run a mile; it takes a special kind of an idiot to run 26. compliments of Tall Girl Running

He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. Clarence Budington Kelland

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in moments of challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King

The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep. Robert Frost

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Seppo Osala collapses on course.