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London Marathon

Not only is the London Marathon a good excuse to travel abroad, it’s also a great way to experience the city. The terrain is mostly flat, for starters, with very few serious inclines. That’s one reason why Paula Ratcliffe set her world record of 2:15:25 here—a time that no woman has approached since. Runners start in Blackheath, head east through Charlton and Woolrich, cross the river Thames, and loop back around the east end of London. virginlondonmarathon.com

 

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The Honolulu Marathon

While running on Hawaii’s pristine beaches certainly qualifies as a perk, the true draw to the 39-year-old Honolulu Marathon is the post-party. Every year thousands of exhausted competitors crowd into Kapiolani Park—adjacent to Waikiki Beach—to relax their tender hamstrings and recharge with Mai Tais and live music. After consuming plenty of H20, of course. honolulumarathon.org

 

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New York City Marathon

The New York Marathon snakes through all five boroughs from Brooklyn to the Upper East Side, traversing five bridges. Expect to be crowded at the start line—nearly 50,000 people sign up for the race every year. Try and set your sights on the scenery—not the sweaty bodies—surrounding you. “Of all the grand things that happen in New York City,” says Fultz, “the marathon is the grandest.” nycmarathon.org

 

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I Run

To forget the person I left behind in 2009 as I ran toward the person I am today.

 

I Run

because it makes me feel powerful.

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Muscles don’t become more powerful during the hard sessions but during the recovery. The former tears down, and the later builds up. In other words, you have to go through hell to get to heaven.

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Pain isn’t a lot of fun, at least not for most folks, but it is utterly unique to life. Pain—physical, emotional, and otherwise—is the shadow cast by everything you want out of life, the alternative to the result you were hoping for, and the inevitable creator of strength. From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before. Pain is there to tell us when we’ve done something badly—it’s a teacher, a guide, one that is always there to both warn us of our limitations and challenge us to overcome them...For something no one likes, pain does us a whole hell of a lot of good.

 

Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files (Jim Butcher)

 

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“I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.

-Game of Thrones

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Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

-Game of Thrones