Reflections on Running’s Greatest Adventure
So about three weeks ago I sat in the same chair I’m sitting in now writing the first Antarctic blog entry to all of you. A fire was burning in the fireplace, as it is now. American Idol was on the TV, as it is now. My dog Sparky was sleeping on his blanket in the corner…it is pretty much the same scene, except everything has changed. We’ve been to the bottom of the planet. We’ve run the hardest marathon course most of us will ever encounter. We’ve seen a continent with a landscape that more resembles the moon than anything we’ve have here on earth. And, maybe most important of all, we’ve opened the eyes and the hearts of quite a few more people to the mission of the Children’s Tumor Foundation. That mission is to file the progressive disorder neurofibromatosis, in the history books beside polio, and the many other disorders and diseases the world’s scientists and researchers have collectively figured out how to manage or cure.
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