The events in Boston are all the more painful because marathons are about friendship, the exultation of finishing - and helping other people At the Guardian running blog, we celebrate the joys and pitfalls of running, but we never expected to be talking about tragedy. Yet it feels wrong not to acknowledge the awful events in Boston yesterday. Running is simultaneously the most private, lonely, self-obsessed pursuit - and the most sociable. We train alone - most of us measure ourselves only again...
The events in Boston are all the more painful because marathons are about friendship, the exultation of finishing - and helping other people At the Guardian running blog, we celebrate the joys and pitfalls of running, but we never expected to be talking about tragedy. Yet it feels wrong not to acknowledge the awful events in Boston yesterday. Running is simultaneously the most private, lonely, self-obsessed pursuit - and the most sociable. We train alone - most of us measure ourselves only again...
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