Why life is a marathon

Where is more to marathons than running. Or the sheer joy of it (yes, there are those - and I'm in complete awe of them - who feel 
running gives one pleasure). Emil Zátopek, the Czech long-distance runner who won three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics, had famously said, "If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon." Marathons are all about perseverance, working to a plan, upping your stakes as your plans get translated on the running ground. and they belong to a different league when it comes to life lessons. A friend of mine, an ardent marathon runner (she travels all over the world, spending her own money, to run marathons), says her life has been reinvented. I make fun of her at times - mostly because it irritates me why I always feel she's a far superior human being than I can ever "plan" to be - asking her how she manages to "schedule and implement" everything she does. She tells me life is all about a plan. Running marathons, strangely, is in step with a better life. This week, we profile a few runners who tell us how the marathon has won them the day.
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