Life From the Sidelines

The Twin Cities Marathon went right by our house (actually within half a mile), and Emily and I made great spectators. I am hoping to find a fun summer marathon to do and right now am leaning toward San Diego in June of 2005.

In the meantime, this was by far the most politcal marathon I have ever seen. If the election were held today and it was decided by how many marathoners wore Kerry or Bush stickers, Kerry would have won by 100%, which qualifies as a landslide.

There's a national group of runners who have mobilized against Bush. The group is Run Against Bush and they have clubs throughout the country. They also have a blog ( click here to see it).

Anyway, I don't know if this group handed out Kerry stickers to anyone who wanted them at the start, or if the Kerry campaign itself had the foresight to do it. Either way it was really cool to see all these pro-Kerry runners on the course with zero visibility for Bush.

So today was doubly inspiring. It gave me some momentum to keep training even as it gets cold and it encouraged me to think that Kerry may have a shot to win afterall.