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You Have to Do the Miles August 23, 2005

On a Friday night before the Ludington Lakestride Half-Marathon we were eating a pre-race meal with the family in a little Italian Restaurant. During our dinner we were talking about my friend Dan, who is a Marathoner. He ran the Boston Marathon this year. He is very, very quick.

I said, “Dan Cummings is running tomorrow. I wonder if he’ll wait around to watch me finish.”

One of the girls said, “Dad, what if you came in before he did, tomorrow?”

I said, “I would be a little more likely to win Miss America.”

You don’t just stumble into greatness. In running terms, you have to do the miles. And it doesn’t hurt if you have a little natural speed.

Life is like that. Sometimes good things just seem to fall in your lap, but more often then not you have to “do the miles.”

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