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My name is Steve, I\u2019m from Boston, and I am Boston Strong. \xa0\n\nThere\u2019s a certain amount of pride that I have, in saying that.\xa0 But the truth is, we\u2019re all from Boston.\xa0 Boston...is more than just a city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...for runners like you and I, it\u2019s a idea...it\u2019s a place where dreams come true. \xa0\n\nThe course from the Hopkinton Bandstand to Boylston Street is more than just a paved roadway...it\u2019s a course.\xa0 Wherever you\u2019re hearing me right now, that course is connected to you.\xa0 When you lace up your shoes and open your own squeaky front door, you\u2019re taking to the same road, on the same planet as I.\xa0 The phrase \u201cThink Global, Run Local\u201d has never been so true as it was on the afternoon of April 15th, Patriots Day...a day of heros.\n\nI am now going to say something that is well overdue...I\u2019m going to admit that I was wrong about something.\xa0 I\u2019m wrong about alot of things, but I\u2019m stubborn too, I\u2019m a cranky New Englander...but when faced with the truth...I have no alternative but to accept my our fault.\n\nI once said, on this podcast, that it doesn\u2019t take courage to run, in fact I dedicated an entire episode to that silly notion back in December of 2008, episode 166 \u201cIt\u2019s Not About Courage\u201d. \xa0\n\nIn that episode I said that \u201cJust because someone says that it takes courage for you to run your first mile, does not make it so.\xa0 It does not make noble the action by affixing such terms to explain how you came to be.\u201d\xa0 \xa0\n\nFellow runners, don\u2019t you belive that.\xa0 I was wrong, and I apologize with all my heart. \xa0\n\nYou know how much the Boston Marathon means to me; you know how much this city means to me...but the fact is, that we all have courage...the first responders, the fire, police and emergency crews who responded at risk to their own lives, and the many, MANY fellow runners who did exactly what any of you would have done: we are indomitable, we overcome pain, we use our bodies as they were meant to be used, and we sacrifice for the good of this world.\n\nIt is about courage, afterall.\xa0 When you take to the road, you\u2019re becoming a hero...a hero who would gladly help other runners by passing out bottles of water, a hero who would walk into a little burger joint near the finish line and grab a couple of big trash bags to give to a complete stranger for warmth, a hero who would risk being with other people in an area where the attacks took place, as a way to offer fellowship and comfort.\n\nOh, yes, there are so many hero\u2019s in our community...so many fellow runners willing to sacrifice, help and fight for what\u2019s right.\xa0 The cowardly terrorists who dropped those backpacks with pressure cooker bombs thought they could scare you, they thought they could end the marathon, frighten the world and send a message of hatred that would force us to cower in the darkness.\n\nAll they did was kill and hurt some good people, and make a bloody mess of Boylston Street.\xa0 There\u2019s a concept in physics discovered by Sirl Issac Newton as his third law of motion.\n\n\u201cActioni contrariam semper et \xe6qualem esse reactionem\u201d\n\nTo every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction\n\nFellow runners, we could be heros.\xa0 We could respond to this act of terror, with acts of heroism; armed with, as weapons, kindness, respect, sacrifice and wave after wave of love.\n\nOf course it takes courage to run, it\u2019s something that those who would stop us most clearly don\u2019t understand.\xa0 Instead of defeating us on Boylston Street, the terrorist\u2019s empowered us all over the world, to set postive examples for others on how to be good animals, better people, and brave heros.\n\nLinks:\n\nOn Monday, May 5th, join my friends and fellow runners, and I, in Boston as we celebrate the life of Jacob Tinkoff and run to the finish line of the Boston Marathon. 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