Family is the best.  Friends are pretty great too.  Especially if they are friends AND training partners.  I have had the privilege the last few years of getting to be associated with the guys you see above.  I would like to think I have played some small part in their (running) lives.  I know they have helped me. Most of my “serious” training is done solo, and in the dark.

My lifestyle puts certain demands on my time and this is the only chance I get to really put in the workouts I need to put in.  On those occasions where friends are along to share the effort, it does not seem like effort.  I think it is something that only runners can understand.  The communal suffering.  The bonding of shared experience.

Here’s to you my brothers.