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As our nation is increasingly obese, how can we criticize or complain about people doing any type of exercise? I am one of those people written about. I enter all level of races and plan to do my first full marathon in January. It may take me 6 or 7 hours. I have medical issues and have my own business which keeps me at work six days a week. That fact that I sign up and participate is good enough for me. I do train but my time is limited.
Oprah brought it to the masses. More power to her. It is a personal experience for anyone and no one should judge. Marathons can be very uplifting experiences. There are participates who have no limbs yet have contraptions to help them participate, blind runners who hold on to their guide with a string. To be able to do it, that is where it is. Lets embrace marathon mania as perhaps the savior of Americans in a time when we are fatter and unhealthier than ever.
