Tarmac Meditations #124: Comin’ Father’s Day

As she ran by me at mile 18 of the McDonald Forest 50K she seemed pretty happy. I noticed a Chinese ideogram tattoo on her shoulder. I asked her what it meant. She smiled and said ‘father”, very quietly.

She turned and headed down the trail.

At the finish line I asked one of the volunteers why some people were finishing backwards. They told me the story of a man who had run a 5k backwards, who had died after crossing the finish line at Mac 10 years ago, who was being honored by those who remembered by their own finishing backwards. I finally put it together when I saw this at the finish.

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