Rychen has been called The Sun God by a friend in our ward, who sees him run past her house a lot. She says he has perfect form and looks like a warrior. (You'd have to know her!)
This is our wall in the garage, with numbers from every race he's done (he started running two years ago). The frames are the full marathons. The metals are fulls and halves. On each bib, he's written the event and his time so he can keep track and see progress.
Now, this is the inside of his closet door which he sees every day, to stay motivated. It has his running miles schedule, maps of various marathon courses, and inspirational quotes.
Here's a really interesting quote which is probably offensive to several of you (myself included), but worth the read.
Rychen pretty much signs up for every marathon he can get his hands on, without doing Sunday races or traveling impractically. Sometimes those marathons land within weeks of each other, but that doesn't stop him. People have asked why he wants to do so much, and I think he asks himself that as well. He still says he doesn't know exactly why he runs! But to him, it's a regular, ongoing goal in his life, not just once a year. So that's why he is continually striving to run one at each opportunity--learning new things, seeing new courses, giving it yet another shot.
I am very impressed with his accomplishments as well as his family and my family. It's been nice to see the support. One day we might join him but in the meantime we are in awe.
Next week he will run his 3rd marathon within these 30 days (on his birthday--his first time running two marathons 9 days apart, we'll see how that goes!!), and after that is St. George on October 1st.
1 comment:
that's amazing. what dedication.
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