Congratulations on working your asses off, literally and figuratively, to achieve your goal! As the say back in the old country, fuck the begrudgers!

go to that race site and you will see plenty of out of shape people participants

Boy, must be easy to see all of them from all the way up on your pedestal in the clouds.

It's insanity! Nothing wrong with running 5k's but 26.2 rhymes with FU!

her life was so devoid of meaning that she just wanted to be a part of something. .

A friend ran the marathon a couple of years ago and my wife and I were hanging around the South Loop anyway, so we decided to go see if we could catch her at the finish line. Some woman in a beach chair at the corner of 11th and Michigan was wearing out a cowbell and yelling weirdly generic phrases of support, like "Great job!" and "Looking good!" and "Almost there!" and, worst of all, "Yay runners!" After about 10 minutes, it became clear that this woman didn't actually know anyone running the marathon; her life was so devoid of meaning that she just wanted to be a part of something. She was so ungodly irritating that we left after a few minutes, so I don't know what became of her, but I really hope she ended up falling into the street and getting trampled.