“The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.” ~ John Bingham
“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” ~ Lance Armstrong
"In running, it doesn't matter if you come in first, in the middle of the pack, or last. You can say 'I have finished.' There is a lot of satisfaction in that." ~ Fred LeBow
“There is no better feeling in the world than to take your mind and body to a place you thought it couldn’t go; a place you thought it didn’t belong. You should all try it sometime.” ~ Shauna Reid
“Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must, just never give up.” ~ Dean Karnazes
"I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement." ~ Steve Prefontaine
"From the moment you cross the start line, you know that crossing the finish line will be one of the best moments of your life." ~ Author Unknown
"You have a choice, you can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face." ~ Gatorade 3
"There is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving." ~ Amby Burfoot
"If you run, you are a runner. It doesn’t matter how fast or how far. It doesn’t matter if today is your first day or if you’ve been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run." ~ John Bingham
My First 5K and More... 
Oh, these are beautiful photos, Darlene.
Montreal and Denver are places I’ve never been to. One day, I’ll have to make a “North America” bucket list and visit all these places.
Will you be going to Florida this month?
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I think so. I need sun and sand.
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With the exception of Palm Springs, I have been to all of these places — I have run in all of them except Paris & Bermuda (I was only 9 years old when I visited Bermuda, though).
You have visited many beautiful places, in this country and outside of this country.
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Yes I feel lucky. I only wish when I travelled to conference all over the country for work, I was a runner. Now I don’t have the time or $$ to do much traveling. I do plan to go back to Paris…not sure if anywhere else exciting.
But at least I have a job to pay the bills (so can’t complain).
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I haven’t been much of a world traveler, so I wouldn’t have much to contribute unless I did a bucket list approach. I have seen some beautiful US cities, though, for which I’m quite grateful 🙂
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there are so many beautiful places to run in the US. I wish I could travel more. Still grateful that I have had some nice race-cations.
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Montreal is very pretty! There are some really cool places in Canada…I haven’t been!
Thanks for sharing. Palm Springs is a blast- so hot though for running, haha!
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It is hot but dry heat…so much easier to run in than Florida.
I’d love to travel to some more places in Canada too. I’d just want to travel more.
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Yes, dry heat is so much easier!
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Love all of your photos, especially the ones from Bermuda and Paris!
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Those are my favorite of course.
I feel grateful for these views.
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I think you shared some wonderful views! I really would love to go to Paris again and Denver has been on my list for a while!
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I want to go to Paris again too!
Also Philly. It rained the whole time I was there!!
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Those are GREAT views! The one from Denver caught my attention (well so did Paris and Bermuda). Are those beans?
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I think they are. I don’t remember what they represent though.
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Those are some really nice views! I wish I was more of a runner when I traveled to Europe in college. I ran in London (where I was studying abroad) but not in any of the other places I visited.
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Same. I wish I was a runner when I traveled.
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So many gorgeous places! I love to see it!
I think Vegas would be so fun.
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It was fun. Great places to hike nearby too.
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Vegas is such a fun place to run a race. I still have not done one in NY and that needs to happen! Maybe next year?
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Yes yes. NY needs to happen. NYC or Wineglass.
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Absolutely beautiful! One of my favorite parts of running is taking in the sights especially at new places! It’s the best way to see the world!
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Totally agree!
I wish I knew that when I was younger and had more opportunities totravel.
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These pictures are beautiful! I’ve traveled in Europe but there are lots of places here in the US that I’ve never been to. When I travel again I just want to go around the US and see the incredible sights we have right here. And of course run in beautiful locations!
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I haven’t travel near enough since I became a runner (which was very late in life). But the best way to see a place is running there.
Hope there is more travel in both of our futures.
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So many beautiful views! I want to go to Paris again (and many of the places I went in Europe) and this time run through them.
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Yes definitely return to Paris. And as you said run in places that I visited before I was a runner. Esp. Europe.
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Great photos! Hawaii is one of my favorite places to run in the US. The views in the Canary Islands were amazing and I remember the solitude and sheer beauty of nature when running in Costa Rica. I had so much fun running through the tiny towns in Austria, with the Alps as the backdrop. So many others but I’ll stop there.
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So jealous. Would love to run in all those places you just mentioned and more.
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Beautiful pictures! Your outside the US is better than mine would be. I’ve only traveled to Italy, and we were on the go and walking so much that I didn’t run.
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They were all race cations so of course I ran.
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I don’t have nearly enough photos from the places I’ve traveled because so many were pre-cell phone cameras! When my husband and I did the Paris Marathon we carried disposable cameras.
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Ha Ha. I remember those days. I used to race with a phone in one pocket and a camera in the other.
I can’t remember the last time I used a real camera.
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