How did people do this before the internet?

I'm on Facebook. I'm on Twitter. I read other blogs about running and the NYC marathon. I find inspiration every day from at least one of these places. Today, it was this:

Amazing. Just amazing.

I can't tell you how many tweets and blog entries I've read in the last few days from people really struggling with their training right now. We're all miserable. It's comforting, in a weird way, that we're fluctuating wildly day to day from feeling like we're going to be triumphant to feeling like we never want to run again. So when I see something like this it takes me out of my own internal battles and makes me root for someone else.