you should think before you pink as you might before giving to any solicitor of charitable funds but lets not argue about the color and the ribbon which was 20 years ago an emblem of openness about a disease that women were afraid to mention out loud beyond pink what matters for future progress against breast cancer the 262 miles i will run on november 4 may be for my father and other stroke survivors but this race has become about so much more since deciding to run the marathon i have traveled over 900 miles by foot and spent nearly 140 hours training lessons learned training for first marathon