It's been very difficult dealing with something like this. This is just a new challenge for me.

Winter, it seems, is back with a vengeance.

Paul is a good friend of mine and I really wanted to support all the people who have put together this race. It's a big deal for Pensacola to have this. I wasn't looking forward to calling (Paul) and telling him I couldn't run, but there really was no other alternative. I had to do it.

I thought I would be able recover enough to go (Sunday), but I just can't do it. It's disappointing.

To me, running a marathon is one of the ultimate challenges in sport. And for her to do it that many times, wow, she is a strong person. She knows her body, and she knows what she is capable of doing.

As new technology emerges as the greatest challenge to novels since the advent of film, it may be that the fragmentation of storytelling into installments key to Dickens's era will be recreated in some way.