Here's to breaking 20 for 5k (à la EddyLee)

Just logged on and saw this thread near the top. Even before I clicked on it, I had a feeling something bad had happened.

Today, the world lost one of the good guys.

RIP Will.

Thanks, CG, for sharing your brave battle with us. Your honest words have touched many hearts here. Many blessings to your wife and children. I will keep you all in my prayers.

Black page, sticky this to the top, and right a story about CG.

Show your stuff, Brojos.

Thank you Will. You inspired all of us.

Old Man Runner wrote:

Just logged on and saw this thread near the top. Even before I clicked on it, I had a feeling something bad had happened.

Today, the world lost one of the good guys.

RIP Will.

Ditto. I was just looking yesterday for a post from him, hoping ...

But he is running pain-free in heaven now, and leaves behind incredible inspiration for us. Thanks, Will, and blessings and peace to your family.

I was dreading the day that I would open this thread and read this news.

RIP Will / CG. You will go down in LR history.

I didn't update the site on Christmas and I just saw the news about Will and send my thoughts and prayers to his family.

I met Will in October and was blown away by his grace and desire to help others as he was fighting for his life.

I was hoping to write a piece on Will and Ken Martin by the 29th when I'm going out of town for 2 weeks. I can't believe he won't be around to read it.

I'll turn it more into a tribute piece on Will, so if anyone has anything they want to email me, my email is

weldonjohnson@letsrun.com

I just read this entire thread for the first time. Amazing. I met Will in October and was super impressed with him. I'm even more so now.

I think one of the reasons I hadn't read this thread is I don't like thinking about death. If I ignore the concept, then God will let me live my 80 years or so, that I deserve.

Seeing Will and talking to him reaffirmed that living is about making the most of every day. It's not about just prolonging life but actively living it.

Will represents the best of runners, what running is about and even letsrun.com. The thread has nearly 500 posts and not a single post has been removed from it. Will's story inspires us all.

Will- thank you for all you taught me.

Very sorry to hear about this. Condolences to his family and friends.

the cancer guy wrote:

1.5 walk with kiddos. Ankles hurt. Really swollen ankles from hospital stay...still.

His last words to us on Nov 22nd.

He kept plugging away and logging everything and updating us.

He appreciated life and reminded us how we take it for granted.

I've followed the thread off and on since its inception, and just went back and read the whole thing. Heart-wrenching, inspiring stuff.

Anyone who read this thread was inspired by Will to be a better person.

I wanted to write, "rest in peace," but you're not the kind of person to rest, are you? So run in peace.

I'm sad, but also grateful that you're no longer in pain.

Thank you for all what you gave us.

Sad as it is, this is my first look at this thread--I think I'd just assumed it was akin to the other Eddy Lee thread, people talking about 5k training.

I only wish I had taken a look, but even reading it through now, I am deeply moved and touched by Will's grace and courage in working through his cancer. He lives in my heart. And reminders in this thread to live fully and cherish every moment are beyond priceless.

Brojos, this one is a keeper!

My condolences to Will's family and to all the posters here whose lives he touched.

Thank you, Will, and I only wish I had been here sooner to thank you, but I hope that thank you travels through the universe and finds you.

This is truly sad. I had been paying attention to his struggle for a while now as my mother was also battling cancer and just very recently passed as well. RIP.

Wejo and Rejo, Is there any way you guys can pin this up top. It seems like such a waste to let it fall to the bottom of the page.

I read through the entire thread in one sitting after being led here by the "poster of the year" thread. I saw this thread bouncing around for months, but I had no clue what the OP was going through.

I am not afraid to admit that I started crying a couple pages in, and I cried all the way through to this current moment. I'm going for a walk and heading to bed. I'll wake up in the morning very happy to be alive.

Honestly, reading through this whole thing is the most emotional thing that I have read in my entire life. A man is confronting his own impending death, and being open about it with complete strangers. His words have made me rethink many things I believe about our short time on this speck in the universe.

I don't know what else to say but offer gratitude to everybody involved with this thread. Reading this was a wonderful example of pure, unexpected beauty we can produce as humans.

I think it is fitting with the tribute to Will on the site to bump this thread today.

A lot of posters make comments about how this site and message board are in the gutter, and there is definitely a lot of smut to be found here. But threads like this show me that Letsrun still has some hope.

rest in piece, friend.