Thanks guys, it was not easy, when I was getting tired or started to feel my IT band on the side of my knee starting to hurt I would think about a couple of family members who fought but loss cancer but will remember how hard they fought, that was real pain what I was going though was nothing compared to their pain.

It also reminds me of a line from the football movie The Replacements:
"Pain heals, Chicks Dig Scars, Glory last forever"