Edison Peña is living proof that sport can be a (0) POWERFUL (POWER) tool. The Chilean miner was trapped two-thousand feet underground with thirty-two others for sixty-nine days. Most people would find this appalling situation 1BEAR and Edison almost lost his battle against 2DESPOND. Amazingly, what helped him to overcome such feelings was jogging through the 3EXTEND system of underground tunnels. He believes he managed to survive his ordeal by concentrating on the 4MAINTAIN of a strict fitness routine. Running around six miles a day, his 5PERSIST paid off, and he emerged from the ordeal in relatively good shape. Following the miners' dramatic rescue, Peña was invited to attend the New York Marathon, not as a 6COMPETE but as an honoured spectator, the organisers having been impressed by his story. They 7ESTIMATE him, however, because he asked to compete. Disarmingly 8CHARM, Peña captivated the New York crowds. Not only did he run the race, but he finished it in less than the six hours he had set himself.