Being a runner means you are now 'free' to win and lose and live life to its fullest.
I also feel it usually takes four or five races to hit your best marathon for your body to be accustomed to the training AND the race itself.
I believe in gradual experimentation with running shoes.
I want to run until I can't run
No one who works a forty hour week will ever beat me.
Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors - that is what motivates me.