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.

The marathon can humble you.

Don't feel guilty about driving somewhere nice to run. If people can drive to a park to eat hot dogs, you can drive there to run.

I often lose motivation, but it's something I accept as normal.

I ran my fastest marathon in the rain.

I want to run until I can't run

Runners...you're competitive, but you want to have fun, too. You want to enjoy life. And runners really get to do that, I think-after we recover.