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 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.

Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors - that is what motivates me.

Anybody can be a runner. We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport.

Running is a very natural activity. If you get too caught up, you find yourself constantly seeking to make running something that it isn't. You should let it be what it is - a very simple activity. Running has become too complicated for many people and they wind up turning sour on the sport, or losing the focus of their direction.

I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results.

The most difficult part, when you decide to make running a part of your life style, is the basic initial commitment. Everybody says, 'I don't have the time.' It's up to you to say, 'I do have the time.' For me, beginning to run when I was a student was an ideal situation. However, I've also trained as much as 130 miles per week during periods when I worked a full-time job. It ultimately becomes second nature. It becomes a habit, a routine part of your daily life