I received the best advice for running I ever heard: 'You're not going to win, so just relax. If it feels like work, you're running too hard.

If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.

There are two goddesses in your heart,” he told them. “The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards. You have to give your heart to the Goddess of Wisdom, give her all your love and attention, and the Goddess of Wealth will become jealous, and follow you.” Ask nothing from your running, in other words, and you’ll get more than you ever imagined.

The Tarahumara would party like this all night, then rouse themselves the next morning to face off in a running race that could last not two miles, not two hours, but two full days. According to the Mexican historian Francisco Almada, a Tarahumara champion once ran 435 miles, the equivalent of setting out for a jog in New York City and not stopping till you were closing in on Detroit.

We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.

Sometimes,' she said, 'it takes a woman to bring out the best in a man.