Everyone is built for running.

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other.

Ask nothing from your running, and you'll get more than you ever imagined!

it’s easy to get outside yourself when you’re thinking about someone else.

The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket."

But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.

Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.