Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.

Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables.

Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race.

I do a lot of marathons as training runs. If I'm somewhere and there's a marathon, I'll sign up and just go run it.

I have an ElliptiGO. It's a standup bicycle. You don't pedal; you stride on it. It allows me to have the same striding motion as running without the impact.

Pain is the body's way of ridding itself of weakness.

There is magic in misery. Just ask any runner.