Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.

You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.

Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.

Numbers don't lie. You always seem to remember your workouts as being a little better than they were. It's good to go back and review what you do.

For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point.

You can actually suffer a little bit more going slowly than when you're going really fast. A faster marathon might even be easier than a slow one, in terms of what it takes out of you mentally.

The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.