I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.

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.

You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.

As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.

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 train best where you are the happiest.