It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.

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.

The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.

I want my time spent running to serve as a reward.

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

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

My goal is to break three hours in a marathon