My goal has always been to slow down as slowly as possible. It's as simple as that.

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.

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.

I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.

Why couldn't Pheidippides have died at 20 miles?

To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.