I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be.

There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.

We who run...are different from those who merely study us. We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into words.

Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one.

There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down / until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living.

I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be.

I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.