The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am.

Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.

Fitness has to be fun. If it is not play there will be no fitness. Play, you see, is where the process. Fitness is merely the product.

And while these pounds were being shed, while the physiological miracles were occurring with the heart and muscle and metabolism, psychological marvels were taking place as well. Just so, the world over, bodies, minds, and souls are constantly being born again, during miles on the road.

Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.

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

No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences.