The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory.

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

Have you ever felt worse after a run?

Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

I have a bumper sticker that Bowen created that says Regardless of my kids grades, they have an 'A' in my book'. Without play the child that still lives in all of us will always be incomplete. And not only physically, but creatively, intellectually, and spiritually as well.

The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing the rent, and healing the wound in his divided self. He has found a way to make the ordinary extraordinary; the commonplace unique; the everyday eternal.