If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.

Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life...trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour and deal with the decisive moment.

Have you ever felt worse after a run?

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

Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

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

If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.