Have you ever felt worse after a run?

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

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

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year.... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child.

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.

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

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