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

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

Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.

Exercise: you don't have time not to

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

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.

It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.