There is no substitute for learning to live in our bodies.
Fitness is just a stage you pass through on the way to becoming a racer.
The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.
I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.
The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.
On the roads, I can see truth revealed whole without thought or reason. There I experience the sudden understanding that comes unasked, unbidden. I simply rest, rest within myself, rest within the pure rhythm of my running. And I wait.