The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.

There is no substitute for learning to live in our bodies.

Exercise: you don't have time not to

No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences. My times become slower and slower, but the experience of the race is unchanged: each race a drama, each race a challenge, each race stretching me in one way or another, and each race telling me more about myself and others.

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.

People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.

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