Exercise: you don't have time not to

The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing the rent, and healing the wound in his divided self. He has found a way to make the ordinary extraordinary; the commonplace unique; the everyday eternal.

I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.

The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences.

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.

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