Exercise: you don't have time not to

If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.

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.

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.

Life is the greatest experiment. Each of us is an experiment of one-observer and subject-making choices, living with them, recording the effects.

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

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