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 run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be.

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

Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.

Every runner is an experiment of one.

Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

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