The music of a marathon is a powerful strain, one of those tunes of glory. It asks us to forsake pleasures, to discipline the body, to find courage, to renew faith and to become one's own person, utterly and completely.

Play is where life lives

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.

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

Sport is an essential element of education.

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.

Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.