The only thing that lives beyond the grave is the wake you have created by the way you have lived your life; the goals you have set; the distance away from the normal you dared to tread.

COURAGE is not a quality you teach. Courage is the by-product of self-discipline. It is an ATTITUDE.

I never did cross training or lifted weights or put anything between myself and my passion for running.

Kids as young as twelve CAN run 90 minutes, and they can train hard to run fast, BUT they lose something in training hard at that early age.

When you hit a certain spot you Sprint no matter how you feel inside or what your co-runner thinks. You just go! In training as a nickel, you sprint because you need to sprint! You just do it! In racing people see it and call it courage, but it is attitude; determination; duty.

Set a new standard. Change reality. Break ground to something new and different. That achievement will live forever just because you WERE somebody special!

I had on my team a girl who at age twelve just missed the world mile record for her age group. But at 20 she just couldn't run.