Everyone wins the marathon. We all have the same feeling at the start-nervous, anxious, excited. It is a broader, richer, and even with twenty-seven thousand people-more intimate experience than I found when racing in track. New York is the marathon that all the biggest stars want to win, but has also been the stage for an array of human stories more vast than any other sporting event.
Grete WaitzSpend at least some of your training time, and other parts of your day, concentrating on what you are doing in training and visualizing your success.
Grete WaitzThere is something about the ritual of the race - putting on the number, lining up, being timed - that brings out the best in us.
Grete Waitz