Every day I spend time on the treadmill. I am walking faster, stronger and harder than I was two months ago.

Every day I spend time on the treadmill. I am walking faster, stronger and harder than I was two months ago.

I'll never do that again!

I love running. It's as simple as that ... it has given me endless rewards: physical, emotional, and professional. The benefits of running are lifelong. I ran as a child, and I intend to run into my old age.

The worst injury I ever had was a stress fracture from running.

Spend 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.

For every finish-line tape a runner breaks -- complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras -- there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about.