The most important day in any running program is rest. Rest days give your muscles time to recover so you can run again. Your muscles build in strength as you rest.

We all have bad days and bad workouts, when running gets ugly, when split times seem slow, when you wonder why you started. It will pass.

The pride in finishing a marathon is much greater than all the pain endured during the marathon.

In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long distance runner, what does it matter, as long as he puts his garbage out on Tuesdays?

Life is a series of hard and easy runs.

It can be said that the first half of the marathon is 20 miles long; the second half, 6.2 more.

The difference between the mile and the marathon is the difference between burning your fingers with a match and being slowly roasted over hot coals.