Each runner's capacity to absorb hard training is different. Find your own unique level of comfort and success will be yours.

Motivation remains key to the marathon: the motivation to begin; the motivation to continue; the motivation never to quit.

I double-knot my shoe laces. It's a pain untying your shoes afterward-particularly if you get them wet-but so is stopping in the middle of a race to tie them.

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?

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

Each runner's capacity to absorb hard training is different. Find your own unique level of comfort and success will be yours.

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.