Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.

A bike ride. Yes, that's it! A simple bike ride. It's what I love to do and most days I can't believe they pay me to do it. A day is not the same without it.

Me and running don’t always see eye to eye. Some days it hurts more than others. But it doesn’t mean I don’t do it. I deal with it and I keep running because not everything that is good for you, always feels good for you.

Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry.

What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn't seem to matter what sport it was-in a straight-ahead, long-distant race, I could beat anybody. If it was a suffer-fest, I was good at it.

A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.

The way you live your life, the perspective you select, is a choice you make every single day when you wake up. It's yours to decide.