Train at your current fitness level, or slightly above — not where you want to be.

Only the most saintly and delusional among us welcomes all pain as challenge, perceives all loss as harsh blessing.

We all lose sometimes. We fail to get what we want. Friends and loved ones leave. We make a decision we regret. We try our hardest and come up short. It's not the losing that defines us. It's how we lose. It's what we do afterward.

What we eat is a matter of life and death.

We move forward, but we must stay in the present.

As powerful as our legs are, as magnificent as our lungs and arms and muscles are, nothing matters more than the mind.

Fear is what makes you come alive, the lure of the unknown - can I do this? - thats where the growth comes from, the pain. I dont remember the running effortlessly; I remember the hard times; adversity breathes transformation.