I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It’s much more important than your heart or legs.
I like to say, and I truly believe, that every run brings new experiences. You just don’t know what they might be until you actually do the run. That’s one of my major reasons for pushing out the front door as often as I do-the adventure of it all.
Best wishes for a great marathon. Be sure to savor it. The first marathon is something special. Run long and healthy.
Running is ultimately a personal experience. It is a revival of the spirit, a private oasis for the thirsty mind. Yet, its healing power only increases in the presence of others. Run together and the oasis grows cooler and more satisfying.
Once upon a time, about 20 years ago, runners believed they didn’t have to do anything but run.
Success does not come to the most righteous and rigorously disciplined but to those who continue running.
Motivation is a skill. It can be learned and practiced.
Everyone stumbles at one time or another. It’s the human condition.
Running removes us briefly from the fragmentation and depersonalization of the digital world.
I’ve always liked hills. I see a challenge, a goal, and I feel instantly galvanized to achieve that goal.
Courage is crossing a starting line.
In the longest run of all, your life, you’re going to be a winner.
Don’t judge your running by your speed.
I run because I enjoy it – not always, but most of the time. I run because I have always run – not trained, but run. What do I get? Joy and pain. Good health and injuries. Exhilaration and despair. A feeling of accomplishment and a feeling of waste. The sunrise and the sunset.
It’s what runners do. We keep on keeping on.
Here’s my mantra: ‘Every mile is a gift.’
It’s not about how fast you go. It’s not about how far you go. It’s a process.
Runners don’t quit. We fade; we “hit the wall”; we’re sometimes reduced to a walk. But we keep on.
While none of us can know for sure that running will add years to our life, there’s no doubt it will add life to our years.
And, finally, I run because there’s no better way to see the sun rise and set.
I run because I am an animal. I run because it is part of my genetic wiring. I run because millions of years of evolution have left me programmed to run. And, finally, I run because there’s no better way to see the sun rise and set.