I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It’s much more important than your heart or legs.
I’ve never known a runner who had as much patience as he needed.
Set a goal and a program for yourself, and everything else will follow. Guaranteed.
The true but rare runner’s high is a zone that we enter when everything seems to click perfectly, when time stands still, and when we can run almost without effort.
As we run, we become.
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.