If Marathoners Finish They Win.

It's Very Hard In The Beginning To Understand That The Whole Idea Is Not To Beat The Other Runners. Eventually You Learn That The Competition Is Against The Little Voice Inside You That Wants You To Quit.

The Distance Runner Is Mysteriously Reconciling The Separations Of Body And Mind, Of Pain And Pleasure, Of The Conscious And The Unconscious. He Is Repairing The Rent, And Healing The Wound In His Divided Self. He Has Found A Way To Make The Ordinary Extraordinary; The Commonplace Unique; The Everyday Eternal.

Out On The Roads There Is Fitness And Self-discovery And The Persons We Were Destined To Be.

Happiness Is Different From Pleasure. Happiness Has Something To Do With Struggling And Enduring And Accomplishing.

The Music Of A Marathon Is A Powerful Strain, One Of Those Tunes Of Glory. It Asks Us To Forsake Pleasures, To Discipline The Body, To Find Courage, To Renew Faith And To Become One's Own Person, Utterly And Completely.