Once You Have Decided That

People Begin Running For Any Number Of Motives, But We Stick To It For One Basic Reason-to Find Out Who We Really Are.

Success Rests With Having The Courage And Endurance And, Above All, The Will To Become The Person You Are, However Peculiar That May Be. Then You Will Be Able To Say, I Found My Hero And He Is Me.

On The Roads, I Can See Truth Revealed Whole Without Thought Or Reason. There I Experience The Sudden Understanding That Comes Unasked, Unbidden. I Simply Rest, Rest Within Myself, Rest Within The Pure Rhythm Of My Running. And I Wait.

There Are As Many Reasons For Running As There Are Days In The Year, Years In My Life. But Mostly I Run Because I Am An Animal And A Child, An Artist And A Saint. So, Too, Are You. Find Your Own Play, Your Own Self-renewing Compulsion, And You Will Become The Person You Are Meant To Be.

Of All The Races, There Is No Better Stage For Heroism Than A Marathon.