Everyone Is Built For Running.

When It Comes To Mentors, You Can't Beat Survival.

If You Read Folklore And Mythology, Any Kind Of Myths, Any Kind Of Tall Tales, Running Is Always Associated With Freedom And Vitality And Youthfulness And Eternal Vigor. It's Only In Our Lifetime That Running Has Become Associated With Fear And Pain.

Perhaps All Our Troubles - All The Violence, Obesity, Illness, Depression, And Greed We Can't Overcome - Began When We Stopped Living As Running People. Deny Your Nature, And It Will Erupt In Some Other, Uglier Way.

...there Was Some Kind Of Connection Between The Capacity To Love And The Capacity To Love *running*. The Engineering Was Certainly The Same: Both Depended On Loosening Your Grip On Your Own Desires, Putting Aside What You Wanted And Appreciating What You've Got, Being Patient And Forgiving And... Undemanding...maybe We Shouldn't Be Surprised That Getting Better At One Could Make You Better At The Other.

If You Don't Have Answers To Your Problems After A Four-hour Run, You Ain't Getting Them.