If It Felt Good, You Didn't Push

I Wasn't Born With Any Innate Talent. I've Never Been Naturally Gifted At Anything. I Always Had To Work At It. The Only Way I Knew How To Succeed Was To Try Harder Than Anyone Else. Dogged Persistence Is What Got Me Through Life. But Here Was Something I Was Half-decent At. Being Able To Run Great Distances Was The One Thing I Could Offer The World. Others Might Be Faster, But I Could Go Longer. My Strongest Quality Is That I Never Give Up.

I Run With A Credit Card And A Cell Phone, So When There Is Not A 7-eleven Around, Like Some Of The Country Roads Out There, I Can Get Him To Deliver A Pizza To Me. And I Kind Of Give Them A Coordinate, A Corner.

Never, However, Do I Take Shortcuts. There Is Not Path Of Least Resistance In My Training. What I Do Equates To Hard Manual Labor, Disciplined Grunt Work. Once You Permit Yourself To Compromise, You Fail Yourself. You Might Be Able To Fool Some People, But You Can Never Fool Yourself. Your Toughest Critic Is The One You Face Every Morning In The Mirror.

I Do A Lot Of Marathons As Training Runs. If I'm Somewhere And There's A Marathon, I'll Sign Up And Just Go Run It.

Some Seek The Comfort Of Their Therapist's Office, Other Head To The Corner Pub And Dive Into A Pint, But I Chose Running As My Therapy.