Don't Confuse Comfort With Happiness.

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.

If It Felt Good, You Didn't Push Hard Enough. It's Supposed To Hurt Like Hell.

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.

Pain Is The Body's Way Of Ridding Itself Of Weakness.

I've Raced On All Seven Continents At Least Twice. I've Probably Run Thousands Of Races. But The Single Race That I'm Most Proud Is A 10k. Yes, A 10k. I Ran It With My Daughter On Her 10th Birthday.