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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.

Do Not Tell Me What To Do, Tell Me What You Do. Do Not Tell Me What Is Good For Me, Tell Me What Is Good For You. If, At The Same Time, You Reveal The You In Me, If You Become A Mirror To My Inner Self, Then You Have Made A Reader And A Friend.

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.

Sport Is Singularly Able To Give Us Peak Experience Where We Feel Completely One With The World And Transcend All Conflicts As We Finally Become Our Own Potential.

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.