Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind. Jackie Joyner-Kersee

As a runner, you don’t have decades of improvement, unless perhaps you are reading this book in your elementary school classroom . You’re always on the precipice of decline. Acknowledge that and perhaps we can think of it more like the happy elderly people. Love where you are, love who you are with, and be happy in the present. The finish line is coming for all runners and no one wants to be the first to break the tape.  The Happy Runner

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?  Albert Einstein

Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don’t have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up. Amby Burfoot

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 

For me, success in running wasn’t about how far or how fast I was going — it was about making a commitment to accomplish something hard, and then putting in the work to follow through.  Emily Abbate