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I don’t think you can become an outstanding runner unless you get a certain amount of enjoyment out of the suffering. You have to enjoy absorbing it, controlling it, and – ultimately – overcoming it. – Derek Clayton The Honolulu Marathon is like a box of chocolate-covered macadamia nuts. You always know what you are…
Psychologically speaking, what is true requires no protection, and never becomes negative when challenged. On the other hand, what is false almost never stops trying to protect itself, which it does by finding fault with whatever or whoever challenges the false image behind which it always hides. – Guy Finley Don’t know if my vote got…
This book is dedicated to people with disabilities, especially those who deal with chronic pain. And to those who love and care for them. Losing the best thing a lifetime of running had brought and searching the entire county to find it. [An excerpt from a runner’s forthcoming memoir of redline pain, recovery, renewal and…
Behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force is my religion. To that extent, I am in point of fact, religious. – Einstein I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the…
Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you. – Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls Admittedly, he’d had too much to drink the night before. She was brown and…
Marathon running [in Japan] was seen as a worthy and admirable pursuit, embodying the discipline, effort and commitment the country valued and needed to get back on its feet after the devastation of the war. – Adharanand Finn By Benji Durden The trip to Japan is a marathon event itself. From the west coast it…
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. ― Epicurus Have a question I like to ask. Never stay around for the answer. Don’t give a shit really. The answer is yours. Somebody asked you when you…
You told me once you believed in God. The old man waved his hand. Maybe, he said. I got no reason to think he believes in me. Oh I’d like to see him for a minute if I could. What would you say to him? Well, I think I’d just tell him. I’d say: Wait…
I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. – Sylvia Plath MORNING I look and I look Nary a dolphin in sight. Going sun blind here. AFTERNOON Drinking chardonnay. Listening to “Funky Town.” Already nap time. EVENING Monday night…
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,A light from the shadows shall spring;Renewed shall be blade that was broken,The crownless again shall be king.”― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring So, anyway, another dispatch from DeSantistan. If banners on local swag poles are any indicator, the natives are confused. Nuclear secrets hidden in the minifridge…