How To Survive A Long Distance Run

Don't survive it. Enjoy it. Embrace the wheezing, the pain, the discomfort. Relax enough, and your body becomes so familiar with the cradle-rocking rhythm that you almost forgot you're moving. And once you break through to that soft, half-levitating flow, that's when the moonlight and champagne show up. You have to be in tune with your body, and know when you can push it and when you can back off. You have to listen closely to the sound of your own breathing; be aware of how much sweat is beading on your back; make sure to treat yourself to cool water and a salty snack and ask yourself, honestly and often, exactly how you feel. What could be more sensual than paying exquisite attention to your own body? Sensual counts as romantic, right?

Regret

"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."

Eleanor Hibbert

Self Discovery Through Pain

"Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be."

Dr. George Sheehan, Runner, Philosopher, author of "Running & Being: The Total Experience."

http://www.georgesheehan.com/

It is a sublime thing to suffer and be stronger.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Adventure of the Self

The distance race is a struggle that results in self-discovery. It is an adventure involving the limits of the self.

Paul Weiss

Thank You!

The American Chemistry Council collected over 2500 pounds of food and raised more than $1,000 in cash for the Arlington Food Assistance Center. AFAC was delighted to receive our donations. The food will be distributed immediately to help those in need. AFAC will use the cash to buy milk, eggs, meats and other perishable items (which they are able to purchase at government subsidy prices).

Many thanks to all of my ACC colleagues for their generosity.

http://www.afacinfo.org

Chris

From "I have to" to "I get to"

The more I thought about what I get to do, the less I realized I had to do. It was just a shift, just a new perspective, just a new and more grateful method for labeling the things in my life. Think about it—if you stopped yourself every single time you were about to say, "I have to" and changed it to "I get to," it might change your entire experience.

Kristin Armstrong, Mile Markers blog
http://milemarkers.runnersworld.com/