The hours, minutes and seconds stand as visible reminders that your effort put them all there. Preserve until your next run, when the watch lets you see how Impermanent your efforts are. — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve. — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
Time means a great deal to every runner. It means everything to me, because most days miles don't count; only minutes do. — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
Where did you run today? Now there's a question you don't often hear. — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline… — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
Ours is a life of constant reruns. We're always circling back to where we'd we started, then starting all over again. Even if we… — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
The hours, minutes and seconds stand as visible reminders that your effort put them all there. Preserve until your next run, when the watch… — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
Speed eventually neared its peak. The records forced me to work ever harder to drop a less and less time. These time trials came… — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile. — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing. — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed… — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
They trained mostly by time periods, checking their pace for known distance only on special occasions. — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
A lesser but still fundamental rule of racing is that you properly enter the event. Anyone who doesn't but still insists on running interferes… — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
This act demonstrates graphically a turning away the past and moving ahead. You now get to refresh your time in a friendly way by… — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
Yet the home courses are where you spend dozens to hundreds of hours a year. You must choose them well. — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
When running to fill a time quota, however, the reverse happens. You can't make that time pass any faster by rushing, so you settle… — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
Buzz has reduced my range. Running safely with him means using fewer and shorter routes, with multiple laps per day or multiple returns there… — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
