Because Quote by Joe Henderson

“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

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The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline…

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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…

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Speed eventually neared its peak. The records forced me to work ever harder to drop a less and less time. These time trials came…

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That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile.

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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.

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Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed…

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They trained mostly by time periods, checking their pace for known distance only on special occasions.

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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…

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Yet the home courses are where you spend dozens to hundreds of hours a year. You must choose them well.

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