Sublime

tracking the physical and emotional well-being of more than seven hundred people who grew up in Boston during the 1930s and 1940s.

“Worry early

the joy of sharing the miles and the journey with like-minded people.

The Greeks had a word for this animal attachment to life: philozotéon, an adjective that means something like being a friend and ally to existence. Though for years I was my body’s own worst enemy, the person most responsible for its aches and pains, thanks to running I now find myself cheering my body on, no longer rowing against the current and

Although the training plans do not specifically schedule preparatory training races, I urge you to factor these in.

This is not the path to merely crossing the finish line, but rather an education in balanced training and, better yet, developing a lifelong love for the sport.

And so I kept running, and Brenin kept running with me; and we both got fitter, and leaner, and harder. This pragmatic impetus for my new-found fitness, however, quickly changed into something else. On our runs together, I realized something both humbling and profound: I was in the presence of a creature that was, in most important respects, unques