Never run more than 3 hours straight in training, whether your marathon best is 2:42 or 4:24.

The start of a World Cross Country event is like riding a horse in the middle of a buffalo stampede. It's a thrill if you keep up, but one slip and you're nothing but hoof prints.

A running machine, that glides over mud, crud and goop.

I lean with the hill. I know I'm doing it right if it feels like I'm going to fall on my face but I don't.

Just a second of her laughter can get me through the darkest day.

When you’re speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice.

I think it's awesome.

Some of my friends said, 'You are nuts.' But I think I am right.

My sister, my mother and I are great friends. We have always valued our immediate family immensely, something we learned from my father.

I'm not defined by where I came from.

If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much.

You can do anything you put your heart, mind and soul into. Far more than you can imagine. Be fearless. Do it.

I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.