The Difference Between A Jogger And A

Like Everyone Else, I Want To Be Challenged. I Want To Find Out Whether Or Not I Am A Coward. I Want To See How Much Effort I Can Put Out . . . What I Can Endure . . . If I Measure Up. Running Allows That.

I Have A Bumper Sticker That Bowen Created That Says Regardless Of My Kids Grades, They Have An 'a' In My Book'. Without Play The Child That Still Lives In All Of Us Will Always Be Incomplete. And Not Only Physically, But Creatively, Intellectually, And Spiritually As Well.

The Distance Runner Is Mysteriously Reconciling The Separations Of Body And Mind, Of Pain And Pleasure, Of The Conscious And The Unconscious. He Is Repairing The Rent, And Healing The Wound In His Divided Self. He Has Found A Way To Make The Ordinary Extraordinary; The Commonplace Unique; The Everyday Eternal.

The Key Then Is To Find Your Own Mountain, Otherwise You Will Be Competing With People Who Are Not Even In Your Event, And Running Up Against The 'shoulds' And 'oughts' Of That World, And The Inevitable Frustration And Depression And Feelings Of Failure. A Person Can Be Complete Or Incomplete, But One Thing Is Sure, He Cannot Be Someone Else.

The Difference Between A Jogger And A Runner Is An Entry Blank.