“A running friend from England once dropped into town, and when I told him how I lived and worked at a running shoe store making maybe $8 an hour, trained all the time, and lived on rice, beef and beans, he looked at me with earnest jealousy and said: “you’re living the dream life.” Only another running geek would have said something like that, and I agreed with him. I was embracing the secret every distance runner uncovers- that having the discipline and sacrifice is infinitely more enjoyable that suffocating in pure comfort. ”
