Train, don t strain. For this afternoon s workout, I wore my running shoes around the apartment for half an hour, gradually tightening my terrycloth headband. Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger , says Nietzsche, the dead philosopher. Today I faced the long, lonely, agonizing test of t-shirt shopping emerging from the fiery caldron of indecision with a new definition of who and what I am. Were obviously declasse.
Man is by nature a running animal.
The rhythm of the run is etched in the very DNA of every human cell. None A runner must train his mind as well as his body. We who would aspire to the pinnacles of athletic excellence must be able to endure pain, monotony, numbing repetition, disappointment and despair. I began my mental workout listening to a Stiller and Meara comedy album. At Long Last Love.