Hal Higdon

"Different people have different reasons for racing, but one is simply the incentive to get out and run, increase mileage, and feel good."

- Hal Higdon

"Different people have different reasons for racing, but one is simply the incentive to get out and run, increase mileage and feel good."

- Hal Higdon

"Motivation remains key to the marathon: the motivation to begin; the motivation to continue; the motivation never to quit."

- Hal Higdon

"You didn't beat me. You merely finished in front of me."

- Hal Higdon

"We all have bad days and bad workouts, when running gets ugly, when split times seem slow, when you wonder why you started. It will pass."

- Hal Higdon

"You can run 5K races until your dresser drawers overflow with T-shirts, but it is not quite the same as going to the starting line of a marathon."

- Hal Higdon

"The marathon never ceases to be a race of joy, a race of wonder."

- Hal Higdon

"It's not so much that I began to run, but that I continued."

- Hal Higdon