I never did think anyone would ever want to know these things. I've spent into the thousands of miles running and training and just thinking too! I never did think anyone would want to know these thoughts. Because they are kind of private you know.

I mean that is who you are sure talking to, in those runs you go on. Mile after mile after mile. For if there is anyone person you get to know ...it's yourself! I never did think anyone would ever come back and ask me what I was thinking about in all those miles.

Especially for a long distance runner. You know, marathoning! Go with your love ones to the races to get a glimpse of him at the starting line. Then you see him coming in from his battlefield...the road some three or three and half hours later.

He looks as though he has lost ten pounds since I seen him earlier this morning and you know what? He probably has! You always wonder why anyone would want to put their self through so much pain!

I did ask him at home one time and you know what he said? What he said about when on the road? He speaks often about the road. The road! The road! It's like it was a person or a something. Maybe to him it's like a dragon and a beast! He said when he's out there at times he really forgets he is even human or just that. A human and nothing more and nothing less.

I believe those are the times when he is with himself, his real self. No work, no family, no anything, just self! He mentions that most of us are a product of the past and most never escape from just that. It's only the few who ever escape and break free into the unknown. No more of the past and find the real you! The one he finds on the road. The other person in himself.

The road is always there! The other all too human thing comes out. And sometimes though I'm not with him, I do love the times... I know when he meets himself. The other self...on the road!