If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health. —HIPPOCRATES

You just have to do something that is moderately difficult for you and stick with it for at least twenty minutes. That’s because the runner’s high isn’t a running high. It’s a persistence high.

and a philosophy of living that he called “Stotan,” which he explained as a combination of Stoic and Spartan. He wrote that an athlete needed “hardness, toughness, and unswerving devotion to an ideal,” but he also needed to embrace “diet, philosophy, cultivation of the intellect, and openness to artistic endeavors.” According to Cerutty, “You only

C’est ainsi qu’en courant un marathon durant les mois d’hiver et en participant à un triathlon en été s’est établi le cycle de ma vie. Il n’y a pas de morte-saison, et je peux donc sembler toujours occupé, mais je n’ai pas l’intention de me plaindre, car cette existence m’apporte beaucoup de joies.