The Newbie Chronicles

This link is to a series of articles on Runner's World called The Newbie Chronicles. I hightly recommend it, mainly because it's hilarious. I did like one of its more serious quotes, for those moments when you're running by yourself:

"No one is an island. No one runs in a vacuum. There is always someone watching you leave the house, dig it out, come back, and do it all over again. You are being watched by a roommate, a brother, a spouse. The driver of every passing car. You are being watched by future generations. My grandmother ran in college! someone might say of you one day. My great uncle took it up in his 30s and ran marathons into his 60s! We are inexorably entwined within each other's influence. You may run by yourself, but no matter how early you start, no matter how remote your location, you never run alone."