#john bingham

In the end, becoming a successful marathoner meant taking just one step. Success became a matter of stepping across the finish line. With that single step, I succeeded. With that single step, and all the other single steps that preceded it, I became successful. As important as that final step was, it was no more important than every step that came before it. It is easy to believe that it was the final step alone that made me successful, but my success was really the result of thousands of steps that had come before. It was hundreds of miles of preparation and training, days and weeks of planning that got me successfully to the finish line. Not just that last step.

John Bingham: I AM A RUNNER

It is distance, not speed, that holds the answers. The reward comes with crossing and confronting the boundaries of fatigue.