Every normal person structures their life around the pursuit of happiness. The life of an elite runner is supposed to be the exact opposite. Track stars are supposed to be tired all of the time. We even push ourselves to hurt in ways other people spend their entire lives avoiding. When we reach a point in training where that threshold of hurt wains we kick up the intensity more to make it hurt again even worse. That is how we get faster. We are searching for that hurt in every race. If you've ever run an all out mile you know that hurt I'm talking about. That dry heaving, fire lunged, jello legged, personal assault that climaxes to a final, depleted quiver where you succumb to life. We can never be satisfied. The last effort is never sufficient and enough is never enough.

Looking back on this year now that I've taken the time again to reflect I've purposefully restructured my thinking. I fully embrace my the philosophy of Run and Destroy. I will continue to run with pure reckless abandon and I will destroy all of the transient things that get in the way of my ultimate goal of becoming the best runner I can ever be. I will destroy fear, destroy doubt, and destroy limitations. I will destroy my strength to build it up stronger. I will destroy my endurance to enhance it. Most importantly I will continue to foster an irrepressible, raging, blaze of torrential desire upon which I will melt away and destroy all semblance of happiness and contentment.

~Anthony Famiglietti