“I love being with friends.”
“Running gives me a peace of mind. It can be relaxing.”
“It’s just fun, and it feels good.”
“I like to eat.”
“The faster you run, the faster you’re done.”
“Even if you have to stop and stretch, keep going.”
TVC East Jamboree at Delta College in University Center, Michigan.
“[Steve Prefontaine] just wanted it more. He wasn’t afraid to lead. If he wanted to win it, he was gonna win it.”
“What do you love about running?”
“It’s just so much fun, and you get to meet a bunch of really great people, and it’s a great community.”
“What’s the best piece of running advice you’ve ever received?”
“Run your own race.”
“As for the teams we’re facing, just go and get them. Be better than them.”
“Do you remember what got you into running?”
“When I was younger, I had a really mean, bad baseball coach. He made me end up quitting that sport, and my sister ran, and I said, Well, I don’t want to deal with him as a coach, so I might as well try something else. That’s what got me into running. So if it wasn’t for that guy being the way he was, I wouldn’t have gotten into running.”
Nothing but genius when Silverstein meets running.
“Perry. It was out in the middle of nowhere, by the side of a highway. It was right next to a mobile home park in the middle of the woods. I mean, it was all uphill and downhill. And it rained the night before, so it was all mud, and we were crawling up and down the hills. This one hill, we went to the bottom, and it’s all mud, and you have to get on your hands and knees to crawl back up. … No one PR’d that day. We just went there and had fun.”
“Did your coach give you any advice before the race?”
“Use the hills. Use the hills to your advantage. Yeah, and he said just be careful not to fly off into the bushes. … After the race, we went to that [muddy] hill and did it a couple more times, just crawling back up it.”
Hooray Run 