. I looked for vitamin spinach, supplement spinach, clothes spinach… you name it. I was that guy at the race expos looking for the latest, newest, most surefire way of becoming leaner, fitter and faster.The first time I ran a mile in under 10 minutes

. Maybe a towel and a T-shirt with four-year-old sweat stains. But shoes for sure. Dirty shoes. Worn-out shoes. Shoes with broken laces. Shoes that look like they’ve been in the boot for years. Well guess what? They have been.It’s hard to toss out a great

’d known when they started out. JOHN BINGHAM1. Three steps forward, two steps backI thought that once I’d started running regularly, I’d become increasingly better all the time. I thought my progress would be linear. For a while, that’s exactly what