I knew aerobic exercise was a powerful antidepressant, but I hadn’t realized it could be so profoundly mood-stabilizing and — I hate to use the word — meditative. If you don’t have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain’t getting them.
– Christopher McDougall, Born To Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (Alfred A. Knopf, May 2009)