100 km event. In 1990, at age 73, he and George Billingsley ran across the United States for a summer 'fun run'. Two years later, he and wife Elaine headed east from their California home on a mission to run across each of the 14 remaining states west of the Mississippi River. Over the next five summers, Reese ran these states and wrote daily in his journal, the basis for his second book, Go East Old Man. Quote "Reflecting on 40 years of running and racing, I've come to the realization that the most important consideration about running is not how fast you can run, not how far you can run, but rather, the degree and manner in which running and racing enhance your life. That is the sum and substance of the worth of running. Having said that, I would venture to guess that very few runners either think or dwell on such enhancement. Their energies, their thoughts, are directed to times, PRs (personal records), races, mileage, gear, and the eternal search for the perfect shoe. I plead guilty to having done much of that when I was competing. Maybe the realization and appreciation of enhancement dawn only after a person has suffered the loss of running and racing. While active, we're just too damned obsessed with the inconsequential to recognize how privileged we are, how running and racing enhance our lives. One thing for sure, if you lose running and racing, you had better be able to devise ways to compensate because you will have a huge void to fill when you come to realize how running enhanced your life." Paul Reese, 2004 Books 1993, Ten Million Steps: The Incredible Journey of Paul Reese, Who Ran Across America--A Marathon a Day for 124 Days--At Age 73, High Country Books, 1997 Go East Old Man: Adventures of a Runner in His 70s Traveling 22 Western States, edited by Joe Henderson, Keokee Company Publishing, Inc., 2000 The Old Man and the Road: Reflections While Completing a Crossing of All 50 States on Foot at Age 80, with Joe Henderson, Keokee Company Publishing, Inc., External links FFSac.com - 'Paul Reese Memorial Clarksburg Country Run', Fleet Feet KeokeeBooks.com - 'Go East Old Man, Chapter 2, Oregon: On the Road Again' (excerpt), Paul Reese, Joe Henderson (1997) MarathonAndBeyond - 'Coping With the Inevitable: Aging and Diminished Physical Capacity Are Part of Life. We