Runner's World essentially wrote me out of its history in 2004. With this book I get the chance to write myself back in. Here I rerun all the "Joe's Journal" columns, 1987 to 2004, with none of the weaker ones (in my judgment) weeded out. They appear here in the same order that readers first saw them, without further editing (except to correct obvious errors from the original) or any updates.I ask them only to stand or fall on their own merits.