Looking for Running Motivation

Looking for Running Motivation

I am trying to figure out ways to stay motivated to run.  I read a blog and the blogger talked about reading "Runners World" religiously so I bought one and thought I could read it in the car while waiting for kids.  Most of their articles are short.  I also started looking around for running blogs.
Since I have started running again (run/walk), I never got to where I could really run when I was doing it before, I am hoping to get further in running this time. Last time it never got easy.  I am hoping to get to the point where I can actually run many miles, but I am afraid that might be a pipe dream.  I found a blog called myfitfamily.com.  I loved the article called The Running Theif.  Here are two excerpts from it that I really liked.

1 - 7 years and thousands of miles ago, I couldn’t run a single mile without stopping.  I couldn’t run a mile without feeling like my lungs were going to burst out of me, without feeling like my knees weren’t meant to run, without worrying: but I don’t look like a runner.
This makes me feel like I have hope.  I can only run about 400 meters without stopping then I need about 400 meters of walking! So maybe I can get there also.

2 - My running truths are that it never really does get easy. You’ll learn to love that some days you’ll look forward to a run and other days you’ll have to drag yourself out the door–confused how you can love something so much yet some days find it so challenging.  You’ll learn that sometimes it takes you a long time to get warmed up in your run but when you do, everything falls in place and for a moment–maybe a mile, or quite a few miles–it does feel easy. You’ll learn that that easy feeling will come and go and that sometimes you’ll want to run a pace that feels comfortable and some days you’ll want to push the pace so hard you feel like your lungs are going to burst and somehow—both runs will leave you feeling smiling, breathless and thankful.   This part made me feel better.  I thought it would get easier and it never really did.  I guess as long as you push yourself it won't be easy.  But I want to get to the part where you really love it whether or not it is hard.

Also if you are just starting to run like I am here is an Open letter from Seejenroerun. I learned a lot from it too.

How do you stay motivated?  Are their blogs or magazines you read to keep you motivated?  If so let me know in the comment section.