"When I race, my mind is full of doubts. Who will come in second? Who will come in third?"
- Nourredine Morceli
"When I race, my mind is full of doubts. Who will come in second? Who will come in third?"
- Nourredine Morceli
All that running will destroy your knee's.
Lookie, lookie, lookie at Kat's black bookie
There will come a point in the race, when you alone will need to decide. You will need to make a choice. Do you really want it? You will need to decide
Rolf Arrands
Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have nature and that is much better.
Juha Vaatainen
There ain't no shame looking at a good runner's back. Now, if the runner sucks, that's something else entirely
Unknown
If you want to run to win, you have to become comfortable being uncomfortable
ME (I think)
“There is no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.”
Bill Bowerman
I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.
-- Alberto Salazar
"If you want to win a race, you have to go a little berserk."
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"A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more."
Pre
“The will to win is nothing without the will to prepare.” Juma Ikangaa
"If I am still standing at the end of the race, hit me with a board and knock me down, because that means I didn't run hard enough." - Steve Jones
Run until you can't run anymore... then keep going, because you're doing an out-and-back.
Treadmills are sweaty video games. Level up!
Joggers are just runners who don't care if they get passed.
We're all friends the first 23 miles. Then I remember, "Hey, I wanna destroy these guys."
It never gets easier. You just get faster.
"Running is a big question mark that’s there each and every day. It asks you, 'Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?'"
-- John Bingham, author of the respected column "The Penguin Chronicles" and the seminal book for serious runners, "No Need for Speed
hold the phone wrote:
"When I race, my mind is full of doubts. Who will come in second? Who will come in third?"
- Nourredine Morceli
This is the best one so far.
whimzy what wrote:
Run until you can't run anymore... then keep going, because you're doing an out-and-back.
Treadmills are sweaty video games. Level up!
Joggers are just runners who don't care if they get passed.
We're all friends the first 23 miles. Then I remember, "Hey, I wanna destroy these guys."
All these are good also. Thanks
"I'm not sufficiently organized or ambitious to do all the things you're supposed to do if you're serious. The more time you spend fiddlediddling with this and that, the less time there is to run."
- Ed Whitlock
vox cursor wrote:
If Death wants to take me, he'd better be tapering.
I like this one.
Also,
“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.”
― Christopher McDougall
Right foot. Left foot. Faster. Faster. Go home. Shower. -Bill Hicks
"It's you vs excuses. Go ahead, choose."
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." by Haruki Murakami