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Master of the Side Eye
I'm really not sure where I heard this, but I like it: "No matter how slow I run, I'm still faster than my couch."
I'm really not sure where I heard this, but I like it:
"No matter how slow I run, I'm still faster than my couch."
+1. Love it!
TRUST THE PROCESS
"Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you're using your skills to the utmost." - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi "The Road to Hell is Paved" - unknown trail runner "Ultrarunning: Most sports only require one ball." - On a sign at the '09 Leadville 100 "If you don't do it this year, you'll just be one year older when you do." -Warren Miller "The race continued as I hammered up the trail, passing rocks and trees as if they were standing still." - Red Fisher, Wasatch 100 mile run '86 The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. - Robert Frost "Getting up in the morning to run an ultramarathon is like getting up to be hanged -- on an empty stomach." - Trevor Banks "A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well." - G. K. Chesterton "Any idiot can run a marathon. It takes a special kind of idiot to run an ultramarathon." - Alan Cabelly
"If you don't do it this year, you'll just be one year older when you do." -Warren Miller "The race continued as I hammered up the trail, passing rocks and trees as if they were standing still." - Red Fisher, Wasatch 100 mile run '86 The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. - Robert Frost "Getting up in the morning to run an ultramarathon is like getting up to be hanged -- on an empty stomach." - Trevor Banks "A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well." - G. K. Chesterton "Any idiot can run a marathon. It takes a special kind of idiot to run an ultramarathon." - Alan Cabelly
"The race continued as I hammered up the trail, passing rocks and trees as if they were standing still." - Red Fisher, Wasatch 100 mile run '86 The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. - Robert Frost "Getting up in the morning to run an ultramarathon is like getting up to be hanged -- on an empty stomach." - Trevor Banks "A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well." - G. K. Chesterton "Any idiot can run a marathon. It takes a special kind of idiot to run an ultramarathon." - Alan Cabelly
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. - Robert Frost "Getting up in the morning to run an ultramarathon is like getting up to be hanged -- on an empty stomach." - Trevor Banks "A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well." - G. K. Chesterton "Any idiot can run a marathon. It takes a special kind of idiot to run an ultramarathon." - Alan Cabelly
"Getting up in the morning to run an ultramarathon is like getting up to be hanged -- on an empty stomach." - Trevor Banks "A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well." - G. K. Chesterton "Any idiot can run a marathon. It takes a special kind of idiot to run an ultramarathon." - Alan Cabelly
"A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well." - G. K. Chesterton "Any idiot can run a marathon. It takes a special kind of idiot to run an ultramarathon." - Alan Cabelly
"Any idiot can run a marathon. It takes a special kind of idiot to run an ultramarathon." - Alan Cabelly
"...and you finally decide not to fight the pain any longer... and you let it settle.... you let the pain settle in every muscle and every joint down to the tips of your toes....
...and you run, you just run. "Run" is all you know....
Do no attribute to fitness that which can be blamed on hills, heat, and humidity.
I like this one! My personal favorite is in my signature.
I don't half-ass anything
"I have several close friends who have run marathons, a word that is actually derived from two Swahili words: mara, which means 'to die a horrible death' and thon, which means 'for a stupid T-shirt.' Look it up." - Celia Rivenbark, You Can't Drink All Day if You Don't Start in the Morning
The King of Beasts
Go then, there are worlds other than these. - Jake
"As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man I have chalked up many a mile. Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks, And I've learned much from both of their styles." ~ Jimmy Buffett
"I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way."”
she runs like a girl
"F*** it, let's run!" ~ Me
Said on how to get to a location several miles away when there was no other transportation available
"You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas" Davy Crockett
"Why couldn't Pheidippides have died here?"
--- Frank Shorter's comment to Kenny Moore at the 16-mile mark in one of Shorter's first marathons.
"There is no finish line"
---- Written on the back of my Nike running cap.
"You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face. "
-- Gatorade commercial
Break on through
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
"Not to touch the Earth, not to see the Sun, nothing left to do but run, run, run..."
It's a hill -- get over it.
I love it! Maybe it'll come to mind next time I"m on Kennedy!
Sulphur Springs 50km-- Ancaster, ON-- May 28, 2022
Tally in the Valley 12 hours-- Dundas, ON -- July 30, 2022 (Support SickKids Toronto)
Stokely Creek-- 56km-- Sault Ste. Marie, ON-- Sept. 24, 2022
If you have golf balls...golf!
If you have real balls...RACE!
PBs since age 60: 5k- 24:36, 10k - 47:17. Half Marathon- 1:42:41.
10 miles (unofficial) 1:16:44.
I look my best blurry!
"No brain, no pain"
That's exactly why I am on the injured reserve list.
Champions are made when no one is watching