Favorite running quote

fatozzig

posted: 6/13/2011 at 6:54 PM

I found this one today. It seems appropriate considering I decided this weekend I want to run a 100-mile trail run in 2013.

"If you are ever going to achieve as much as you can in a sport, you are going to have to be willing to make a leap of faith to learn how much your body can handle." (Meredith Rainey Valmon)

Leslie
Living and Running Behind the Redwood Curtain
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"Our lives are not determined by what happens to us, but how we react to what happens; not by what life brings us, but by the attitude we bring to life." (Unknown)
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dallasboycows

posted: 6/13/2011 at 7:24 PM

Quote from Rickym_ on 6/13/2011 at 5:58 PM:

You don't get a body like this from walking

that's hilarious.

wildchild

posted: 6/14/2011 at 10:20 AM

Back of shirt: "If you see me collapse, please hit 'Pause' on my Garmin."

I hammered down the trail, passing rocks and trees like they were standing still.

bigbunny

Follow the white rabbit

posted: 6/14/2011 at 10:23 AM

Quote from wildchild on 6/14/2011 at 10:20 AM:

Back of shirt: "If you see me collapse, please hit 'Pause' on my Garmin."

I was just given a Road ID as a gift. I should have put that on there. I love it.

KerCanDo70

posted: 6/14/2011 at 10:26 AM

"The time you clock after you come across the finish line doesn't comes close to reflecting the distance you come to get there!"

2012 Goals:

#1: Do what I can do.

#2: Finish and enjoy a full Ironman

And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed. -- Dr. Seuss

Purdey

posted: 6/14/2011 at 10:41 AM

Quote from wildchild on 6/14/2011 at 10:20 AM:

Back of shirt: "If you see me collapse, please hit 'Pause' on my Garmin."

I "LOL'd"

What was the secret, they wanted to know; in a thousand different ways they wanted to know The Secret. And not one of them was prepared, truly prepared to believe that it had not so much to do with chemicals and zippy mental tricks as with that most unprofound and sometimes heart-rending process of removing, molecule by molecule, the very tough rubber that comprised the bottoms of his training shoes. The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials

NaderAlfie

posted: 6/14/2011 at 10:43 AM
modified: 6/14/2011 at 10:44 AM

This shirt is BLACK...Pause...NOT!

AlmostQuick

posted: 6/14/2011 at 11:00 AM

Have to remind myself of this now and again: "Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional."

FlatH

posted: 6/14/2011 at 11:07 AM

Quote from fatozzig on 6/13/2011 at 6:54 PM:

I found this one today. It seems appropriate considering I decided this weekend I want to run a 100-mile trail run in 2013.

"If you are ever going to achieve as much as you can in a sport, you are going to have to be willing to make a leap of faith to learn how much your body can handle." (Meredith Rainey Valmon)

Meredith is an 800m runner.

The process is the goal.

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny

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