RunningAHEAD - Topic: Where did it come from? (running related)

Birdwell

posted: 9/13/2014 at 11:59 PM
modified: 9/14/2014 at 12:22 AM

"Run more, mostly easy, sometimes hard"

It's a phrase I learned here and it has become the foundation for my training.

But who said it first? where did the phrase originate?

Does anyone know or wish to claim it?

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mikeymike

posted: 9/14/2014 at 6:45 AM
modified: 9/14/2014 at 6:47 AM

It started with food. In any nutrition thread, Trent used to use the quote: "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants." It's from Michael Pollan's book The Omnivore's Dilemma.

One day I paraphrased it and said "run a lot, mostly easy, sometimes fast."

Trent thought that "run lots, mostly easy, sometimes hard" was truer to the original, so started using that version and that's the one that mostly stuck.

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kk_kittenkat

posted: 9/14/2014 at 7:19 AM

Quote from mikeymike on 9/14/2014 at 6:45 AM:

It started with food. In any nutrition thread, Trent used to use the quote: "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants." It's from Michael Pollan's book The Omnivore's Dilemma.

One day I paraphrased it and said "run a lot, mostly easy, sometimes fast."

Trent thought that "run lots, mostly easy, sometimes hard" was truer to the original, so started using that version and that's the one that mostly stuck.

I guess he hasn't read 'Run Less, Run Faster'.

Anyway, it's natural Fartlek which is never a bad thing.

HermosaBoy

posted: 9/14/2014 at 9:25 AM

Quote from mikeymike on 9/14/2014 at 6:45 AM:

It started with food. In any nutrition thread, Trent used to use the quote: "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants." It's from Michael Pollan's book The Omnivore's Dilemma.

One day I paraphrased it and said "run a lot, mostly easy, sometimes fast."

Trent thought that "run lots, mostly easy, sometimes hard" was truer to the original, so started using that version and that's the one that mostly stuck.

Thanks to both you and Trent -- I like how it evolved!!!

And you can quote me as saying I was mis-quoted. Groucho Marx

Rob

DavePNW

posted: 9/14/2014 at 10:51 AM

Quote from mikeymike on 9/14/2014 at 6:45 AM:

It started with food. In any nutrition thread, Trent used to use the quote: "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants." It's from Michael Pollan's book The Omnivore's Dilemma.

One day I paraphrased it and said "run a lot, mostly easy, sometimes fast."

Trent thought that "run lots, mostly easy, sometimes hard" was truer to the original, so started using that version and that's the one that mostly stuck.

My apologies to both Mikey & Trent for butchering the quote as well as misattributing it (to SRL), in another thread.

Dave

LedLincoln

not bad for mile 25

posted: 9/14/2014 at 11:45 AM

Quote from mikeymike on 9/14/2014 at 6:45 AM:

It started with food. In any nutrition thread, Trent used to use the quote: "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants." It's from Michael Pollan's book The Omnivore's Dilemma.

One day I paraphrased it and said "run a lot, mostly easy, sometimes fast."

Trent thought that "run lots, mostly easy, sometimes hard" was truer to the original, so started using that version and that's the one that mostly stuck.

Hope you don't mind it being stated, "Run lots, mostly easy, sometimes fast." Six words is better than seven, IMO. And now I suppose I have no excuse for not citing the author, copyright, trademark, patent holder when I repeat it.

beat

Break on through

posted: 9/15/2014 at 7:38 AM

So many variations are possible...

Run now, not too slow, mostly easy.

Run lots, eat food, mostly sleep.

Run easy, race hard, recover...

"Not to touch the Earth, not to see the Sun, nothing left to do but run, run, run..."

Wing

Joggaholic

posted: 9/15/2014 at 10:36 AM
modified: 9/15/2014 at 10:36 AM

Quote from mikeymike on 9/14/2014 at 6:45 AM:

It started with food. In any nutrition thread, Trent used to use the quote: "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants." It's from Michael Pollan's book The Omnivore's Dilemma.

One day I paraphrased it and said "run a lot, mostly easy, sometimes fast."

Trent thought that "run lots, mostly easy, sometimes hard" was truer to the original, so started using that version and that's the one that mostly stuck.

Thank you and Trent (and everyone else kept who quoting it) It had served me well for the last few years

blargendarg

some call me Tim

posted: 9/15/2014 at 11:21 PM

That's funny. This has been my general approach and I've doled it out to several others, but I read so much on training and frequent other sites and such that I didn't remember where I picked it up, and it really gets to the heart of success in training... makes me proud to be a part of this little playground. Thanks, guys Smile