 Posted by simon on 11/13/2006 I loved finding the quote from Olympic marathon medallist Deena Kastor on her website: "I have always taken the philosophy that you have to dream a little in this sport. If you stay in your comfort zone, you’re not going to do anything special". But my "everyday" favourite remains: "Run as much as you can which continues to sum things up nicely for me and helps me focus when I'm getting confused about the what, when and how much of training. It's from Kevin Beck, author of "Run Strong", who also has what he describes as "Kevin Beck's Minimalist Running Site" here. | |
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Chris says:
"The Miracle isn't that I finished... The Miracle is that I had the courage to start."
-- John Bingham
Brian says:
My favorite quote is the Special Olympics Athlete Oath: "Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt."
noob_runner says:
This is a quote that was in a book I read years ago... I don't even remember the title.
"Winning is in the mind, not the muscles."
For some reason that always stuck with me...
jlynnbob says:
This always makes me want to go run...
"What is it like when a day of running ends and I come down out of the mountains? Though my thighs are not always able to lift the foot high enough, I am strong. With my limbs caked with mud and my clothes soaked with sweat, I am clean. Though fatigue pulses through every nerve, I am well rested. With my skin torn from brambles and poking Balsam fir, I am whole. I've been around for 46 years, but the mountains and I are eternal. We will visit together as often as I can manage. And one peaceful day, I will return home forever."
- Damon Douglas (via Dick Vincent, RD Escarpment Trail Run)
...and this is what goes through my mind during a race...
"When my body gives out and my head tells me to quit, my heart compels me to struggle on. At some point, however, my head and my heart get in 'cahoots' with each other. They both demand I stop. That is when my Spirit soars and their protestations are of no avail. I am propelled by a Force unseen, drawn to a potential I have yet to realize. I shake off the burden of the physical and wake up to experience my dream. At last I am free."
-Dog Gezgo
I am a new member and look forward to the growth of this site.
Lynn B
"I run in the path of your commands, for you have set my heart free." Ps 119:32
simon says:
Lovely stuff!
The first one reminded me of running in English woodland when I was in my inspired-by-Percy-Cerutty phase. As you probably recall, the great Aussie coach developed a running philosophy that he called "Stotan" -- a combination of Stoic anmd Spartan. I used to deliberately run through bramble thickets to toughen myself up!
Thanks Lynn, and welcome.
baselbutt says:
"if you run for yourself, you might let yourself down, but if you run for someone else, you'll never let them down..."
simon says:
"Faster. It's only pain."
Just found this great quote on the wikipedia entry for Herb Elliot. It's attributed to Percy Cerutty.
"Elliott credited his visionary and iconoclastic coach, Percy Cerutty, with inspiration to train harder and more naturally than anyone of his era. Cerutty was known to avoid the track, talk about role models outside athletics (like DaVinci and Jesus), and bring his athletes to the unspoiled seaside beauty of Portsea training camp south of Melbourne, where Elliott would sprint up sand dunes until he dropped."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Elliott
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