Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
I have met my hero, and he is me.
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
As long as my heart's still in it, I'll keep going. If the passion's there, why stop?...There'll likely be a point of diminishing returns, a point where my strength will begin to wane. Until then, I'll just keep plodding onward, putting one foot in front of the other to the best of my ability. Smiling the entire time.
I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue.
The Tarahumara would party like this all night, then rouse themselves the next morning to face off in a running race that could last not two miles, not two hours, but two full days. According to the Mexican historian Francisco Almada, a Tarahumara champion once ran 435 miles, the equivalent of setting out for a jog in New York City and not stopping till you were closing in on Detroit.
Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not demanding more from yourself - expanding and learning as you go - you're choosing a numb existence. You're denying yourself an extraordinary trip.
But I also realize that winning doesn't always mean getting first place; it means getting the best out of yourself.
Long Distance training can be a positive
I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.
Every run is a work of art, a drawing on each day's canvas. Some runs are shouts and some runs are whispers. Some runs are eulogies and others celebrations. When you're angry, a run can be a sharp slap in the face. When happy, a run is your song. And when your running progresses enough to become the chrysalis through which your life is viewed, motivation is almost beside the point. Rather, it's running that motivates you for everything else the day holds.
Every day is a fresh start; don't measure yourself by yesterday's troubles.
Movement is the essence of life.
Everything you need is already inside.
When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.
Just because the race is worth it, doesn't mean it's easy.
If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.
The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.
Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.
I will do today what you won't, so I can do tomorrow what you can't.
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