Archive for the ‘Quotes’ Category
No Shortcuts, No Secrets to Running Fast
I try to avoid reading the letsrun.com discussion boards because there is so much distasteful humor and contentious drivel. But I was browsing a thread recently and thought one response was very insightful (and funny), despite its deeply sarcastic tone.
One person stated his/her belief that the East African runners are so much better than the [...]
100 Miles a Week?
“If someone says, ‘Hey, I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you run?’ Ignore him….The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.”
–Bill Bowerman, former Oregon distance coach and Nike cofounder.
This quote can be found in the following book.
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The Quotable Runner: Great Moments of Wisdom, Inspiration, Wrongheadedness, and Humor (Paperback)
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Roger Bannister’s Training
“In his 1955 memoir, The Four-Minute Mile, Roger Bannister recalls running on the beach as a child. ‘no longer conscious of my movement I discovered a new unity with nature. I had found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never dreamt existed.’
“Sounds touchy-feely, but Bannister was not a process man. He [...]
The True Competitive Runner
“Quenton knew what the mystic-runners, the joggers, the runner-poets, the Zen runners, and others of their ilk were talking about. But he also knew that their euphoric selves were nowhere to be seen on dark, rainy mornings. They primarily wanted to talk it, not do it. Cassidy very early on understood that a true runner [...]