“There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is being superior to your previous self”
Tim Twietmeyer
“You can solve anything while out on a run, sometimes the run just has to be a little longer”
Krissy Moehl
“Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.”
Buddhist proverb
“This is my third 100 where somewhere around (Mile) 70 or 75 it just started to feel good. I warmed up finally, I guess.”
Geoff Roes, after winning the 2010 WS100
“It’s all about patience, saving yourself for later”
Jamie Donaldson
What went through your mind as you crossed the finish line the first time you won that race?
Anton Krupicka, on his first Leadville 100 win
“Wow, I’m so thankful for the opportunity to sit down.”
“I just don’t think I’m built for running fifty miles,” I said. “Everyone is built for running,” he said.
Christopher McDougall
You run Badwater because there’s something in you that wants to get out there, in the middle of nowhere, and think about something.
Marshall Ulrich
It’s a way of freeing yourself, getting back to what I really believe people
are supposed to be doing instead of relying so much on a bunch of material crap that only makes us weaker.
We are built to run, to cover great distance, for survival sake.
Find the level of intolerance you can tolerate and stay there.
David Horton
Ten hours before I was in pain and I was cold, and then I was running across the finish line and it dawned me, I am a runner.
Ray Zahab, on the Yukon Arctic Ultra
