#runner

Buzz has reduced my range. Running safely with him means using fewer and shorter routes, with multiple laps per day or multiple returns there per week. Neither of us minds repeating ourselves. This is what runners do. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#day #fewer #him #laps #means

In fact, the bandits steal the drinks and assistance provided along the course. Worse, they cross the finish line and mess up the scoring of legitimate runners. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#assistance #bandits #course #cross #drinks

I can't think of anything that means less to me then money; it's too easy to come by. ↗

— Seregil

#money

But yeah, Ann [Trason] insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn't get it because they'd never broken through. For them, running was a miserable two miles motivated solely by size 6 jeans: get on the scale, get depressed, get your headphones on, and get it over with. But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it, like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it. ↗

— Christopher McDougall

#running #ultrarunners #motivational

Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a - it was bitter sweet but it was an opportunity. ↗

— Clay Aiken

#bitter #contract #fortunately #found #get

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#attitude #becomes #contracted #everyone #eye

He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#angry #beat #catch #could #difficult

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#distance #marathon #other #run #runners

I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#before #change #good #i #lot

No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it. ↗

— David R. Ellis

#always #approaching #because #boats #could