#running

Imagine your kid is running into the street and you have to sprint after her in bare feet," Eric told me when I picked up my training with him after my time with Ken. "You'll automatically lock into perfect form--you'll be up on your forefeet, with your back erect, head steady, arms high, elbows driving, and feet touching down quickly on the forefoot and kicking back toward your butt." You can't run uphill powerfully with poor biomechanics," Eric explained. ↗

— Christopher McDougall

#imagination

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#running #inspirational

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up. ↗

— Dean Karnazes

#running #inspirational

I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path, hit the trails, put one foot in front of the other, and come to the same conclusion I did: I run because it always takes me where I want to go. ↗

— Dean Karnazes

#inspirational

If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are. ↗

— Christopher McDougall

#running #inspirational

What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I've wrestled with that very question myself. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#calling #divine #i #i think #mean

They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the computers were for specifically so they knew how to dismantle the network I had been running. ↗

— Sherman Austin

#back #been #come #computers #dismantle

Running on different types of racetracks is challenging - not only for the drivers, but even more for the team members who have to make adjustments to the cars before each race. ↗

— Michael Andretti

#cars #challenging #different #different types #drivers

The idea that the harder you work, the better you're going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently. ↗

— Bill Bowerman

#improvement #intelligence #running #training #intelligence

People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and I believe running helps you to do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life — and for me, for writing as whole. I believe many runners would agree ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life