#running

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

Is there so much hate for the ones we love? Tell me we both matter don't we? ↗

— Kate Bush

#love

If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them. ↗

— Christopher McDougall

#running #meditation

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon. ↗

— Kathrine Switzer

#running #faith

Vary your training, your running partners, and your environment. Only your imagination limits the ways you can spice up your running routine. ↗

— Bob Glover

#imagination

It's only when movement becomes the most natural state in our lives that we can finally begin to enjoy the motion. And it's only when standing still becomes impossible that we can finally embrace the kinds of changes that are inevitable in our lives. We were not designed to stand still. If we were, we'd have at least three legs. We were designed to move. Our bodies are bodies that have walked across vast continents. Our bodies are bodies that have carried objects of art and war over great distances. We are no less mobile than our ancestors. We are athletes. We are warriors. We are human. ↗

— John Bingham

#inspirational #running #running-for-mortals #art

Movement is the essence of life. ↗

— Bernd Heinrich

#running #inspirational

Running is a brutal and emotional sport. It's also a simple, primal sport. As humans, on a most basic level, we get hungry, we sleep, we yearn for love, we run. ↗

— Adharanand Finn

#love

Poetry, music, forests, oceans, solitude--they were what developed enormous spiritual strength. I came to realize that spirit, as much or more than physical conditioning, had to be stored up before a race. ↗

— Herb Elliott

#music