running

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, he understood, but to be with each other.

You need songs that make you feel. Some make you string, some make you weak. Some build determination, some tear you apart. But you need all of those...Run through the pain.

It had been said that the marathon doesn't really begin until mile twenty. I say mile twenty-six would be more appropriate. The final two-tenths of a mile is filled with emotion. No matter how desperately you're struggling at this point, thoughts typically drift away from the immediate task at hand (ie, survival) to broader feelings.

[Running] is a hard, simple calculus: Run until you can__ run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then run even faster.

The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket.

It can't be more than a quarter of a mile to the finish, but it seems to go on forever. Do I really have to do this? My legs are entirely dead. Would it really matter if I stopped here?But I know I'd regret it if I did, so I plod leadenly on, distracting myself...with the thought that, whatever troubles I may have been carrying around in my head before the race, I have now entirely forgotten what they were. This thought is rather refreshing. Whatever physical pains it has involved, this ordeal has utterly absorbed me, forcing my brain to focus on the kind of concerns for which it evolved - navigation, survival, balance, digging deep - rather than on the fretful urban anxieties to which it has become habituated. Reconnecting with your inner animal, I suppose you could call it; and it feels good. Especially when, blissfully, I catch sight of the finish.

Kevin knew he had to always outrun the enemy inside him, and if that meant playing football, he'd do it. During puberty, he had taken off running and found too late that he couldn't stop. In dreams that turned into nightmares he ran in fear, ripped from sleep in a sweat, shouting,"Run!

I__ going to Bristol,_ Matthew said desperately. ____l reschedule the meetings. I won__ do anything without your leave. But at least I can gather information_ interview the local transport firm, have a look at their horses__ __wift,_ the earl interrupted. Something in his quiet tone, a note of_ kindness?_ sympathy?_ caused Matthew to stiffen defensively. __ understand the reason for your urgency__ __o, you don__._ __ understand more than you might think. And in my experience, these problems can__ be solved by avoidance. You can never run far or fast enough._ Matthew froze, staring at Westcliff. The earl could have been referring either to Daisy, or to Matthew__ tarnished past. In either case he was probably right. Not that it changed anything. __ometimes running is the only choice,_ Matthew replied gruffly, and left the room without looking back.

...the real purpose of running isn__ to win a race. It__ to test the limits of the human heart.

Friedrich Nietzsche got pretty hung up on the notion of human will; really all he needed were some running shoes, Lycra and a place in the Berlin Marathon.

As every runner knows, running is about more than just putting one foot in front of the other; it is about our lifestyle and who we are.

Run, leap and celebrate for you are alive today!

If it's a nod from society you're looking for, run a marathon. But if it's a life-changing experience of personal strength and perseverance that you want, finish an ultra.

The marathon will humble you. But the truth is, sometimes it will do more than humble you. Sometimes it will break your heart.

CARE - Commitment Attitude Respect Effort

In a sprint, if you don't have perfect form, you're doomed. The ultra distance forgives injury, fatigue, bad form, and illness. A bear with determination will defeat a dreamy gazelle every time.

__s I get older I see that running has changed for me. What used to be about burning calories is now more about burning up what is false. Lies I used to tell myself about who I was and what I could do, friendships that cannot withstand hills or miles, the approval I no longer need to seek, and solidarity that cannot bear silence. I run to burn up what I don't need and ignite what I do.

I keep running away, As if from something, As if to something. I keep running away, As if from myself, As if to myself.