“Know yourself. Never forget where you came from, and reach back to help someone else come forward too.”
Spirit
“The five S’s of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.”
-Ken Doherty
100 miles a week
“If you run 100 miles a week, you can eat anything you want – why? Because (a) you’ll burn all the calories you consume, (b) you deserve it, and (c) you’ll be injured soon and back on a restricted diet anyway.”
-Don Kardong
The Best
“The best long distance runners eat raw meat, run naked and sleep in the snow.”
Alaska Airlines Ad honoring Iditarod dogs (from Dana Roueche)
Going to Run All Night
“He stepped onto the road and in a reflexive gesture pawed at the crude paving as though it were hard packed cinders, and the heavy G.I. shoes were the short spiked ones of the distance runner. He felt sheepish, and in the darkness his mouth twisted into a grin. He began to run.”
From Going To Run All Night
By Harry Sylvester