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May 16, 2008 7:05 PM by
x_39_and_holding_x
3,887 posts since
Dec 15, 2007
May 16, 2008 6:30 AM
Running quotes
I get one a day from runner's world and this is todays.
"The marathon, you see, is my benchmark. It is the status symbol in my community, the running community."
I ama fan of anyone who runs as Len will tell you. LOL We all have our favorite distance but once you run a marathon it is fun to tell the world. I challenge all to run a second one because it is so much more fun then the painful first one.
Jimmy
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"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."
~PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN
2,453 posts since
Aug 15, 2007
My favorites:
"The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life
conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I
run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to
become the person that I am". ~George Sheehan, M.D.
I do today what you won't, so tomorrow I do what you can't.
And as far as the second marathon, that's why most of the old shoes are back, isn't it? 
I do today what you won't, so tomorrow I do what you can't.
In Training: Pittsburgh Triathlon | My Running Blog
3,887 posts since
Dec 15, 2007
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May 16, 2008 6:51 AM
in response to: DCtoPgh
Re: Running quotes
My favorites:
"The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life
conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I
run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to
become the person that I am". ~George Sheehan, M.D.
I do today what you won't, so tomorrow I do what you can't.
And as far as the second marathon, that's why most of the old shoes are back, isn't it?
Kat,
I love both of those quotes. I have seen some good ones but that first one is very true and explains why I run. Liz always makes me go for a run when I need to really figure something out. I think that is why I had a really good, fast run yesterday. I love the evolution I call my life. Liz gets a kick out of it but also hates it because I refer to myself as the one that is constantly evolving.
As for the old shoes I am not much worried about them getting that next marathon in but am trying to motivate others to committing to a second one before they do their first one. The race is just a small part of running a marathon it is the constant state of benefitting from the training. The mental edge it gives you as well as the healthier lifestyle.
Jimmy
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."
~PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN
6,197 posts since
Jan 18, 2008
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May 16, 2008 6:52 AM
in response to: DCtoPgh
Re: Running quotes
It's the ongoing challenge in my life. That's what keeps me coming back.
Forget about reason, forget about rhyme. Beg, steal or borrow, you got another hill to climb.
G. Lightfoot
2,453 posts since
Aug 15, 2007
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As for the old shoes I am not much worried about them getting that next marathon in but am trying to motivate others to committing to a second one before they do their first one. The race is just a small part of running a marathon it is the constant state of benefitting from the training. The mental edge it gives you as well as the healthier lifestyle.
Jimmy
I committed to Antarctica before running my first so that I'd need to stay in the game. I didn't want to "just" run one and then bow out and have it be one of those "10 years ago I..." stories. I've never thought about it, but if I wasn't signed up for Antarctica I probably would be running at all now, let alone training for MCM. I had so many setbacks this winter, without another goal on the horizon it would have been much easier to throw in the towel.
I do today what you won't, so tomorrow I do what you can't.
In Training: Pittsburgh Triathlon | My Running Blog
3,887 posts since
Dec 15, 2007
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May 16, 2008 7:20 AM
in response to: DCtoPgh
Re: Running quotes
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As for the old shoes I am not much worried about them getting that next marathon in but am trying to motivate others to committing to a second one before they do their first one. The race is just a small part of running a marathon it is the constant state of benefitting from the training. The mental edge it gives you as well as the healthier lifestyle.
Jimmy
I committed to Antarctica before running my first so that I'd need to stay in the game. I didn't want to "just" run one and then bow out and have it be one of those "10 years ago I..." stories. I've never thought about it, but if I wasn't signed up for Antarctica I probably would be running at all now, let alone training for MCM. I had so many setbacks this winter, without another goal on the horizon it would have been much easier to throw in the towel.|
It works. I also had my eyes on my second one before my first one. Liz asked me the other day when I thought I wouldn't run these crazy things anymore and I replied, "When all my limbs are not working anymore" Meaning that if there is a way then I will be running. I have some short term goals and some mid range goals and an overall goal of 500 before I die. I only have 490 to go. Jimmy
Another quote by a guy I admire
"If he hits you and it hurts trun around and run. Live to fight another day"
Billy Shields (My Pops)
advice given to me when I was a kid. He said there is no reason to get your butt kicked when you can regroup and fight better the next day.LOL|
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."
~PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN
2,453 posts since
Aug 15, 2007
Another quote by a guy I admire
"If he hits you and it hurts trun around and run. Live to fight another day"
Billy Shields (My Pops)
advice given to me when I was a kid. He said there is no reason to get your butt kicked when you can regroup and fight better the next day.LOL|
Isn't that how you got your first 20 miler out of the way? Maybe that was more of a "If you think he's gonna hit you..."
I do today what you won't, so tomorrow I do what you can't.
In Training: Pittsburgh Triathlon | My Running Blog
3,887 posts since
Dec 15, 2007
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May 16, 2008 7:35 AM
in response to: DCtoPgh
Re: Running quotes
Yes Kat it was. I just wish I would have got in afew more miles and some bling out of the deal. LOL
Jimmy
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"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."
~PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN
3,732 posts since
Jan 23, 2008
I'd love to see Lauren's quote thread from last fall somehow brought over; there were lots of fun ones and several downright inspirational.
2,449 posts since
Nov 1, 2007
Favorite running quote:
"I have to thank ICE for introducing me to running. Had they not done that raid at work, I would have never ran so fast and felt how good it feels to run, thanks ICE".... j/k.
Screw Jane Fonda!!!
230 posts since
Aug 28, 2007
Not from anyone in particular, but good Marine running quotes:
"I'm not slow, I'm rear security"
And my favorite artillery quote, more of an anti-running quote:
"Don't bother running, you'll just die tired!"
Chris
I'm not slow, I'm rear security.
3,732 posts since
Jan 23, 2008
"Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage"
George Patton
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Confucius
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."
Booker T. Washington
622 posts since
Oct 16, 2007
"No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the shoes. More people finish marathons with no brains than with no shoes."
from Don Kardong (1976 Olympian)
414 posts since
Dec 4, 2007
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
Doug Larson.
Proud mom and Athena runner.
Kara (and Jman)
3,732 posts since
Jan 23, 2008
"No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the shoes. More people finish marathons with no brains than with no shoes."
from Don Kardong (1976 Olympian)
He also said sagely, "Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos."
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