“Concentrate! You’re alone but you’re not finished. You’re alone because you earned it. You can do this and they can’t. You are one tough bastard. Say that over again and say it slow. Say it one word at a time. You, are, one, tough, bastard. I love these […]

“Do you think we were supposed to turn back there?” -Skip Eastman at Mackenzie River 50
“If you see a fork in the road, take it!” -Yogi Berra
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“Running fast requires conditioning your body, absorbing proper mechanics to the point where they’re second nature, and then forgetting the details and letting it rip. It may sound funny to someone who hasn’t been there, but the more you can let go, the faster you can go. Look at films of Mohammad Ali in […]

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; […]

“Don’t fear moving slowly forward … fear standing still.” -Kathleen Harris
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“Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory.” -Mahatma Gandhi
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“Running in the mountains (or any natural environment) provides me with an avenue through which to experience the powerful presence of life. In this sense, for me, it is a necessary means of spiritual growth that I simply cannot feel satisfied without.” -Tony Kupricka
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“We really weren’t meant to run on pavement and concrete. Being on the trail, in terms of how your brain and body reacts, it’s almost like instinct. Nowadays, we just hop into a car. But locomotion, whether walking, hiking or running, is really what we were meant to do.” -Scott Jurek
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“It’s hard not to admire trail runners - restless, amped-up joggers whose chosen activity demonstrates their elevated sense of aesthetics, their gleeful embrace of absurdist aerobic challenges and their propensity for recreational self-abuse. This is a valiant, nutty tribe that finds no heartbreak in the hills.” -Terry Wood
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“It is to step one foot after another deeper into the earth, while becoming part. It is to break the laws of physics while flying between 20,000 brief landings. It is to float across the land, to take deep breaths of nature, and to be acutely aware of one’s surroundings.” -Casey McGuire in Make Excuses […]