Quotes from Jeff Galloway

To finish will leave you feeling like a champion and positively change your life.

Everyone has stress. A good run may not erase it, but it can reduce the effect and allow runners to gain control.

Think chest/hips/ push, or CHP, when it's time for uphill running. Chest up, hips forward, push strongly off each foot.

Being an athlete is a state of mind which is not bound by age, performance or place in the running pack.

The label of marathoner has, from the beginning, been awarded to those who went the distance under their own power, whether they ran, walked, crawled or tiptoed. When you cross that finish line, you've entered an elite group. About one-tenth of one percent of the population has done it. Don't let anyone take that great achievement away from you.

Rehearsals become patterns of behavior more easily if you don't think but just move from one action to the next. The power of the rehearsal is that you have formatted your brain for a series of actions so that you don't have to think as you move from one action to the next. As you repeat the pattern, revising it for real life, you become what you want to be.

To reach the finish line in a marathon is to enter an elite group: only about one-tenth of 1 percent of the population does it.

those with the right Run-Walk-Run adjustments are strong to the finish. They are the "passers" not the passees" during the last few miles—which is very empowering.

Many runners in the 12-16 minute pace range have reported running 60+ minutes faster in the marathon or 30+ minutes faster in the half marathon when they switched to R/W/R.

If you wait until the spirit moves you to run, you will probably have many empty spaces in your training journal. You must also be in charge of the little things that keep the schedule filled—such as spending a few minutes a week to plan your weekly runs, and to reward yourself afterward.

We are designed to run and we increase our chance of daily happiness when we do so.

The more you frame the marathon as a stressful experience, the more negative messages you'll receive. But it's just as easy to frame it as a positively challenging journey.