Quotes About Athletics

Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault.

Everyone is built for running.

Distance running demands a brain-body connection that no other creature is capable of.

RUNNERS wearing top-of-the-line shoes are 123 percent more likely to get injured than runners in cheap shoes, according to a study led by Bernard Marti, M.D., a preventative-medicine specialist at Switzerland's University of Bern.

As a sport, most track coaches ranked ultras somewhere between competitive eating and recreational S&M.

Middle-aged women are likewise no strangers to the lead pack in ultramarathons. Pam Reed was forty-one when she outran all the men to win the 135-mile Badwater ultra across Death Valley in 2002; the following year, she returned and did it again. Diana Finkel was just shy of forty when she led for the first ninety miles of the brutally hard Hardrock 100, finishing second overall.

Runners in shoes that cost more than $95 were more than twice as likely to get hurt as runners in shoes that cost less than $40.

Wilt Chamberlain, all seven feet one inch and 275 pounds of him, had no problem running a 50-mile ultra when he was sixty years old after his knees had survived a lifetime of basketball.

Exercise only with the intention to carry out a physical gain or to triumph over competitors," Hébert believed, "is brutally egoistic.

as shoes wore down and their cushioning thinned, runners gained more foot control.

championships, and went on to break the U.S. record in distances from three miles to the marathon. At the 2004 Athens Games, Deena outlasted the world-record holder, Paula Radcliffe, to win the bronze, the first Olympic medal

Trenér Vigil se tedy pokoušel najít odpov?? na hlavní otázku: Byl Zátopek velký ?lov?k, který navíc náhodou b?hal, nebo byl takový, protože b?hal?

Sí, pero somos lentos". Estaban centrándose en la velocidad y no alcanzaban a entender que la resistencia podía ser una ventaja.»

I know as a shoe company, it's not the greatest thing to have a sponsored team not use your product, but people went thousands of years without shoes. I think you try to do all these corrective things with shoes and you overcompensate. You fix things that don't need fixing. If you strengthen the foot by going barefoot, I think you reduce the risk of Achilles and knee and plantar fascia problems.

need two hundred calories an hour. The trick is learning how to take in a little at a time, so you've got a steady drip of fuel without overwhelming your stomach. This'll be good practice.

The real mutants are the runners who don't get injured. Up to eight out of every ten runners are hurt every year. It doesn't matter if you're heavy or thin, speedy or slow, a marathon champ or a weekend huffer, you're just as likely as the other guy to savage your knees, shins, hamstrings, hips, or heels.

He started eating pinole for breakfast

Months later, I'd learn that iskiate is otherwise known as chia fresca—"chilly chia." It's brewed up by dissolving chia seeds in water with a little sugar and a squirt of lime. In terms of nutritional content, a tablespoon of chia is like a smoothie made from salmon, spinach, and human growth hormone.

Me doblé sobre la cuerda, agitando las piernas conforme lo arrastraba. Soltó la cuerda y salí disparado. «Bien —dijo—. Cada vez que corras, recuerda la sensación de la cuerda tensada. Ayudará a que mantengas los pies debajo de tu cuerpo, tus caderas dirigidas hacia delante y tus talones fuera de la imagen.» Eric

Como deporte, la mayoría de los entrenadores de atletismo colocaban a las ultramaratones en algún lugar entre las competencias de glotones y el sadomasoquismo recreativo.

Look how they point their toes down, not up, like gymnasts doing the floor exercise. And their backs! They could carry water buckets on their heads without spilling a drop! How many years have I been telling my kids to straighten up and run from the gut like that?).

I just don't think I'm built for running fifty miles," I said. "Everyone is built for running," he said.

Ultras are just eating and drinking contests, with a little exercise and scenery thrown in.

Coach Vigil believed you had to become a strong person before you could become a strong runner.