Quotes About Perseverance

Hazte amigo del dolor, y nunca te encontrarás solo. KEN CHLOUBER, Minero de Colorado y creador de Leadville Trail 100

Christopher McDougall

Meanwhile, in Boston, Running While Female was literally a crime: any woman who dared attempt the Boston Marathon in the 1960s was subject to arrest by the cops or, if your dad was in charge, a beating. "If that girl were my daughter, I would spank her," race director Will Cloney famously snarled after Kathrine Switzer finagled her way onto the course in 1967.

Here were these little guys wearing sandals who never actually trained for the race. And they blew away some of the best long-distance runners in the world.

Así que Louis tuvo que aprender a sobrevivir comiendo ligero a lo largo de todo el día en lugar de llenarse con grandes comidas, a no permitirse estar sediento, como si todos los días se encontrara en medio de una carrera en marcha. El

We say the rarajipari is the game of life, Angel said. You never know how hard it will be. You never know when it will end. You can't control it. You can only adjust.

Scott Jurek resumió el credo no oficial de los Jóvenes Pistoleros con una cita de William James que usaba para cerrar todos los emails que enviaba: «Más allá de lo extremo de la fatiga y el sufrimiento, encontramos cantidades de alivio y poder que nunca habíamos soñado con poseer; fuentes de fortaleza nunca antes puestas a prueba porque nunca habíamos empujado la puerta de oclusión». Conforme

Christopher McDougall

Ultra god Scott Jurek summed up the Young Guns' unofficial creed with a quote from William James he stuck on the end of every e-mail he sent: "Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction." As

Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction.

Ann knew she needed more than willpower: she needed fear. Once she was out front, every cracking twig would spur her toward the finish. "To move into the lead means making an act requiring fierceness and confidence," Roger Bannister once noted. "But fear must play some part … no relaxation is possible, and all discretion is thrown to the wind.

Here's the truth," Eric said. "You've got zero margin of error. But you can do it." I'd have to forget everything I knew about running and start over from the beginning. "Get ready to go back in time," Eric said. "You're going tribal.

All my pacers are women," Chlouber says. "They get the job done.

while Jack Kirk—a.k.a. "the Dipsea Demon"—was still running the hellacious Dipsea Trail Race at age ninety-six. The race begins with a 671-step cliffside climb, which means a man nearly half as old as America was climbing a fifty-story staircase before running off into the woods. "You don't stop running because you get old," said the Demon. "You get old because you stop running.

Ask nothing from your running, in other words, and you'll get more than you ever imagined.

it's like in life, you have obstacles and you train to overcome them. You search for the best technique. You keep the best, you repeat it, and then you get better.

I didn't love running, but I wanted to.

Christopher McDougall

Even Cliff Young, the sixty-three-year-old farmer who stunned Australia in 1983 by beating the best ultrarunners in the country in a 507-mile race from Sydney to Melbourne, did it all on beans, beer, and oatmeal ("I used to feed the calves by hand and they thought I was their mother," Young said. "I couldn't sleep too good those nights when I knew they would get slaughtered." He switched to grains and potatoes, and slept a whole lot better. Ran pretty good, too).

Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.

Don't fight the trail, take what it gives you. If you have a choice between one step or two between rocks, take three.

Mira, tengo malas noticias —dijo—. No vas a ganar. Sin importar lo que hagas, vas a estar ahí fuera todo el día. Así que lo mejor será que te relajes, te tomes tu tiempo y lo disfrutes. Quédate con esto en la cabeza: si sientes que requiere demasiado esfuerzo, es que estás esforzándote más de la cuenta.

Eric creía que lo peor que uno podía hacer con un corredor a media carrera era darle falsas esperanzas. Lo que te hace tensar los músculos es aquello que no esperas; pero mientras sepas a qué atenerte, puedes relajarte y reducir o aumentar la intensidad según lo requiera el esfuerzo.

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.