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Quotes About Running

Running isn't about making people buy stuff. Running should be free, man.
~ Christopher McDougall
Because if you don't think you were born to run, you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.
~ Christopher McDougall
more than 90 percent of the female runners come home with a buckle, while 50 percent of the men come up with an excuse. Not even Ken Chlouber can explain the sky-high female finishing rate, but he can damn well exploit it: "All my pacers are women," Chlouber says. "They get the job done.
~ Christopher McDougall
Nem?žeš b?hat do kopce a mít špatnou biomechaniku," vysv?tlil mi. "Prost? to nefunguje. Když se pokusíš s nap?ímenou nohou p?istát na patu, p?epadneš dozadu.
~ Christopher McDougall
Vigil couldn't quite put his finger on it, but his gut kept telling him that there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love running.
~ Christopher McDougall
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?
~ Christopher McDougall
Nep?estáváš b?hat proto, že zestárneš. Zestárneš, protože p?estaneš b?hat. (Dipsea Demon)
~ Christopher McDougall
Hoy en día, el doctor Hartmann cree que el mejor consejo para la prevención de lesiones es el que escuchó de boca de un entrenador que recomendaba «correr descalzo sobre césped húmedo tres veces a la semana». No
~ Christopher McDougall
she liked to tell them that running huge miles in the mountains was "very romantic." Gotcha. Grueling, grimy, muddy, bloody, lonely trail-running equals moonlight and champagne.
~ Christopher McDougall
Know why people run marathons? Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles, Starry Night, intravascular surgery; they all had their roots in our ability to run. Running was the superpower that made us human.
~ Christopher McDougall
The reason some people use their genetic gift for running and others don't is because the brain is a bargain shopper.
~ Christopher McDougall
V?l k?da Ledvilas le?enda ir su?u bar?bas magn?ts M?ršals Alriks, kurš uzlaboja savu skriešanas ?trumu, likdams ?irur?iski no?emt sev k?ju pirkstu nagus. " Tie t?pat man krita nost, " paskaidroja M?ršals.
~ Christopher McDougall
As nonchalant as he acted about the risks, Caballo was leading an extremely dangerous life. Every time he set out for a run, it could be his last.
~ Christopher McDougall
The Running Athlete, the definitive radiographic analysis of every conceivable running injury.
~ Christopher McDougall
running shoes may be the most destructive force to ever hit the human foot. Barefoot
~ Christopher McDougall
When I'm out on a long run," she continued, "the only thing in life that matters is finishing the run. For once, my brain isn't going blehblehbleh all the time. Everything quiets down, and the only thing going on is pure flow. It's just me and the movement and the motion. That's what I love—just being a barbarian, running through the woods.
~ Christopher McDougall
Daniels began filming elite athletes, and he noticed something fascinating: they all tended to run at about 180 steps per minute—ninety per leg—whether going fast or slow. To accelerate, they just lengthened their stride without changing that 180-beat rhythm. Daniels then turned his attention toward new runners, and found they typically had a much slower cadence, more like 160. The mistake these beginners were making, Daniels realized, was confusing quick with hard.
~ Christopher McDougall
Jenni ha sido una mujer dura desde entonces que corre millas y millas incluso en esos días en que la nieve cubre todo Idaho. Quizá, de alguna manera, esté automedicándose contra problemas profundamente arraigados, pero quizá (parafraseando a Bill Clinton) no había nada de malo en Jenni que no pudiera ser arreglado por lo que Jenni tenía de bueno.
~ Christopher McDougall
Vigil no acababa de dar en el clavo, pero su instinto le decía que había algún tipo de conexión entre la capacidad de amar y la capacidad de amar correr.
~ Christopher McDougall
Zatopek found a way to run so that when he won, every other teams were delighted.
~ Christopher McDougall
Experiment with your gears. Run slowly enough to sing as you go, then gradually pick up the pace until you can puff out only a few words at a time. Work your way up and down the gear range, mixing in a few short bursts so you remember what it feels like to go Full Burn.
~ Christopher McDougall
If there's any magic bullet to make human beings healthy, it's to run.
~ Christopher McDougall
Scott leaped and screamed, Jenn howled, Caballo hooted. The Tarahumara just ran.
~ Christopher McDougall
lot of foot and knee injuries that are currently plaguing us are actually caused by people running with shoes that actually make our feet weak, cause us to over-pronate, give us knee problems. Until 1972, when the modern athletic shoe was invented by Nike, people ran in very thin-soled shoes, had strong feet, and had much lower incidence of knee injuries.
~ Christopher McDougall