Quotes About Running

You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running or you wouldn't live to love anything else.

Before setting out for their sunset runs, Jenn and Billy would snap a tape of Allen Ginsberg reading "Howl" into their Walkman. When running stopped being as fun as surfing, they had agreed, they'd quit. So to get that same surging glide, that same feeling of being lifted up and swept along, they ran to the rhythm of Beat poetry.

Ken estaba convencido de que había redescubierto un arte milenario, así que llamó a su estilo Running Evolution

We've lulled ourselves into believing that in an emergency, someone else will always come along to rescue us. We've stopped relying on our own wonderfully adaptable bodies; we've forgotten that we can think, climb, leap, run, throw, swim, and fight with more versatility than any other creature on the planet.

When you run on the earth and run with the earth, you can run forever.'

Eric me había recomendado que iniciara mi viaje a la prehistoria yendo a Virginia para aprender bajo la tutela de Ken Mierke, un fisiólogo del ejercicio además de triatleta campeón mundial, a quien su distrofia muscular obligaba a reducir al mínimo, a la esencia misma, su estilo de correr. «Soy la prueba viviente del sentido del humor de Dios —le gusta decir a Ken—.

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.

Zatopek found a way to run so that when he won, even other teams were delighted.

Just move your legs. Because if you don't think you were born to run, you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

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. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you got, being patient and forgiving and undemanding.

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?).

Running is just a controlled fall, so how do you steer and keep from smacking down on your face without a weighted rudder, like a kangaroo's tail?

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

A la segunda semana, Eric ya estaba enviándome a hacer recorridos de dos horas; su único consejo era que me mantuviera atento a la técnica y mantuviera un ritmo relajado, lo suficiente para que pudiera respirar a ratos con la boca cerrada (cincuenta años atrás, Arthur Lydiard dio un consejo equivalente aunque opuesto para controlar el pulso cardíaco y el ritmo: «No corras tan rápido que no puedas mantener una conversación»).

We were born to run; we were born because we run. We're all Running People, as the Tarahumara have always known.

Running was the superpower that made us human—which means it's a superpower all humans possess.

Then they were up and gone, hard on Johnny Sandoval's heels. By the time Ann Trason arrived at the aid station, Martimano Cervantes and Juan Herrera were out of sight.

If you keep just close enough for it to see you, it will keep sprinting away. After about ten or fifteen kilometers' worth of running, it will go into hyperthermia and collapse." Translation: if you can run six miles on a summer day then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.

Perhaps all our troubles—all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome—began when we stopped living as Running People.

Antes de empezar a correr largas distancias, los tarahumaras se hacen fuertes. Y si tenía intenciones de mantenerme sano, me advirtió Eric, yo debía hacer lo mismo. Así que en lugar de estirar antes de echar a correr, me ponía a hacer ejercicios. Tijeras, flexiones de pecho, sentadillas, abdominales;

Correr fue el superpoder que nos hizo humanos, lo que significa que es un superpoder que todos los seres humanos poseen. —Entonces,

Sabe por qué la gente corre maratones?», le dijo al doctor Bramble. Porque correr se encuentra arraigado en nuestra imaginación colectiva, y nuestra imaginación se halla arraigada en correr. El lenguaje, el arte, la ciencia; los transbordadores espaciales, La noche estrellada de Van Gogh, la cirugía intravascular; todo tiene su origen en nuestra capacidad para correr.

Christopher McDougall

Christopher McDougall