Quotes About Endurance

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

we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.

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.

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.

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.

You don't stop running because you get old, the Dipsea Demon always said. You get old because you stop running… .

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.

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.

Ultrarunners had no reason to cheat, because they had nothing to gain: no fame, no wealth, no medals. No one knew who they were, or cared who won their strange rambles through the woods.

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

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.

But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it, like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.

We say the rarájipari is the game of life," Ángel 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.

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

uno debe convertirse en una persona fuerte antes de convertirse en un corredor fuerte.

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.