Quotes About Endurance

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.

Ejemplo clásico:Steve Prefontaine.Pre aceleró demasiado rápido dos veces en la misma carrera en las olimpiadas de 1972;las dos veces lo alcanzaron. Llegado el último tramo, Pre no había guardado combustible y cayó hasta el cuarto puesto, lo que hizo que se quedase sin medalla. Esa derrota histórica grabó a fuego la lección: nadie pierde el puesto de perseguidor si no se ve obligado a ello. A menos que seas tonto o imprudente, o a menos que seas Gari Kasparov. En

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,

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".

Christopher McDougall

Christopher McDougall

Hay algo realmente extraño en nosotros los humanos; no solo somos realmente buenos en carreras de resistencia, lo somos durante períodos de tiempo extremadamente largos. Somos máquinas hechas para correr. Y la máquina nunca se desgasta. «Uno

Uno no deja de correr porque se hace viejo —decía siempre el Demonio de Dipsea—, uno se hace viejo porque deja de correr…» —Y

Cuando estoy metida en una carrera larga, lo único que importa en esta vida es terminar la carrera. Por una vez, mi cabeza no está diciendo bla bla bla bla todo el tiempo. Todo se calma y fluye. Soy solo yo y el desplazamiento y el movimiento.

For inspiration," the article noted, "he repeats a saying of the Tarahumara Indians: 'When you run on the earth and run with the earth, you can run forever.'

Scott was a hero for a very different reason among back-of-the-packers too slow to see him in action. After winning a hundred-mile race, Scott would be desperate for a hot shower and cool sheets. But instead of leaving, he'd wrap himself in a sleeping bag and stand vigil by the finish line. When day broke the next morning, Scott would still be there, cheering hoarsely, letting that last, persistent runner know he wasn't alone.

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.

Big shots are just little shots that keep shooting.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Life, as parents know, can be supported on very little sleep.

He had come to the conclusion that children are tougher and more enduring than Dr. Holt will admit; and that a little carelessness in matters of hygiene and sterilization does not necessarily mean instant death.

Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.

There comes a time when you're losing a fight that it just doesn't make sense to keep on fighting. It's not that you're being a quitter, it's just that you've got the sense to know when enough is enough.

Just like when there's a time that a smart person knows enough is enough, there's a time when you know you've got to fight.

Hoping is such hard work. It tires you out and you never seem to get any kind of reward. Hoping feels like you're a balloon that has a pinhole that slowly leaks air.

his sermons go on so long that some of the time you feel like begging, "Take me now, Jesus," 'bout halfway through 'em.