Quotes About Endurance

Who is ultimately stronger? The answer is undetermined.

For every runner who hits the wall because of his or her failure to consume enough carbohydrate during the race, there are several who hit the wall because of their failure to consume enough carbs in their everyday training diet. To

Because you never know exactly what you'll find inside that black box until you open it, there is a temptation to hope—perhaps not quite consciously—that your next race won't be one of those grinding affairs. This hope is a poor coping skill. Bracing yourself—always expecting your next race to be your hardest yet—is a much more mature and effective way to prepare mentally for competition.

discovered that world-class athletes in the full suite of endurance sports share a common training approach. Specifically, they spend about 80 percent of their total training time at low intensity and the other 20 percent at moderate to high intensity.

The reason you are a runner is that you enjoy running. The objective of everything you do as a runner should be to increase our preserve your enjoyment of running.

Endurance sports are largely about discomfort and stress; hence they are largely about coping.

Even most training errors, such as overtraining, originate in the fear of suffering.

In a race, the job of the muscles is to perform. The job of the mind is to cope.

The muscles can only perform to the degree that the mind is able to cope. Endurance sports are therefore a game of "mind over muscle.

You don't become a runner by winning a morning workout. The only true way is to marshal the ferocity of your ambition over the course of many day, weeks, months, and (if you could finally come to accept it) years. The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials.

To become the best athlete you can be, you need to become really good at coping with the characteristic forms of discomfort and stress that the endurance sports experience dishes out, beginning with perceived effort and extending to the many challenges that are secondary to it, such as fear of failure.

My own term for a highly developed overall coping capacity in endurance sports is mental fitness.

There is an emerging consensus among exercise scientists that runners and other endurance athletes invariably encounter a limit to how much suffering they are willing to tolerate before they encounter any hard physical limit (such as their true VO2max

Depression is also smaller than you. Always, it is smaller than you, even when it feels vast. It operates within you, you do not operate within it. It may be a dark cloud passing across the sky but - if that is the metaphor - you are the sky. You were there before it. And the cloud can't exist without the sky, but the sky can exist without the cloud.

Life is waiting for you. You might be stuck here for a while, but the world isn't going anywhere. Hang on in there if you can. Life is always worth it.

You have survived everything you have been through, and you will survive this too. Stay for the person you will become. You are more than a bad day, or week, or month, or year, or even a decade. You are a future of multifarious possibility. You are another self at a point in future time looking back in gratitude that this lost and former you held on. Stay.

Living with anxiety, turning up, and doing stuff with anxiety takes a strength most people will never know.

Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn't give up. Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn't give up. Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn't give up. Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn't give up.

There will be other days. And other feelings.

Pain is a debt paid off with time.

When things are taken from us, the stuff that remains has more value.

Stamina is essential to stay focused in a life filled with distraction. It is the ability to stick to a task when your body and mind are at their limit, the ability to keep your head down, swimming in your lane, without looking around, worrying who might overtake you . .

Everyone has a limit - a point at which they can't take any more - and, almost out of nowhere, I had reached mine.

Pressure makes us, though. You start off as coal and the pressure makes you a diamond.