I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It’s much more important than your heart or legs.
I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving.
If you train your mind for running, everything else will be easy.
Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.
You have to want it, you have to plan for it, you have to fit it into a busy day, you have to be mentally tough, you have to use others to help you. The hard part isn’t getting your body in shape. The hard part is getting your mind in shape.
It’s not about speed and gold medals. It’s about refusing to be stopped.
In running, it doesn’t matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can’t lose this race because you’re not running against anyone else. You’re only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning.
Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don’t have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.
The most powerful lesson you can learn in running? You’re capable of much more than you think.
That’s the beauty of starting lines: Until you begin a new venture, you never know what awaits you.
To get to the finish line, you’ll have to try lots of different paths.
Too many people have refused to begin running or have quickly dropped out of running programs because they ‘have no talent for it.’ Ridiculous. Talent has nothing to do with it. The only thing that matters is mental discipline.
I’ve never known a runner who had as much patience as he needed.
Set a goal and a program for yourself, and everything else will follow. Guaranteed.
The true but rare runner’s high is a zone that we enter when everything seems to click perfectly, when time stands still, and when we can run almost without effort.
As we run, we become.