“We all have bad days and bad workouts, when running gets ugly, when split times seem slow, when you wonder why you started. It will pass.”
"Different people have different reasons for racing, but one is simply the incentive to get out and run, increase mileage, and feel good."
- Hal Higdon
Motivation
"Different people have different reasons for racing, but one is simply the incentive to get out and run, increase mileage and feel good."
- Hal Higdon
Motivation
"Motivation remains key to the marathon: the motivation to begin; the motivation to continue; the motivation never to quit."
- Hal Higdon
Motivation
"You didn't beat me. You merely finished in front of me."
- Hal Higdon
Resilience
"You can run 5K races until your dresser drawers overflow with T-shirts, but it is not quite the same as going to the starting line of a marathon."
- Hal Higdon
Ambition
"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated."
- Maya Angelou
Resilience
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill
Resilience
"Criticism is the best sign you’re onto something."
- Michael Lopp
Resilience
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
- David Brinkley
Resilience
"We are really competing against ourselves. We have no control over how other people perform."
- Pete Cashmore
Resilience