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.

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"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

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"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