Cross Country Running☻

Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new beginnings. 

 — Amby Burfoot

Our running shoes have magic in them- the power to transform a bad day into a good day; frustration into speed; self-doubt into confidence; chocolate cake into muscle.

Running is life with the volume up.

A day without strides is like a day without sunshine.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

I ran to be free; I ran to avoid pain; I ran to feel pain; I ran out of love and hate and anger and joy.

Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.

Stadiums are for spectators.  We runners have nature and that is much better.

Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.

Hills. We love them. We hate them. They make us strong. They make us weak. Today I chose to embrace hills.

Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running.

Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

I'm a distance runner. I've been trained to keep going, even when it's hard, when it hurts, when it sucks, when I don't want to. I look past it. Relentless forward progress to the finish. Call it what you want; stubbornness, endurance, determination, guts. Deep down, I don't know how to give up. And it's always worth it in the end.

Remember, the feeling you get from a good run is far better than the feeling you get from sitting around wishing you were running.