Comments on: Sam Mussabini Wasn’t Talking To You

By: Reluctant Runner

Reluctant Runner — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:34:24 +0000

Well put. I often tell myself that though I may never be THE fastest, it shouldn’t stop me from trying to be MY fastest.

By: RunColo

RunColo — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:57:44 +0000

Funny.

My college CC coach once said and was even quoted in the paper as saying “Improve 1% every day”. Apparenty the paper even thought it was a good quote.

Not me, I kept thinking of a linear timeline and wondering how I would be running my fastest 8k when I am 70 years old.

By: Gymnotes

Gymnotes — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:46:47 +0000

This is just bizarre. My summer school class watched Chariots of Fire today. Freaky, man. Gymnotes's last blog post..and then there were two?

By: Viper

Viper — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:10:04 +0000

Hmm, perhaps this also explains why I have so much animosity. Viper's last blog post..The Puke Threshold

By: Blaine Moore (Run to Win)

Blaine Moore (Run to Win) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:34:45 +0000

I don't mind being referred to as a pig, if it makes you feel any better. Heheh. Blaine Moore (Run to Win)'s last blog post..Tyson Gay Updates

By: Sheamus

Sheamus — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:09:58 +0000

Good call. It’s slightly cliched now, but Steve Prefontaine said a lot of very positive things that can apply to all runners, including:

“Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, ‘I’ve never seen anyone run like that before.’ It’s more than just a race, it’s a style. It’s doing something better than anyone else. It’s being creative.”

“You have to wonder at times what you’re doing out there. Over the years, I’ve given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.”

and the classics:

“A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5,000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.”

“How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races? All my life people have been telling me, ‘You’re too small Pre’, ‘You’re not fast enough Pre’, ‘Give up your foolish dream Steve’. But they forgot something, I HAVE TO WIN.”

Sheamus’s last blog post..The Great British Weather (And My First 5K Time-Trial)