"I was excited to be hurting, and just embracing the pain, embracing the challenge, and just staying calm.” Jordan Hasay, after finish 3rd in the 2017 Chicago Marathon
September 29, 2017
"Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator, and spiritual communion."
- Lorraine Moller, Olympian, winner of the 1984 Boston Marathon
September 28, 2017
"You have to have a strong will to keep going. It's both relaxing and brutally frustrating."
- Prince Royce on training for the NYC Marathon
July 10, 2017
“Running around the world has taken me out of my introvert comfort zone and into a world of befriending strangers over a few quick miles.”
– Abby Oxborough, traveler and runner
July 7, 2017
“I believe in aging. And aging in a badass way.”
– Sarah Lesko, runner and family doctor
“I believe in aging. And aging in a badass way.”
– Sarah Lesko, runner and family doctor
July 6, 2017
“For me, that’s what drives me in running—because I love it. It makes me happy and it makes me laugh.”
– Ultrarunner Anna Frost
“For me, that’s what drives me in running—because I love it. It makes me happy and it makes me laugh.”
– Ultrarunner Anna Frost
July 5, 2017
“I love track running. There’s something about that red 400-meter circle that lets my brain switch off—no roads to cross, no bikes to watch out for.”
– Kate Carter, runner and journalist
“I love track running. There’s something about that red 400-meter circle that lets my brain switch off—no roads to cross, no bikes to watch out for.”
– Kate Carter, runner and journalist
“With running, you just have to go. You’re going to fall once in awhile, but you just have to get back up and keep going.”
– Earl Granville, U.S. Army veteran, who ran a marathon after losing his leg in Afghanistan
July 3, 2017
“There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as our running—and nothing quite so savage, and so wild.”
– Bernd Heinrich, biologist, author and runner
“There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as our running—and nothing quite so savage, and so wild.”
– Bernd Heinrich, biologist, author and runner
June 30, 2017
“Mostly up there, everything disappears. You don’t think about the past. You don’t think about the future.”
– Kilian Jornet, ultrarunner who summited Mount Everest in 26 hours without using supplemental oxygen or fixed ropes
June 29, 2017“Mostly up there, everything disappears. You don’t think about the past. You don’t think about the future.”
– Kilian Jornet, ultrarunner who summited Mount Everest in 26 hours without using supplemental oxygen or fixed ropes
“I do notice that a lot of the best thinking I get done, or ideas generation, or problem solving, happens when I’m running and trying to focus on stuff outside of my head.”
- Nicholas Thompson, marathoner and author
June 28, 2017
“Running can be a way to self-fulfilment. It has a purity, a power, a way of clearing the mind that few other activities possess.”
-Adharanand Finn, author of Way of the Runner
June 27, 2017“Some days are hard and some days are easier, but running has helped me to get through every day life.”
- Patrick Stover, who took second place at last Sunday's Kona Marathon
June 26, 2017
“Leave your shoes by the door and put them on and go out even if it’s only for 10 minutes. Start with a walk if that’s all you can do, even if it’s just to the mailbox.”
-Katherine Switzer's advice to older runners who are just getting started
June 26, 2017
“Leave your shoes by the door and put them on and go out even if it’s only for 10 minutes. Start with a walk if that’s all you can do, even if it’s just to the mailbox.”
-Katherine Switzer's advice to older runners who are just getting started
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