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 Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:59 pm
post your quotes!
The start of a World Cross Country event is like riding a horse in the middle of a buffalo stampede. It's a thrill if you keep up, but one slip and you're nothing but hoof prints.
Ed Eyestone
Get out well, but not too quickly, move through the field, be comfortable. Strategy-wise, go with your strengths. If you don't have a great finish, you must get away to win. I've always found it effective to make a move just before the crest of a hill. You get away just a little and you're gone before your opponent gets over the top. Also, around a tight bend, take off like holy hell. I've done that a number of times. You should not be flying down the home straight. Most of your efforts should have been put forth earlier.
John Treacy, Ireland's two-time world cross country champion (1978, 1979)
- I always sprint the end and I work my butt off at the race thank you vert mcuh
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:59 pm
School cross country runs started because the rugby pitches were flooded. There was an alternative: extra studying. This meant there were plenty of runners on sports afternoons.
Gordon Pirie
When I was about 14 or 15, and running in a pretty muddy cross country race, one of my shoes stuck in the mud and came off. Boy, was I wild. To think that I had trained hard for this race and didn't do up my shoelace tightly enough! I really got aggressive with myself, and I found myself starting to pass a lot of runners. As it turned out, I improved something like twenty places in that one race. But I never did get my shoe back.
Rob de Castella
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:01 pm
We told our guys to hold on for 30 minutes of agony for 12 months of glory.
Coach John McDonnell, after Arkansas won the 1993 Ncaa Cross Country title
Cross Country is like poker. You have to be holding five good cards all the time.
Rollie Geiger, North Carolina State Coach
I prefer running without shoes. My toes didn't get cold. Besides, if I'm in front from the start, no one can step on them.
Michelle Dekkers, the barefoot South African runner who won the 1989 Ncaa cross country title for Indiana
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:01 pm
No one knows the fear in a front runner's mind more than me. When you set off at a cracking pace for four or five laps and find that your main rivals are still breathing down your neck, that's when you start to panic.
Ron Clarke
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:03 pm
As I stepped onto the track I felt my legs go rubbery. I saw over a 100,000 people in the stands, and before I knew it, I had collapsed onto the infield grass. "Can it be," I remembered thinking, as I lay there gazing up at the sky, "that I'm so nervous I'm not going to be able to run?" Then I realized how ridiculous I'd look, flat on my back on the grass as they started the race. I guess the humor of that image made me lose my nervousness. I was able to recover, get up and jog to the starting line.
Tom Courtney, on the moments before he won the Olympic 800m gold in Melbourne
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:04 pm
I have never been a killer. I'm not an aggressive personality and if I can remember any emotion I felt during a race it was fear. The greatest stimulator of my running was fear.
Herb Elliott
To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.
Jerome Drayton
Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting.
Veikko Karvonen, 1954 European and Boston Marathon Champ
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:06 pm
You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.
Frank Shorter
Running is like mouthwash; if you can feel the burn, it's working.
Brian Tackett
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:07 pm
Life is short... running makes it seem longer.
Baron Hansen
When people ask me why I run, I tell them, there's not really a reason, it's just the adrenalin when you start, and the feeling when you cross that finish line, and know that you are a winner no matter what place you got.
Courtney Parsons
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:08 pm
Running is one the best solutions to a clear mind.
Sasha Azevedo
You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation.
Arthur Lydiard
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Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:05 pm
Cool. Never realized how many quotes there were for running. o.O
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Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 6:35 pm
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.
-Steve Prefontaine
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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:44 pm
So I got bored and picked up my friends recent copy of Glamour and as I flipped through, there was a Nike ad that really struck me. Of course they're just trying to sell shoes, but there was a picture of a little sign on a laundromat washing machine saying "Gone running. Be back at (insert time)" On the reverse side of the paper (double sided ad--woah!) there was another picture of a sign saying:
If you think you'll have more time to run tomorrow, remember, you said that yesterday.
I tore that page out and put it on my bulletin board.
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Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:45 pm
kendretti So I got bored and picked up my friends recent copy of Glamour and as I flipped through, there was a Nike ad that really struck me. Of course they're just trying to sell shoes, but there was a picture of a little sign on a laundromat washing machine saying "Gone running. Be back at (insert time)" On the reverse side of the paper (double sided ad--woah!) there was another picture of a sign saying: If you think you'll have more time to run tomorrow, remember, you said that yesterday.I tore that page out and put it on my bulletin board. I really like that quote!
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Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 4:04 pm
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