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Okay, maybe one final moral.

“Every quest is a journey, every journey a story. Every story, in turn, has a moral.”

Thank you for following this year. 365 morals. And still, wonder.

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

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Trial of Miles

“He wanted to impart some of the truths Bruce Denton had taught him, that you dont' become a runner by winning a morning workout. The only true way is to marshal the ferocity of your ambition over the course of many days, weeks, months, and (if you could finally come to accept it) years. The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials. How could he make them understand?”

John L Parker Jr. in Once a Runner

“A comfortable pace exceed the physical... Comfortable touches my entires person ... When I am comfortable, I am finally at home with myself. I am an animal happy in its habitat. I have said yes to myself and to life.”

George Sheehan

It’s about the sweat in your hair and the blisters on your feet.

“Its the frozen spit on your chin and the nausea in your gut. It’s about throbbing calves and cramps at midnight that are strong enough to wake the dead. It’s about getting out the door and running when the rest of the world is only dreaming about having the passion that you need to live each and every day with. It’s about being on a lonely road and running like a champion even when there’s not a single soul in sight to cheer you on. Running is all about having the desire to train and persevere until every fiber in your legs, mind, and heart is turned to steel. And when you’ve finally forged hard enough, you will have become the best runner you can be. And that’s all that you can ask for.”

- Paul Maurer

coming to the end of the year of this blog ... some foundational quotes.

Politicians and pundits talk about empowering women, but when you run, you FEEL it.

yes. from amy__bailey, quoting The Mother Runner.

but what if i love those things too. :(

He runs like a man who's just been stabbed in the heart.

a coach on Emil Zatopek

this could be a life philosophy

Prestige

“Prestige is just fossilized inspiration. If you do anything well enough, you’ll make it prestigious. Plenty of things we now consider prestigious were anything but at first. Jazz comes to mind—though almost any established art form would do. So just do what you like, and let prestige take care of itself.”

Paul Graham

still one of my favorites. a go-to whenever i get too deep in comparing myself to friends and acquaintances.

kayak for mental health

The Theory of Desirable Difficulty

I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 12:7-10

snapped from Malcolm Gladwell’s David and Goliath.

Running is...

The most natural extension of my inner voice.

;) preach.

“In many ways, a race is analogous to life itself. once it is over, it can not be re-created. All that is left are impressions in the heart, and in the mind.”

-Chris Lear

tons of action from Oiselle runners. It’s motivating, watching all the great performances.

Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4.

1.Get enough food to eat, and eat it. 2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there. 3.Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it. 4.

― Richard Brautigan

another author find from the reading on thursday. I have all my food treats lined up to help with recovery. may as well add some soul treats.

Sometimes you gotta get low just to get through

Atmosphere

bus to Portland to get PRP.

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