Joe Henderson Quotes

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• I feared the verdict of the watch, where I either lost the race against time that day or would lose it soon by making the…
• In fact, the bandits steal the drinks and assistance provided along the course. Worse, they cross the finish line and mess up the scoring of…
• Speed eventually neared its peak. The records forced me to work ever harder to drop a less and less time. These time trials came to…
• That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile.
• The hours, minutes and seconds stand as visible reminders that your effort put them all there. Preserve until your next run, when the watch lets…
• The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is…
• The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next…
• The results would have stayed on the watch face until the batteries died. But trying to make time stand still this way would have been…
• They trained mostly by time periods, checking their pace for known distance only on special occasions.
• This act demonstrates graphically a turning away the past and moving ahead. You now get to refresh your time in a friendly way by running…
• A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.
• Buzz has reduced my range. Running safely with him means using fewer and shorter routes, with multiple laps per day or multiple returns there per…
• His name, Buzz, fits. He can buzz along at 40 miles an hour when his genetic memory moves him.
• Yet the home courses are where you spend dozens to hundreds of hours a year. You must choose them well.
• A lesser but still fundamental rule of racing is that you properly enter the event. Anyone who doesn't but still insists on running interferes with…
• I've lived nearby since 1981 and probably have averaged one run a week there. That's more than 1000 repetitions, and I have yet to tire…
• Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through…
• Ours is a life of constant reruns. We're always circling back to where we'd we started, then starting all over again. Even if we don't…
• That's how most of us would feel. But the sport has a few deviants without consciences.
• The Chip also reduces the damage done by bandits. They still steal drinks and cheers along the course, but no longer scramble the paying runners'…

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