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Run Quotes by Christopher McDougall
- We were born to run; we were born because we run.
- If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.
- Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were…
- For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion.
- We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard and steady -…
- Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training their bodies to…
- Know why people run marathons? …Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles,…
- There's something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we're scared, we…
- He was onto something. Something huge. It wasn't just how to run; it was how to live, the essence of who we are as a…
- Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa,…
- Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You ran to eat…
- We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.
- But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it like easing your body into a hot bath, until…
- If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.
- But yeah, Ann [Trason] insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn't get it because they'd never broken through. For them, running…
- If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.
- When I'm out on a long run," she continued, "the only thing in life that matters is finishing the run. For once, my brain isn't…
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