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Svenska- Snart går solen ner. Sedan går den upp. Och så är det över.
(pragmatisk löpare kl. 15.00 under ett 24-timmarslopp som hade startat kl. 12.00)- Aldrig mer en mara!
(Gunilla Franzén, Växjö Marathon 2006 − Efter det har hon mycket riktigt "bara" sprungit 30 maror. Ovanpå sina tidigare 235)- Jag har aldrig låtit någon annan sätta upp gränser för mig. Jag har lärt mig att bara utgå från mig själv, att hitta min egen optimala väg framåt. Där jag rör mig är obanad terräng, det är ett äventyr, en upptäcktsresa. Där har ingen annan varit. Där är det bara jag själv som sätter gränserna. Och jag vill visa att ingenting är omöjligt.
(Johan Wissman)- Deras frihet var stor som livet självt.
(Marianne Fredriksson − Den som vandrar om natten)- Vi er gal!
(Eiolf Eyvindsen efter 85 km av Lapland Ultra 2007)- Vilken dåre som helst kan springa maraton. Men det krävs en särskild sorts dåre för att springa ultramaraton.
(Alan Cabelly - översatt)- Det är mindre än två maror kvar!
(Andreas Svensson kl 08.20 på ett 100 km-lopp som startade kl 07.00)- Det blir inte roligare än så här!
(Sebastian Lauterbach efter 9 tim o 53 minuters löpning på ett 100 km-lopp)- Jag är vegetarian, och jag åt köttbullar!
(Emelie Andersen beskriver efter målgång hur trött hon var under ett 100 km-lopp)- Det finns ingen timme som är kortare än den sista på ett ultralopp.
(Okänd)- Jag har bara ont på ett enda ställe. Kroppen.
(Andreas Bohlin, dagen efter sin 12 timmarsdebut)- Lidandet har en mening!
(Stefan Olsson efter 5 timmars och 14 minuters löpning av ett sextimmarslopp)- Jag fick ångest när jag kom till starten och förstod att vi skulle springa MEDsols!
(Lena M Johansson vid ultradebuten på sextimmars)- Vad jag har för vilopuls? Hur ska jag veta det, jag har aldrig vilat.
(Rune Larsson)- Gärna medalj, men först en rejäl kollaps.
(Rune Larsson)EngelskaÄr du en äkta ultrdistanslöpare? Kolla in följande USA-trail-influerade länk.
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The thrill of the chase,
The wind on your face;
Each soul has a goal to pursue.
...
A difficult run,
Gives new meaning to fun;
Or a search for that hard-to-find clue.
(från boken "Walking to Denver" av Alan Cook)
- It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
(Emil Zatopek)- A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.
(Emil Zatopek)- Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness.
(Dean Karnazes)- I sometimes think that running has given me a glimpse of the greatest freedom a man can ever know, because it results in the simultaneous liberation of both body and mind.
(Sir Roger Bannister)- Running is wonderful. It's the first and most profound expression of joy. When a child is happy, he runs; when two people are in love, they run into each others' arms. I run because it's what I am. It defines me.
(Haile Gebrselassie)- The secret to running long? If you focus on the short goals, it goes by pretty fast. If you concentrate hard enough, the day goes by pretty fast.
(Ann Trason)- Runners are wild. Jogger are runners who have been domesticated.
(P Izumi)- Any idiot can run a marathon, but it takes a special kind of idiot to run an ultramarathon!
(Alan Cabelly)- The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep
Etc
(Robert Frost)- The reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)- If you’re feeling good, don’t worry. You’ll get over it.
(Murphy's Law − Boling’s postulate)- Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
(Arnold Schwarzenegger)
- The experts are always telling us to 'Listen to your body!'
But if I listened to my body, I'd live on toffee pops and port wine.
Don't tell me to listen to my body... It's trying to turn me into a blob!
(Roger Robinson, master runner)- When it's pouring rain and you're bowling along through the wet, there's satisfaction in knowing you're out there and the others aren't.
(Peter Snell, runner)- Whether you believe you can do something or you believe you can't; you're right.
(Okänd)- Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
(John Wooden)- Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must move faster than the lion or it will not survive.
Every morning a lion wakes up and it knows it must move faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve.
It doesn't matter if you are the lion or the gazelle, when the sun comes up, you better be moving.
(Maurice Greene)- The thing I don't like about Western States is that you show up at the starting line in the best shape of your life and a day later you are in Auburn in the worst shape of your life.
(Andy Black)- The human body can endure a lot of mistreatment; it's the mind that is truly fragile.
(Okänd)- Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, "WOW! What a ride!”
(Okänd)- My doctor told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already.
(Milton Berle)- You are tougher than you think you are!
(Ken Chlouber)
- It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
(Theodore Roosevelt, Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910)If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
….
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'
….
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
….
(William Shakespeare (King Henry the Fifth) )
If we are mark'd to drop out, the miles are not enow
To do our body loss; and if to finish,
The more miles, the greater share of honour.
God's will! I pray thee, wish not one mile less.
(Cecilia Petersson, fritt efter William Shakespeare)
