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Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 900 Location: Hockley

"Those of us who finish near the back, make the rest of you look good."

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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

mikemoreton · Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 514 Location: Hockley, GORC.

MM1

Brilliant!!!
I knew I had my uses for being slow.

Regards

MM2

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 900 Location: Hockley

MM2 - remember the reply that any git makes to impugn our skills:

'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.'
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

gmike · Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 90 Location: Benfleet

"HURRY UP ...There's a train coming!!"

... Profound words of encouragement from Thursdays 'Downs' run

JBD · Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Posts: 182

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 900 Location: Hockley

“Common sense is necessary … more so than high tech. Race to the finish not race from the start, pace yourself, run your own race and don’t get sucked into someone else’s, walk when you need too, run when you can, eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we will hurt.” -Kevin Sayers
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 900 Location: Hockley

"Nothing is over until we say it is. Was it over when the Germans

> bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!" James "Bluto" Blutowski

Animal House one of the finest films......another thread perhaps?
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 900 Location: Hockley

“For what is the point of training but making pain seem routine? You work the body, yes, but the real point of training is to accustom the mind to endure discomfort: to know it, tolerate it and even, finally, to like it.”

Matt Seaton in Rouleur magazine
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 900 Location: Hockley

"It doesn't matter how slow you go, as long as you don't stop!" - Confucius
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

mikemoreton · Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 514 Location: Hockley, GORC.

Man with hand in pocket feel cocky all day - Confuscious

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 900 Location: Hockley

There are no limits.
There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
If it kills you, it kills you.
A man must constantly exceed his level.

Bruce Lee
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1577 Location: Rayleigh

"he who supports Spurs will always have a crappy Monday.."

up the hammers !

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 900 Location: Hockley

Damn you Karl.....
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 900 Location: Hockley

Mike, 2 basic facts !

No 1 : you need to be a hard bastard to finish this race
No 2 : you are a wimp if you cant !

Apart from being hit by Space Junk,Death or Life threatening injury you have no excuse not to finish.

love and kisses Ernie
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 900 Location: Hockley

Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called 'the love of your fate'. Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, 'This is what I need.' It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment - not discouragement - you will find the strength is there. Any disaster that you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow. Then, when looking back at your life, you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failures followed by wreckage were the incidents that shaped the life you have now. You'll see that this is really true. Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes." (Joseph Campbell 1904-87, American writer, anthropologist and philosopher
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 900 Location: Hockley

"If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do... the body is never tired if the mind is not tired."
-General George S. Patton
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.