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Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 948 Location: Hockley

Whatever does not kill me will make me stronger (Nietzsche)

A child of Five would understand this. Send for a child of Five (G Marx)

Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped (G Marx)

What the F@@@ was that (Mayor of Hiroshima)

Make mine a double (K Cadman)

rgds

Mike

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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: 1679 Location: Rayleigh

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 948 Location: Hockley

Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win."
- Tom Fleming's Boston Marathon training sign on his wall

"Running is a lot like life. Only 10 percent of it is exciting. 90 percent of it is slog and drudge."
- Dave Bedford, English distance runner who occasionally put in 200 miles a week in training
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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: 1679 Location: Rayleigh

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 948 Location: Hockley

"Suffering is our non-acceptance to what is" -Buddha

"Without difficulties life would be like a stream without rocks or curves" -Tao of Pooh

"If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having." -- Henry Miller

rgds

Mike
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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'.

Stress Head · Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 55 Location: Benfleet

A personal best is a moving target,
It never lets you bask in it's glory,
And it never lets you take the rest of the week off.
Because the moment you get there, is the moment the next run starts.

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 948 Location: Hockley

Pain is temporary. Quitting is forever.
--Lance Armstrong
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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: 1679 Location: Rayleigh

Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we need to be taught that.

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 948 Location: Hockley

If at first you don't suceed, so much for sky-diving!

Repartee is what you wish you had said.

I hate to spread rumours but what else can you do with them?

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
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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: 1679 Location: Rayleigh

Don't give me this Star Trek crap, it's too early in the morning.

(Lister - Red Dwarf)

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 948 Location: Hockley

"You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming." - Frank Shorter
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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: 1679 Location: Rayleigh

"If you want to win something, run the 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run the marathon."

Embarassed

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1679 Location: Rayleigh

"It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not
to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is
against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit."

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 948 Location: Hockley

'At my command unleash hell......' Maximus Gladiator
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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'.

mikey · Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:07 pm Post subject:

No matter how motivating the quotation - Actions speak louder than words : Mike E Jordan

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1679 Location: Rayleigh

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 948 Location: Hockley

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. ~John Locke

Well done is better than well said. ~Benjamin Franklin

Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. ~Italian Proverb

After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done. ~Author Unknown

The shortest answer is doing. ~Lord Herbert

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. ~Alfred Adler

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. ~Frank Tibolt

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. ~Arnold Glasow
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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: 1679 Location: Rayleigh

The only thing that helps me maintain my slender grip on reality is the friendship I share with my collection of singing potatoes.

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 948 Location: Hockley

Ah for God's sake Karl where the hell did that come from - source name please.....
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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'.

jacklarge · Joined: 11 Aug 2006 Posts: 239 Location: Rayleigh, Essex

MM,

Karl's in Red Dwarf mode. I think it was another quote from Holly (see my sig).

Cheers,

John.
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"As the days go by, we face the increasing inevitability that we are alone in a godless, uninhabited, hostile and meaningless universe. Still, you've got to laugh, haven't you?"

- Holly, ships computer, Red Dwarf

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1679 Location: Rayleigh

Karl's in post-marathon high syndrome.

Wait till Tuesday when my endorphines hit rock bottom.....

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 948 Location: Hockley

John, thanks - I found it on Google......

Karl, you are a sad git...

rgds

Mike
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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'.

jacklarge · Joined: 11 Aug 2006 Posts: 239 Location: Rayleigh, Essex

No problem. Haven't had a post marathon high yet so this is about as motivational a quote as I can muster:

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 948 Location: Hockley

If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken Him completely by surprise. ~P.Z. Pearce

rgds

Mike
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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'.

mikey · Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:46 am Post subject:

It's better to lead by example, than lead from the front ~ Mike E Jordan

"A beginners guide to group running "

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1679 Location: Rayleigh

When English Poet Walter Savage Landor said..

"Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering."

...he was talking about going AWOL at a Benfleet Marshall spot, except he was wrong about there being no suffering !

Twisted Evil

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1679 Location: Rayleigh

Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Max Depree

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 948 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

rgds

Mike
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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: 948 Location: Hockley

"Running is a big question mark that’s there each and every day. It asks you, ‘Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?'" - Peter Maher
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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: 1679 Location: Rayleigh

The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales.

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1679 Location: Rayleigh

And it was morning.
And i found myself mourning
For a childhood that i thought had disappeared

Graham · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 239

Last one back to the club house is buying.

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 948 Location: Hockley

Graham - Excellent way of improving everybody's PB's I would say......I would have to add 'and the biscuits are on me.....' of course

rgds

Mike
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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: 1679 Location: Rayleigh

Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

Joanna Field

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 948 Location: Hockley

This is brilliant:

"Why couldn't Pheiddipedes have died at 20 miles?."
- Frank Shorter, 1970
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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: 948 Location: Hockley

More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the widsom to choose correctly....
Woody Allen
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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'.