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Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 891 Location: Hockley

"If Klingons were runners, they would be Ultrarunners."
- Bryan Hacker

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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'.

runningman · Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Posts: 119 Location: my office

Karl i know its you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1539 Location: Rayleigh

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http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/viewnews.php?id=86556

Submitted by Mj12 Mason: A UFO omitting a "yellow ray" has been seen across Western Iran,

....mmmm the plot thickens...who is MMASON ?

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 891 Location: Hockley

ok ok - I have had to lie to get out of a trip to Cologne just so I can get to the Club on Tuesday,,,,

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: 891 Location: Hockley

"I wasn’t a truly genuine trail ultrarunner until March 7, 1992 at the
Wild Oak 50 near Harrisonburg, Virginia. It was a rainy day and
simultaneously, while I was piddling on the run, chewing on an energy
bar and washing it down with Mountain Dew, my nose was dripping and I
farted. That was the ultimate defining moment in my trail running
career, if not my entire life."
- Bob Boeder

"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."
- George Sheehan

"Find the level of intolerance you can tolerate and stay there."
- David Horton

"Perhaps the genius of ultrarunning is its supreme lack of utility. It makes
no sense in a world of space ships and supercomputers to run vast distances
on foot. There is no money in it and no fame, frequently not even the
approval of peers. But as poets, apostles and philosophers have insisted
from the dawn of time, there is more to life than logic and common sense.
The ultra runners know this instinctively. And they know something else that
is lost on the sedentary. They understand, perhaps better than anyone, that
the doors to the spirit will swing open with physical effort. In running
such long and taxing distances they answer a call from the deepest realms of
their being -- a call that asks who they are ..."
- David Blaikie

"The best long distance runners eat raw meat, run naked and sleep in the snow."
- Alaska Airlines advertisement honoring Iditarod dogs (from Dana Roueche)

"Nobody should ever run a race where they are lapped by the sun."
- friend of Alex Swenson, referring to 100 mile races

"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, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the
slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether
you're a lion or a gazelle - when the sun comes up, you'd better
be running."
- Roger Bannister
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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: 891 Location: Hockley

"Unless you test yourself, you stagnate. Unless you try to go way
> beyond what you've been able to do before, you won't develop and grow.
> When you go for it 100%, when you don't have the fear of "what if I
> fail," that's when you learn. That's when you're really living." Mark
> Allen, world champion triathlete
>
> "If humans could really walk on water, we'd run across the oceans. But
> then again, some humans enter the water up to their ankles, some to
> their knees, some their waist. I'm a dive in kinda guy.. and these 100
> Mile races are my ocean. Amazed at how these green mountains of
> Vermont remind me of waves on the ocean.. I'll just have to dive right
> in and let the tide take me to magical lands." ~ "Sherpa" John Lacroix
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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: 1539 Location: Rayleigh

Ultra running hurts. A lot

Graham Booty
Benfleet Running Club
July 2007

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1539 Location: Rayleigh

Ernie · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 157 Location: Hockley GORC

A quote that should be for life in general but difficult to aspire to no matter how we hard we try.

"Nothing exceeds like Excess"

and another...

"I can never seem to run far enough"

Pat M · Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 215 Location: Canvey Island

Often the best loops are the untried ones. McMurphy Junior, taken from The McMurphy's Book of World Ultra Records!

Steffan · Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 537 Location: Basildon

Are we there yet?

cheers

Ernie · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 157 Location: Hockley GORC

Reply to Steffan...

I reckon fairly close !

Ernie · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 157 Location: Hockley GORC

Just when you think you have dug as deep as possible, you can go
DEEPER.

Scott Jurek

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 891 Location: Hockley

Brilliant Ernie - thanks mate. Point taken and will be remembered!!!

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'.