Speedwork Running Quotes & Sayings

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. — Winston S. Churchill

Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine. — Oswald Chambers

If you put down a good, solid foundation and build one room after another, pretty soon you have a house. You build in your speedwork, your pace and increase your ability to run races and think races out. Then it's possible to run the way we do. — Rod Dixon

Snakes are sick. — Alexis Knapp

The world as it was had no room for her. — Irin Carmon

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now. — Ben Kingsley

Even for runners who never make the transition to more sophisticated workouts, easing into speedwork will lead to more enjoyable running. — Don Kardong

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. — Woody Allen

The speech she made was done in the back, alone, like little shoes cobbled by an elf: spider is to web as weaver is to blank. That one was hers. She was proud of that. Also, blank is to heartache as forest is to bench. But — Lorrie Moore

No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating. — Walther Nernst

Speedwork is terribly overrated! I remember talking to runners after distance races and someone is sure to say they were able to run fast off base work with no speed work at all. The truth is speedwork doesn't work. Lots of miles, and then fast miles gets you there much quicker than speed work. — Gerry Lindgren

My fake weekend has begun. I always take Tuesday off, unless my rent is due and I need to pick up some extra cash. I always take Thursday off, too. I have two fake weekends and one real weekend per week. Sometimes I wish there were eight days in a week just so I could squeeze in an extra weekend. But we all have our crosses to bear. — Gary Reilly

Train at the same pace day after day, week after week, year after year, and that's the kind of running the body adapts to. But break out of that comfort zone with a little speedwork now and then, and the body will learn to deal with the new demands. — Don Kardong

The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did. — Junipero Serra

Battle not with Hello Kitty lest ye become Hello Kitty; and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you with huge eyes and a helpless disposition. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression. — John Harvey-Jones

If you don't believe in God, then the God concept is a great placeholder for everything we don't know, which is exponentially more than we do know. — Bryant McGill

Beginning runners come in all shapes, sizes and pre-existing conditions, so there's no magic formula for determining exactly how much basic running is needed before you start speedwork. Most experts, though, recommend three or four months of preparation. — Don Kardong

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding. — Karl Jaspers

I felt so stupid and young, and at the same time something was cracking open inside me, or maybe it was the world was cracking open to show me something really important underneath. I knew I was only seeing a tiny bit of it, but it was bigger than anything I'd ever seen or felt before. — Ruth Ozeki