being an extreme sport, ultra-running lends itself to all sorts of creative, funny, and painfully true quotes. “you’re almost there!”, “looking good!”, “it’s all downhill from here!”, “aid station is just around the bend!”, are some common ones, but there are also jewels such as “it never always gets worse”, and “the race continued as i hammered up the trail, passing rocks and trees as if they were standing still”, as said red fisher on his wasatch front 100 experience in ’86. do you have any quotes (ultra related or not) that you would like to share?
ultra quotes
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Greg to Keira, Twin Peaks 50 miles, at around Mile 48:
“I just wanna get off this fucking mountain.”
i saw this printed on an ultra shirt – “any idiot can run a marathon, but it takes a special kind of idiot to run an ultra.”
training to be a special idiot soon
I have a page of favorites:
http://marshall.king.googlepages.com/ultra_quotes.html
Good blog. Keep up the good training!