"mar'a-thon, n. [From the Battle of Marathon, 490 B.C.] A long-distance race; a 26-mile foot race; an endurance test." - Dictionary
"Just cover it." - Hal
"Let's make Hal proud..." - Cobes
"One of the greatest moments in running is about trying to find the next gear, then finally finding it, and realizing that the force behind it is you." - Matt
"You don't have to see, just RUN!" - Colleen (spoken when Matt was complaining of the snow hitting his eyes)
"I can't believe I just ate 18 inches of Subway sandwiches." - Toid (after a training run)
"We aren't jogging, we're running." - Cobes
"I'm going to miss my Taco Bell." - Matt (realizing Taco Bell isn't very conducive to running)
"How did my body do that?" - Co (after beating her PR time around her pond by over a minute)
"Short, but strenuous. One hill." - Boulder Trail Guidebook (however, that "one hill" is gigantic with serious avalanche potential)
"Running a marathon may be starting to consume your life when: a) it influences the type of underwear you wear b) you plan your meals, showers, and naps around running c) you have to adjust the work out schedule in order to party d) im sure ill think of more tomorrow... when im running." - Co
"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible." - Doug Larson
"I am glad to hear that I make you sweat." - Colleen
"Do you require helmets?" - Cobes, when trying to figure out what a safe cross training activity with Matt would be, followed by, "Matt - this is serious! We are training for a marathon here!"
"You don't have to have the lead if you have the courage to come from behind." - unknown
"I don't train. I just run my 3-15 miles a day." - Jack Foster
"Out running. Yes, I know there is snow on the ground. Yes, I know it's continuing to snow. Yes, I know running is used in every other sport as a discipline technique, otherwise known as punishment. Yes, I know every hour I run my feet will raise and lower 5,000 times. But yet, there's something about it, that get's me back out there on the trail again...Man vs. Nature? No, it's not like that. More like Man vs. Man...and that man is myself." - Matt
Someone once came up to Duncan MacDonald and said: "I saw you on television and read about you in the newspapers. How do you do it?" MacDonald answered: "I don't watch television and I don't read the papers."
"Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win." - Tom Fleming
"Everyone should run a marathon at least once in their life..." - Jamie
"There is only so much clothing you can shed without getting arrested." - Hal
"I got smoked." - Toid
"I can hold on for an hour of agony, for 18 weeks of glory." - Matt
"You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming." - Frank Shorter
"We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon." - Emil Zatopek
"A marathon is like life with its ups and downs, but once you've done it you feel that you can do anything." - Unknown
"Maybe I shouldn't have had breakfast at Denny's." - Jordan Kent (who vomited after running the 400 meters in the 2002 USA Junior National Championships held in Eugene, OR)
"Why aren't you signed up for the 401K? I'd never be able to run that far." - Scott Adams, Dilbert (4/2/01)
"If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record." - Unknown
"Thank God, it's over." - Neil Cusack, 1974 marathon winner
"If the hill has its own name, then it's probably a pretty tough hill." - Marty Stern
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