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"The best long distance runners eat raw meat, run naked and sleep in the snow."- Alaska Airlines advertisement honoring Iditarod dogs
 
"There's nothing better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve." I don't know who said it, but its profound!

"I always loved running...it is something you can do by yourself, and under your own power. You can go in any direction, as fast or slow as you want, fighting the wind if you feel like it, seeing new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs." Jesse Owens.

"Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air.  No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize."  The Apostle Paul in 1Corinthians 9:26-27 (NIV). 

"You're the strongest woman I know Mama." Shane Turner, my son when he was 6 years old.

"...let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus..." Hebrews 12:1 (KJV).

"Bid me run and I will strive with things impossible"-- William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar
 
"Well I'm runnin' down the road tryin' to loosen my load,
Got a world of trouble on my mind."

Take it Easy by the Eagles
 
“It's never too late to become what you might have been.” George Eliot
 
"Restlessness is discontent—and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man—and I will show you a failure."
- Thomas Alva Edison
 
" The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done."
Arnold Palmer

All this pain is an illusion.  Maynard James Keenan
 
If you want it~gotta earn it!  USMC running cadence