ReadbeforeUltra

ReadbeforeUltra, 23 days ago to running

❝Trying to do as best as I can, is all there is to do. After all, I’m the only one here putting this pressure on me. And probably also the only one judging here.
—Nick Cusseneers
https://nickcusseneers.substack.com/p/hills-pay-the-bills

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ReadbeforeUltra, 2 months ago to running

❝I gulped water at the aid station and took off up the trail, no longer looking at my watch, no longer looking at anything, just striding faster and faster, until breath and pain were concepts I couldn’t feel. […] Somewhere, in the back of my mind, I knew that if I kept up the pace, I was going to crack, but I wanted to see how far I could go. I wanted to tempt fate.
—Keir Plaice
https://escapecollective.com/racing-after-the-void/

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ReadbeforeUltra, 2 months ago to running

❝I’d imagined this moment so many times before. I envisioned me crossing the line in floods of tears as I hugged my family then kissed the famous wall of the Border Hotel.

But I didn’t feel any of this. In fact, I was devoid of all emotion.

—Samuel Hill
https://run-ultra.com/news/the-winter-spine-2024/

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ReadbeforeUltra, 3 months ago to running

❝Of course it’s fine to feel disappointed in your performance in a workout or a race. But I’ve started to question the benefit of processing those emotions on social media in real time. [W]e’re all here because we love the #running #community, right? And wouldn’t taking a beat to reflect on what you’re posting and why you’re posting it better benefit the community?
—Ashley Mateo
https://ashleymateo.substack.com/p/how-we-talk-when-we-talk-about-running

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ReadbeforeUltra, 3 months ago to running

❝I’m definitely not as good a physicist as I would be if I were not #running, and I’m not as good a runner as if I were full-time. But you only get one life, and I don’t want to throw away either of those activities.
—Jenny Hoffman
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00369-1

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ReadbeforeUltra, 4 months ago to running

❝We all know that it is physically impossible to run up a hill. [S]hould someone actually manage the monumental feat of running 100ft on a 12° slope, it would have the same detrimental effect on their body as three packs of cigarettes.
—Matt Poulton
https://www.gotothefells.com/post/beginners-guide-to-fell-running-ascending

In which Matt reveals, undoubtedly at great risk to himself, what the Keep Fell Running Alive By Fooling Passers By Organisation (KFRABFPBO) doesn’t want you to know.

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ReadbeforeUltra, 4 months ago to running

❝This is, perhaps, my favorite way to be: At the mercy of an expansive, beautiful landscape that cares nothing for me and could kill me in a blink, and yet emboldened to move forward for hours or days on end.
—Jill Homer
https://jilloutside.substack.com/p/life-is-simple-when-its-hard

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ReadbeforeUltra, 7 months ago to running

❝Pain imbued knowledge into the minds and bodies of the perambulators.
So too does a trail engrain into those moving upon it. Uneven ground wobbles the legs, switchbacks pivot the hips, rocks announce themselves beneath feet. The body keeps the score of a million tiny collisions of sinew into soil.
—Sam Robinson
https://bfastclub.substack.com/p/story-of-a-trail
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