The Happy Runner: Love the Process, Get Faster, Run Longer

Your best will never be enough unless it’s always enough.

Stop-and-start running training is a surefire way to make running miserable.

Taking yourself super seriously rarely works because eventually the universe will show you that it disagrees wholeheartedly.

If the goal is just to connect summits, you’ll probably grow to be indifferent about all the time you aren’t on top of a mountain.

what if the starting point of building a lifelong happy runner is contemplation of the fragility of the human body and the finish line that awaits everyone, long before you’re forced to by injury or decline? What if affirmation of life comes most honestly from contemplation of death?

the simplest principle of running training: all stress must have a purpose.

And as Coach Jack Daniels says, training should strive for the least amount of stress possible to achieve a given adaptation.

“What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.”

“I am a runner because I love it sometimes, I hate it other times, and no matter what it makes me a better person.”