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| Past Well-Said Statements: “Every day when I go out, I ask myself, ‘If I had a heart attack and died after this workout, would I die happy?’ The answer is always yes. The day that it’s ‘no’ is the day that I’ll stop.” -Anthony Famiglietti, in NYRR interview "One thing I like to tell the girls a lot now is how, when you’re in college, you worry a lot about a lot of silly things. Like, for example, I worried about staying lean all year. I worried more about my body then. I work with my body more now, rather than against it...I guess that’s the biggest thing. I tell everyone not to worry quite so much about running." -Amy Mortimer
"My philosophy is based on giving 100 percent. When you look in the mirror, you ask yourself the question if you gave 100 percent. You can't lie to yourself. If you gave 100 percent, no matter the outcome, you can move on." -Gail Devers (who is one of my top all-time favorite athletes, not just because she's from San Diego) November: "The time does not matter; only winning does." October: "But even in a great group, you
can get caught up too much in the group and not be so much thinking
about what you need every day. If I can say one thing that I've
been successful at this year, it's waking up every morning and making
sure that what I need to do that day gets done, and not necessarily
doing something because the group is doing it." September: "Breaking a World record is not
easy, but I cannot stop trying, I need to try! I need to improve." August: "You can't tell me to 'stop it,'
this is competition!" July: "This outdoors Megan is finishing
up her final semester in Physical Therapy. Her daily routine revolves
around waking up at 5:30 and running 4 miles. She returns from the
run and gets ready to go to her internship. Drives 70 min to work
a full workday before returning for a nighttime run or workout.
This pattern continued for 12 weeks." (For my own inspiration...sometimes MIT gets tough) June: Photo of the women's 1500 pile up at this year's Prefontaine Classic May: "...if there's anyone in the group
who comes in with any different kind of attitude, then they quickly
change and they can see that positive thinking is huge step in the
right direction. There's no reason to do the hard work and then
go into a race thinking we can't win. That's stupid." April: "... if they ever happen to hit
a hurdle in practice I will come down on them very hard, very mean,
and make sure that they have the fear of God in them so that they
will not hit it a second time. If I have a person who is hitting
it constantly, once in a while I will put a barrier out to make
him know if he hits it once, he more than likely will hit it again.
Most steeplechasers, if they have had the experience of hitting
the barrier, that pretty well cures them." March: "It is easy to be a runner when
you are winning races, setting PR's or contributing to the success
of your team. During the fall of my freshman year I felt unsuccessful
as a runner for the first time, and accordingly I began to question
whether or not I wanted to continue running... I lost sight of why
I started running in the first place -- the personal challenge of
pushing myself to be the best I can be. That being said, I would
like to offer the following advice to anyone preparing to run in
college...maintain a positive frame of mind no matter how poorly
things may be going. Don't dwell on times and performances, focus
instead on becoming the best runner you can be. If you view every
practice and every workout as an opportunity to get better, you
will achieve results and feel successful." December, January, most of
February... November: October: September: |