Don Kardong famous quotes

03-28-2025

Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge.
-- Don Kardong

#Running #Hot #Use
Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.
-- Don Kardong

#Sports #Ice Cream #Darkness
If you run 100 miles a week, you can eat anything you want - Why? Because (a) you'll burn all the calories you consume, (b) you deserve it, and (c) you'll be injured soon and back on a restricted diet anyway.
-- Don Kardong

#Running #Want #Week
No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the shoes. More people finish marathons with no brains than with no shoes.
-- Don Kardong

#Running #Shoes #People
Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.
-- Don Kardong

#Olympics #Runners
I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. Ill take an angry moose any day.
-- Don Kardong

#Moose #Disease #Tick
Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings.
-- Don Kardong

#Running #Kings #Adventure
A good teammate is someone willing to get outside of personal thoughts and emotions, a friend who tries to understand, appreciate, and encourage other members of the team.
-- Don Kardong

#Team #Appreciate #Trying
Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.
-- Don Kardong

#Athlete #Kids #Race
We (ultra runners) alternate between depression and stupidity.
-- Don Kardong

#Stupidity #Ultras #Runners
Train at the same pace day after day, week after week, year after year, and that's the kind of running the body adapts to. But break out of that comfort zone with a little speedwork now and then, and the body will learn to deal with the new demands.
-- Don Kardong

#Running #Years #Body
Grizzly bears eat people without the benefit of music.
-- Don Kardong

#People #Grizzly Bears #Benefits
The key to running a good marathon is to not listen to anyone's advice the last week before the race. That's when people tend to do stupid things that disrupt all the input and training of the previous months.
-- Don Kardong

#Running #Stupid #Keys
Runners like to train 100 miles per week because it's a round number. But I think 88 is a lot rounder.
-- Don Kardong

#Running #Thinking #Numbers
There's no such thing as a bad carbohydrate.
-- Don Kardong

#Running #Carbohydrates
You entered a marathon with hills? You idiot.
-- Don Kardong

#Marathon #Idiot #Hills

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