"Not only is [a half marathon] a good test for the marathon, it is also good for those who feel they were just getting going in a 10K and are physically and mentally primed to go further. A half marathon is a good test of your endurance, without the physical punishment of going the full 26.2 miles. More so even than the 10K, it will teach you about patience, pacing, and how to negotiate a wider range of physical and emotional cycles."

Source : Grete Waitz, Gloria Averbuch (2015). “Run Your First Marathon: Everything You Need to Know to Reach the Finish Line”, p.98, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Grete Waitz

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“Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.”
“We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is formed by the stories we learn to live in.”

Source : William Kittredge (1996). “Who Owns the West?”
“When God saw that people, instead of turning to God, were turning to the medicine cabinet, God made himself available in the medicine cabinet.”

Source : "Ecstasy: The Complete Guide: A Comprehensive Look at the Risks and Benefits of MDMA". Book by Julie Holland, 2001.
“A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.”
“More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.”

Source : Dan Gable (2017). “A Wrestling Life 2: More Inspiring Stories of Dan Gable”, p.128, University of Iowa Press
“Democracy is an internal subject of the developing society. There are fundamentals of democracy, and they should be understood universally in different countries.”
“Iâ€™ve discovered a new affliction; itâ€™s called Orphan Black Eyes. When people ask me what Iâ€™m working on and I tell them Orphan Blackâ€¦they usually clutch a part of my body and their eyes go wide and a little crazy. People are MAD for this show. As am I.”
“They had a year of joy, twelve months of the strange heaven which the salmon know on beds of river shingle, under the gin-clear water. For twenty-four years they were guilty, but this first year was the only one which seemed like happiness. Looking back on it, when they were old, they did not remember that in this year it had ever rained or frozen. The four seasons were coloured like the edge of a rose petal for them.”

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