If you are training properly, you should progress steadily. This doesn't necessarily mean a personal best every time you race ... Each training session should be like putting money in the bank. If your training works, you continue to deposit into your 'strength' account ... Too much training has the opposite effect. Rather than build, it tears down. Your body will tell when you have begun to tip the balance. Just be sure to listen to it.
Too many people I meet believe that you can sit in a chair and be given motivation. With exercise and fitness, you get it by doing. The mental qualit… - Grete Waitz
Too many people I meet believe that you can sit in a chair and be given motivation. With exercise and fitness, you get it by doing. The mental qualit…
- Grete Waitz
Exercise and sports are greatly affected by what goes into the mind, and the mind is greatly affected by sports and exercise as well. This is true am… - Grete Waitz
Exercise and sports are greatly affected by what goes into the mind, and the mind is greatly affected by sports and exercise as well. This is true am…
Everyone wins the marathon. We all have the same feeling at the start-nervous, anxious, excited. It is a broader, richer, and even with twenty-seven … - Grete Waitz
Everyone wins the marathon. We all have the same feeling at the start-nervous, anxious, excited. It is a broader, richer, and even with twenty-seven …
You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best. - Grete Waitz
You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best.
For every finish-line tape a runner breaks -- complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras -- there are the hours of… - Grete Waitz
For every finish-line tape a runner breaks -- complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras -- there are the hours of…
Sustained motivation is essential to achieving your potential. - Grete Waitz
Sustained motivation is essential to achieving your potential.
Spend at least some of your training time, and other parts of your day, concentrating on what you are doing in training and visualizing your success. - Grete Waitz
Spend at least some of your training time, and other parts of your day, concentrating on what you are doing in training and visualizing your success.
Running gives me a clearer perspective on the world, and it makes me feel special. I've never been a traditional tourist. I've always seen the world … - Grete Waitz
Running gives me a clearer perspective on the world, and it makes me feel special. I've never been a traditional tourist. I've always seen the world …
My basic philosophy can be summed up by an expression we use in Norwegian: hurry slowly. Get there, but be patient. - Grete Waitz
My basic philosophy can be summed up by an expression we use in Norwegian: hurry slowly. Get there, but be patient.
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