Speedwork Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Speedwork is terribly overrated! I remember talking to runners after distance races and someone is sure to say they were able to run fast off base work with no speed work at all. The truth is speedwork doesn't work. Lots of miles, and then fast miles gets you there much quicker than speed work.

Gerry Lindgren

#3. Hills are speedwork in disguise.

Frank Shorter

#4. Beginning runners come in all shapes, sizes and pre-existing conditions, so there's no magic formula for determining exactly how much basic running is needed before you start speedwork. Most experts, though, recommend three or four months of preparation.

Don Kardong

#5. Even for runners who never make the transition to more sophisticated workouts, easing into speedwork will lead to more enjoyable running.

Don Kardong

#6. If you put down a good, solid foundation and build one room after another, pretty soon you have a house. You build in your speedwork, your pace and increase your ability to run races and think races out. Then it's possible to run the way we do.

Rod Dixon

#7. But, apart from that, there was very little on underneath the suit.

Peter Mayhew

#8. You've got to take some chances and know when you're beat and know how to get certain advantages.

Phil Ivey

#9. Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.

James A. Garfield

#10. So long as the Oregon question is left open, Mexico will calculate the chances of a rupture between us and Great Britain, in the event of which she would be prepared to make common cause against us. But when an end is put to any such hope, she will speedily settle her difference with us.

John C. Calhoun

#11. Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.

Julia Margaret Cameron

#12. I better stop thinking in this manner, or before I know where I am I'll be bursting into tears, and it's a nice thing getting homesick before you even leave a place at all, so it is.

Walter Macken

#13. It was just over a year ago. Twelve months, nine days and six hours ago, actually. But thirteen months ago everything was ... perfect.

Sarah Ockler

#14. A road to a friend's house is never long.

Ann Richards

#15. As our hearts become pure, our vision becomes clearer.

Heidi Baker

#16. What happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money.

Jim Butcher

#17. The past only exists in the minds of those who choose to recall it.

Marjorie F. Baldwin

#18. You will come to the woods and choose your mate.

Molly Ringle

#19. Becoming a Christian is the work of a moment; being a Christian is the work of a lifetime.

Billy Graham

#20. I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player for the Heartbreakers. And I've been the right piano and organ player for a lot of sessions that I've been called on.

Benmont Tench

#21. [I]f one asks what substantive contributions [F. A. Hayek] made to our understanding of how the world works, one is left at something of a loss. Were it not for his politics, he would be virtually forgotten.

Paul Krugman