Sentimental inspiration for Monday

Peckham

Shamlessly stolen from another poster on runnersworld.co.uk...so credit to "Gonna Make It" on that forum.....some sentimental inspiration for everyone to think about at about 8.30am on Monday, particularly the first timers here....
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When you stand on the Start Line, you join the club. When you stand at the Starting Line, you earn your membership. Millions dream of being where you are. You are no longer a dreamer. You are a doer.

Thousands more started a training programme but never finished. They started with the same enthusiasm (or more than) you. They started with more or less the same physical gifts or disadvantages as you did. They had no more and no less reason to be successful than you.

But somewhere along the way, they lost that enthusiasm. Somewhere on the road or on the track or treadmill, they decided that the rewards just weren't worth the effort. They decided that they could live without finding their limits, without challeging their expectations of themselves and without taking a hard look at their image of themselves.

You didn't. If you're standing at the Start Line, you've not only accepted the challenge, but you've also beaten back the demons. You've conquered your imagination and self-imposed limitations. You've gone further, got stronger and become tougher than you ever imagined.

onekeaneo

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When you stand on the Start Line, you join the club. When you stand at the Starting Line, you earn your membership. Millions dream of being where you are. You are no longer a dreamer. You are a doer.

Thousands more started a training programme but never finished. They started with the same enthusiasm (or more than) you. They started with more or less the same physical gifts or disadvantages as you did. They had no more and no less reason to be successful than you.

But somewhere along the way, they lost that enthusiasm. Somewhere on the road or on the track or treadmill, they decided that the rewards just weren't worth the effort. They decided that they could live without finding their limits, without challeging their expectations of themselves and without taking a hard look at their image of themselves.

You didn't. If you're standing at the Start Line, you've not only accepted the challenge, but you've also beaten back the demons. You've conquered your imagination and self-imposed limitations. You've gone further, got stronger and become tougher than you ever imagined.[/QUOTE]

Well said!!!!!
I'd just like to take a moment to wish everyone the very best of luck on Monday. I hope you all achieve your own personal goals. And a special “good luck” to all you first timers. Lets all help each other along. If you see someone towards the end struggling take a second out to give them a word of encouragement. We all have are own personal goals but were all in this together….Best of luck!!

ecoli

best of luck to all

"the aim of a race is not to win its to push the limits of the human heart"
Steve Prefontaine

remember that on monday forget bout times and positions thru the race bhave fun and give it your best and worry bout alll that wen ya finish

tenandtracer

My favorite quotes (for Roger Bannister's maybe swap man to person!)

"Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired."
George S. Patton


“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.”
- Roger Bannister


“There is no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.”
- Bill Bowerman

Odysseus

Mine are now where near as eloquent however are the startline when my anxiety levels are high I tell myself:

"You trained for this in the cold, you trained for this in the heat, you trained for thois in the wet, you trained for this wind. This is your day, go out and make it yours".


And for when the pain really starts to kick in:

"You knew this was going to hurt when you started, so shut the fuvk up, get the job done, and when your finished you can complain about it". Often repeated as a mantra.

Best of luck to everybody running tomorrow, I'm off to the RSD now to pick up my number.