Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

by Alex Hutchinson

endurance is “the struggle to continue against a mounting desire to stop.”

“Do you notice he’s not dead?” he’d say, pointing at Lee. “What does that tell you? It means he could have run faster.”

“From this workout, you’ll learn forever that you’re capable of much more than you think,” he wrote. “It’s the most powerful lesson you can possibly learn in running.”

Run a lot of miles Some faster than your race pace Rest once in a while