Nowhere Near First Quotes

“Runners can be having an absolutely miserable race and yet still be cognizant of the fact that they are undertaking something amazing. I”
― Cory Reese, Nowhere Near First: Ultramarathon Adventures From The Back Of The Pack

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― Cory Reese, Nowhere Near First: Ultramarathon Adventures From The Back Of The Pack

“Ultramarathons have a way of stripping you bare. All the outside layers are peeled away like an onion and you are left alone with your doubts and fears and a finish line that feels an eternity away.”
― Cory Reese, Nowhere Near First: Ultramarathon Adventures From The Back Of The Pack

“I fear living a life similar to the movie "Groundhog Day", where I wake up in the morning, work eight to five, come home and watch television for a few hours, then go to bed, only to wake up the next day and do the same thing. Day after day. Month after month. Year after year. I don't want to look back on my year and see nothing but a long string of eight to fives.”
― Cory Reese, Nowhere Near First: Ultramarathon Adventures From The Back Of The Pack

“In an ultra marathon, at some point along the way you cross a line where pain becomes your companion. Suffering becomes part of the journey. Sometimes the suffering is minor, and other times it is nearly unbearable...but it always comes.”
― Cory Reese, Nowhere Near First: Ultramarathon Adventures From The Back Of The Pack

“Ultramarathons have a way of stripping you bare. All the outside layers are peeled away like an onion and you are left alone with your doubts and fears and a finish line that feels like an eternity away. But step after step, minute after minute, hour after hour that finish line gets closer. And when you find it all the doubts and fears vanish, replaced by triumph.”
― Cory Reese, Nowhere Near First: Ultramarathon Adventures From The Back Of The Pack

“In five years, you won’t care one bit about what your finishing time was. (And certainly nobody else cares about your finishing time.) What will stick with you five years later are the times you stopped to enjoy the scenery. That time you paused on the edge of a mesa at sunset to take a picture. That time you were holding your aching stomach because you were laughing so hard with your friend in the middle of a race. So don’t worry about how fast or slow you are. Running is about so much more than speed. More than anything else, I focus on making my running and my racing fun, even if my finishing place is nowhere near first.”
― Cory Reese, Nowhere Near First: Ultramarathon Adventures From The Back Of The Pack

“Being tired is not a legitimate reason to drop out.”
― Cory Reese, Nowhere Near First: Ultramarathon Adventures From The Back Of The Pack

“We don’t know the quiet struggles someone is battling. So you and I should work on spreading kindness. A little happiness could go a long way. In a world of so much sadness and pain, show love. Shine.”
― Cory Reese, Nowhere Near First: Ultramarathon Adventures From The Back Of The Pack

“Choose Kindness. Choose Patience. Choose Love.”
― Cory Reese, Nowhere Near First: Ultramarathon Adventures From The Back Of The Pack

“If I could have scripted the perfect experience for my first solo hundred-mile run, this would have been it. ***”
― Cory Reese, Nowhere Near First: Ultramarathon Adventures From The Back Of The Pack

“Hey, do you know how incredibly awesome it is that a human being can actually run 26.2 miles? And what’s even more awesome is that you — YOU — ran 26.2 miles! Be proud of yourself!”
― Cory Reese, Nowhere Near First: Ultramarathon Adventures From The Back Of The Pack

“As Ken Chlouber, founder of the Leadville Trail 100 said, “You’re better than you think you are. You can do more than you think you can.”
― Cory Reese, Nowhere Near First: Ultramarathon Adventures From The Back Of The Pack

“The ability to embrace suffering has been an asset when our family experiences a trial.”
― Cory Reese, Nowhere Near First: Ultramarathon Adventures From The Back Of The Pack

“I think almost anyone could do this if they spent less time on the couch in front of the TV.”
― Cory Reese, Nowhere Near First: Ultramarathon Adventures From The Back Of The Pack

“Don’t worry about people passing. The race doesn’t start until mile seventy.”
― Cory Reese, Nowhere Near First: Ultramarathon Adventures From The Back Of The Pack

“Whether you’re feeling good or bad during an ultramarathon, don’t worry, it will pass”
― Cory Reese, Nowhere Near First: Ultramarathon Adventures From The Back Of The Pack

“But what I find so inspiring at these ultramarathons is the mentality of the runners. Despite the adversity and exhaustion, almost everyone is amazingly positive. I would see runners truly suffering and ask how they were doing. Their response was almost always “Good!" or “Great!” They didn’t focus on everything going wrong, only on what was going right. And sometimes the only thing going right was that we were still upright. At”
― Cory Reese, Nowhere Near First: Ultramarathon Adventures From The Back Of The Pack