The Impossible Long Run Quotes

“Janet: One is more of a mental tool. I need to have the form down. I need to be working on all these things at mile one or two, when everything is easy, if I think it’s all going to come together when I’m exhausted and I’m trying to keep going step by step, it isn’t going to happen. If you go to the gym to do push-ups, do five right instead of pushing to do ten wrong. Ian: You want to reinforce the good form, if you do it with bad form, all you’re doing is reinforcing bad habits. An ultra runner’s tool kit isn’t just the gear they use, it’s really a whole set of skills that you develop overtime that is internal.”
― Janet Patkowa, The Impossible Long Run: My Journey to Becoming Ultra

“I finally knew what people meant when they said, “If you want to do a big project, you need to ask for help.”
― Janet Patkowa, The Impossible Long Run: My Journey to Becoming Ultra

“Big lesson learned from this project: don’t be afraid of what I don’t know. Get all the information; it may not be nearly as awful as I think.”
― Janet Patkowa, The Impossible Long Run: My Journey to Becoming Ultra

“Yes. Your body can do more than you think it can.”
― Janet Patkowa, The Impossible Long Run: My Journey to Becoming Ultra