The best runners every year are those who race out way too fast. Gerry Lindgren More Quotes by Gerry Lindgren More Quotes From Gerry Lindgren Run with your heart instead of your mind. When you think with your mind, you think of the things you can and can't do. But when you run with your heart you forget about what you can't do, and you just go out and do it. Gerry Lindgren heart running motivational Wanting to win races is detrimental to courage. You tend to run too conservatively because you want to wait and sprint. If you are there to force the pace, to CREATE greatness rather than to have greatness, Courageous moves are a part of your race. Gerry Lindgren winning running moving Set a new standard. Change reality. Break ground to something new and different. That achievement will live forever just because you WERE somebody special! Gerry Lindgren achievement forever reality Kids are afraid that if they race too fast they will get tired. Way too much fear and way too little COURAGE. Gerry Lindgren tired race kids My key to victory was that I always went out way too fast. Too fast erases every other race strategy out there. Everyone is hanging on for dear life or they give up. Gerry Lindgren giving-up keys race When I first came into international running, most runners did about 60-70 miles or running a week. I guess that is still the standard except for Kenya and Ethiopia. I was doing 150-250 a week and some weeks as high as 350. It was unheard of! But, because I did not have access to what was possible and standard, I had to set my own possibilities and standards. I was just lucky enough to be out of the loop and not know. Gerry Lindgren kenya lucky running The hard part is believing it can happen to you. Most likely, my runners will never achieve a 3-minute mile. I think they may all be disappointed at 3:20 or 3:30. But even if they never break 4-minutes they will have accomplished something DYNAMIC! They will have created the possibility than now does not exist. Gerry Lindgren may believe thinking The 3-minute mile goal is to teach runners that the impossible is where goals should be set. Gerry Lindgren goal should impossible COURAGE is not a quality you teach. Courage is the by-product of self-discipline. It is an ATTITUDE. Gerry Lindgren discipline self attitude I just wanted to quit running. My coach, Tracy Walters, took me aside and told me that I had an opportunity few people ever get. He said that I could inspire the whole team because I was so small and unathletic. Gerry Lindgren team opportunity running I never did cross training or lifted weights or put anything between myself and my passion for running. Gerry Lindgren training passion running When you hit a certain spot you Sprint no matter how you feel inside or what your co-runner thinks. You just go! In training as a nickel, you sprint because you need to sprint! You just do it! In racing people see it and call it courage, but it is attitude; determination; duty. Gerry Lindgren determination attitude thinking Goals should be impossible! You should tread FEARLESSLY where the brave dare not go. Gerry Lindgren goal brave impossible This life is made to change all reality. We are here for the benefit, happiness, and welfare of a new reality; a new direction. Gerry Lindgren benefits life-is reality I should be doing that too. I should be out there running and racing. I should be taking care of my body. Gerry Lindgren racing body running If you KNOW dehydration is a problem in long runs it becomes a problem in long runs. Gerry Lindgren dehydration running long Set a master goal for your running and for your life... Gerry Lindgren masters goal running Setting goals that have already been achieved is a cop-out. Gerry Lindgren settings cop goal 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 distance race running I always enjoyed the training more than I did the racing. There was a high level of anxiety in racing that I did not enjoy. Training runs set me FREE. I could imagine the race in my mind and race as if it were the actual race. Gerry Lindgren anxiety race running
