Jill Homer > Quotes

“Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. Sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can. ~Vince Lombardi, American Football Coach”
― Jill Homer, 8,000 Miles Across Alaska: A Runner's Journeys on the Iditarod Trail

“Bicycle travel was slow enough to mean something, simple enough to be possible, and hard enough to be worth it.”
― Jill Homer, Ghost Trails: Journeys through a lifetime

“He handed me a spreadsheet of his own gear list -- everything extensively tested, accounted for and accurately weighed ... Chris' gear list resembled mine, at a base level. But there was a scientific certainty to his items, listed in precise terms and weighed down to fractions of an ounce.

"You weigh your chapstick?" I cried out. "Your chapstick?”
― Jill Homer, Be Brave, Be Strong: A Journey Across the Great Divide

“He explained how pushing above his threshold for short bursts of time at the beginning of each hill allowed him to breathe more easily on the long climbs. I nodded enthusiastically and understood little of what he was telling me.

"How about you?" he asked. "How do you structure your training?"

"I go until I'm tired," I said. "And then I do it again the next day."

"That's probably not very effective," John said.”
― Jill Homer, Be Brave, Be Strong: A Journey Across the Great Divide

“I pulled out my camera to take a few photos, but understood the images would always be a disappointment. Such is the price of great beauty, because while eyes can see and cameras can mimic, only experience and presence can reflect the sublime.”
― Jill Homer, Be Brave, Be Strong: A Journey Across the Great Divide

“Traveling alone is simpler and faster. Traveling with anybody else makes you morally responsible for them and limits your speed to that of the slowest companion.”
― Jill Homer, 8,000 Miles Across Alaska: A Runner's Journeys on the Iditarod Trail

“Every planned experience has its moment when expectations meet reality, and often they don’t connect.”
― Jill Homer, Ghost Trails: Journeys through a lifetime

“Mission, walking the pier, eating Ethiopian”
― Jill Homer, Be Brave, Be Strong: A Journey Across the Great Divide

“Time is life’s only currency, and freedom is its most valuable reward.”
― Jill Homer, Meanwhile the world goes on

“wooden snow fence on the northern side of”
― Jill Homer, Into the North Wind: A Thousand-Mile Bicycle Adventure Across Frozen Alaska

“the”
― Jill Homer, Becoming Frozen: Memoir of a First Year in Alaska

“That’s always one bright side to the times when life is really hard: It doesn’t take much to spur happiness.”
― Jill Homer, Ghost Trails: Journeys through a lifetime