Don woke me up with breakfast in bed. Half a grapefruit and a lit cigarette. I found this highly romantic, because it was exactly what I wanted.
“Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air,” Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote.”
― The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports
― The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports
“She was running to be free and to be spiritually connected to the earth.”
― The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports
― The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports
“Well, there’s no proof that will happen. You can’t count on things happening tomorrow just because they happened in the past. It’s faulty logic.”
― Sunrise on the Reaping
― Sunrise on the Reaping
“Don’t you EVER,’ he looked back at us, over his shoulder, ‘wish away what is strange about you. You don’t know what got you here. It’s not normal. None of this is normal. It’s not normal to be this good at anything. You’re only here ’cause of what’s bloody wrong with you. Don’t you ever let me hear you wishing you was more normal. Alright?’ ”
― The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports
― The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports
“A big piece of my coaching philosophy is how can we accomplish that holistic experience from having a great family to doing great work? How does running add to all of this? And it should never stand in the way. My job is to make sure you can do all of this at a high level. It’s not that you just have that one goal. It’s all the goals.” This was a profound insight,”
― The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports
― The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports
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