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“You only ever grow as a human being if you’re outside your comfort zone.”
― Scott Jurek, Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“If it comes easy, if it doesn’t require extraordinary effort, you’re not pushing hard enough: It’s supposed to hurt like hell.”
― Dean Karnazes, Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner

“The prize never goes to the fastest guy,” Chris replied. “It goes to the guy who slows down the least.”
― Rich Roll, Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

“but in today’s world with women’s rights and equality being such an integral part of life I think it is an important observation, because when I look around me for a role model of a woman who has succeeded as a woman, all I see are women who are clones of the men. I can’t help but wonder what will happen one day when women start playing by their own rules.”
― Verna van Schaik, Fatally Flawed: The Quest to be Deepest