1. Don't pace off somebody who is running poorly.
2. Hydrate all week, not just the day of a meet.
3. Keep up my grades so I can continue running/jumping/throwing.
4. Don't slack off in practice.
5. Get plenty of sleep.
6. Visualize each race.
7. Keep extra clothing in my bag for cold/hot weather.
8. Wear MINISINK gear to school on meet days - nothing beats team spirit!
9. Ice trouble areas after practice even if nothing hurts.
10. Take HOT showers after long runs in the cold - it prevents sniffles!
"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."
~Steve Prefontaine
~Nike ad
"I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners."
~Sebastian Coe
"Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win."
~Tom Fleming's Boston Marathon mantra
"There is no such thing as bad weather, just soft people. "
~Bill Bowerman
"Only think of two things - the gun and the tape. When you hear the one, just run like hell until you break the other."
~Sam Mussabini
This is the truth.
"The clock doesn't stop until you force it to. That is the elegant beauty of track. It is the simplest, and hardest, of sports. Hear a gun go off, and run fast. That's the simple part. The hard part is, run faster than anybody else out there. This is the truth. The clock will run until somebody makes it stop. It might as well be you, don't you think? "
~ASICS ad
"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
~Japanese Proverb
"There are no problems, only opportunities."
~J. Strauss
"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."
~James Dean
So I ran. I ran until my lungs burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then, I ran some more.
~Tyler Durden, Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it
And - which is more - you'll be a man, my son.
~If by Rudyard Kipling
Running to him was real; the way he did it, the realest thing he knew. It was all joy and woe, hard as diamond:it made him weary beyond comprehension.
But it also made him free.
~Quentin Cassidy, Once a Runner by John L. Parker
"Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport is about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks."
~Sir Roger Bannister
"You don't have to be the best, but you have to want to be the best."
~Coach Blanarovich