Grete Waitz Quotes About Marathon

• I'm never going to run this again.

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• When I came to New York in 1978, I was a full-time school teacher and track runner, and determined to retire from competitive running. But winning the New York City Marathon kept me running for another decade.

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• Everyone wins the marathon. We all have the same feeling at the start-nervous, anxious, excited. It is a broader, richer, and even with twenty-seven thousand people-more intimate experience than I found when racing in track. New York is the marathon that all the biggest stars want to win, but has also been the stage for an array of human stories more vast than any other sporting event.

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• There is something about the ritual of the race - putting on the number, lining up, being timed - that brings out the best in us.

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• Not only is [a half marathon] a good test for the marathon, it is also good for those who feel they were just getting going in a 10K and are physically and mentally primed to go further. A half marathon is a good test of your endurance, without the physical punishment of going the full 26.2 miles. More so even than the 10K, it will teach you about patience, pacing, and how to negotiate a wider range of physical and emotional cycles.

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  Grete Waitz, Gloria Averbuch (2015). “Run Your First Marathon: Everything You Need to Know to Reach the Finish Line”, p.98, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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