"I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue." — Haruki Murakami (What I Talk About When I Talk About Running)
"The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school." — Haruki Murakami (What I Talk About When I Talk About Running)
"Of course it was painful, and there were times when, emotionally, I just wanted to chuck it all. But pain seems to be a precondition for this kind of sport. If pain weren't involved, who in the world would ever go to the trouble of taking part in sports like the triathlon or the marathon, which demand such an investment of time and energy? It's precisely because of the pain, precisely because we want to overcome that pain, that we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive--or at least a partial sense of it. Your quality of experience is based not on standards such as time or ranking, but on finally awakening to an awareness of the fluidity within action itself." — Murakami
"When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without." — Haruki Murakami (What I Talk About When I Talk About Running)
"The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky." — Haruki Murakami
“The bullet didn’t hit you at 3000 ft/s. You ran into the bullet at 3000 ft/s because of relative velocity, and therefore I am not guilty of murder.” - well does that also count as a running quote?
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ReplyDeleteYour post actually reminds me of the way I feel when I am doing lengths in the pool - non stop. My mind may be full of thoughts about stuff to be done, but the minute I start swimming, my mind goes completely blank, I think about nothing except perhaps how many more lengths I need to do. That is the most refreshing feeling ever - having to think about nothing at all.
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