Dean Karnazes Quotes - Page 3

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• I'm not trying to take more of the pie for myself. I'm trying to make the pie larger for everyone.

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  Pie, Trying

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• Toeing the starting line of a marathon, regardless of the language you speak, the God you worship or the color of your skin, we all stand as equal. Perhaps the world would be a better place if more people ran.

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  Color, People, Skins

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• Endurance running was my passion, my ride. So here, I was in the driver's seat, running for two days straight pushing the mental and physical limits striving to be better, to go farther, to give more.

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  Running, Passion, Two

  Dean Karnazes (2017). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.141, Atlantic Books

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• I have an ElliptiGO. It's a standup bicycle. You don't pedal; you stride on it. It allows me to have the same striding motion as running without the impact.

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  Running, Impact, Pedals

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• When I ran across America, for 75 days I ate 10,000 calories a day. I still lost about five pounds.

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  America, Pounds, Lost

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• As long as my heart's still in it, I'll keep going. If the passion's there, why stop?

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Passion, Heart

  Dean Karnazes (2006). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.199, Penguin

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• I love surfing, rock climbing, cycling - all that stuff. But it's just amazing that I can inspire people with my running. It's humbling, really.

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  Running, Cycling, Rocks

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• I have my whole office set-up at waist level; I don't sit at all during the day. Sitting, to me, is the devil.

  Dean Karnazes

  Office, Devil, Sitting

  "Dean Karnazes Makes Marathoners Look Lazy" By Catherine Pearson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2012.

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• Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables.

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  Book, Adventure, Air

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• Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race.

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  Running, Simple, Race

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• Pain is the body's way of ridding itself of weakness.

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  Pain, Weakness, Body

  Dean Karnazes (2006). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.86, Penguin

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• I do a lot of marathons as training runs. If I'm somewhere and there's a marathon, I'll sign up and just go run it.

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  Running, Training, Marathon

  "Dean Karnazes Makes Marathoners Look Lazy" By Catherine Pearson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2012.

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• I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.

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  Jobs, School, College

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• Running back-to-back races requires a certain tactical prudence. Going too hard in any one race might jeopardize your performance in another. Maintaining proper hydration and caloric equilibrium also becomes increasingly critical.

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  Running, Hydration, Race

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• If someone had said to me before I started doing this that a human being is capable of running 100 miles nonstop, I would have just said: 'No way. I mean, how?' If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.

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  Running, Mean, Self

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