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Plodding wins the race. By Aesop Plodding Race Wins

The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither. By Kenneth Grahame Hunting Chasing Hard Closing Running

Mortals trotted about in shoes and corsets made to limit movement, fashion for prey. By Gail Carriger Mortals Movement Fashion Prey Trotted

The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell of hieratic pacing, rooflesswandering, breathless flight. Human dignity insisted on the right towalk, a rhythm not extorted from the body by command or terror. Thewalk, the stroll, were private ways of passing time, the heritage ofthe feudal promenade in the nineteenth century. By Theodor Adorno Olddays Body Habituation Walking Normal

Running was Clover's favorite thing to do, after reading. She loved the way the cement felt hard and unforgiving under her feet until she reached the park and the dirt path that wound its way alongside the Truckee River.She liked the wind in her face and how it smelled like water. And the way Mango ran beside her, keeping her company. But most of all she liked the way the steady pace untangled her thoughts. By Shaunta Grimes Clover Running Reading Favorite Thing

A good horse runs with seeing just the shadow of the whip. By Gautama Buddha Whip Good Horse Runs Shadow

I thought about evolutionary historians who argued that walking was a central part of what it meant to be human. Our two-legged motion was what first differentiated us from the apes. It freed our hands for tools and carried us onthe long marches out of Africa. As a species, we colonized the world on foot. Most of human history was created through contacts conducted at walking pace, even when some rode horses. I thought of the pilgrimages to Compostela in Spain; to Mecca; to the source of the Ganges; and of wandering dervishes, sadhus; and friars who approached God on foot. The Buddha meditated by walking and Wordsworth composed sonnets while striding beside the lakes.Bruce Chatwin concluded from all this that we would think and live better and be closer to our purpose as humans if we moved continually on foot across the surface of the earth. I was not sure I was living or thinking any better. By Rory Stewart Foot Walking Evolutionary Historians Argued

Settle steadily down as a staid, sensible piece of paper ought to do, but it insists on contravening every recognized rule of decorum, turning over and darting hither and thither in the most erratic manner, much after the style of an untrained horse. This was the kind of horse, he said, that men had to learn to manage in order to fly, and there were two ways: One is to get on him and learn by actual practice how each motion and trick may be best met; the other is to sit on a fence and watch the beast a while, and then retire to the house and at leisure figure out the best way of overcoming his jumps and kicks. The latter system is the safest, but the former, on the whole, turns out the larger proportion of good riders. By David Mccullough Horse Settle Staid Decorum Turning

The foot that is familiar with the grass belongs usually to a man of lighter heart than he whose soles seldom wander from the pavement; and the best elixir vitae is a run, as often as we can contrive it, amid the sweets of new and lovely scenery, where nature sits, fresh from the hand of the Creator, almost chiding us for our delay. By Leopold Hartley Grindon Creator Pavement Run Amid Scenery

As runners, we all go through many transitions transitions that closely mimic the larger changes we experience in a lifetime. First, we try to run faster. Then we try to run harder. Then we learn to accept ourselves and our limitations, and at last, we can appreciate the true joy and meaning of running. By Amby Burfoot Transitions Runners Lifetime Closely Mimic

So as soon as I tell myself I'm the first man ever to be dropped into the world, and as soon as I take that first flying leap into the frosty grass of an early morning when even birds haven't the heart to whistle, I get to thinking, and that's what I like. I go my rounds in a dream, turning at lane or footpath corners without knowing I'm turning, leaping brooks without knowing they're there, and shouting good morning to the early cow-milker without seeing him. It's a treat being a long-distance runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do. By Alan Sillitoe Early Morning Whistle Thinking World

There are few instincts more natural than the body in full motion as it races across a field or through the trees. By Neal Bascomb Trees Instincts Natural Body Full

These hooves were made for walking. By Steve Merrick Walking Hooves Made

Walking itself is the intentional act closest to the unwilled rhythms of the body, to breathing and the beating of the heart. It strikes a delicate balance between working and idling, being and doing. It is a bodily labor that produces nothing but thoughts, experiences, arrivals. By Rebecca Solnit Walking Body Heart Intentional Act

When Dove moves up from a canter to a gallop, sometimes the only way I can tell the difference is because her hooves pound a four-time rhythm instead of a three. But when Corr moves into a gallop, it's as if it's a gait that's just been invented, something so much faster than all the others that it should be called something else ... Each stride feels like it takes us a mile. We'll run out of island before he runs out of speed. We're giants, on his back. By Maggie Stiefvater Dove Gallop Moves Canter Difference

The world is full of people running By Elizabeth Swados Running World Full People

Just as ballroom dancing and pair skating command partners to work together seamlessly, in the sport of dressage, the rider performers an intricate pas de deux with his partner - a twelve-hundred-pound four-footed beast. By Elizabeth Letts Seamlessly Dressage Fourfooted Beast Ballroom

Some people can't figure out what I'm doing. It's not a walk-hop, it's not a trot, it's running, or as close as I can get to running, and it's harder than doing it on two legs. It makes me mad when people call this a walk. If I was walking it wouldn't be anything. By Terry Fox Running Figure People Walkhop Trot

walked about a furlong By Daniel Defoe Walked Furlong

Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace. By George Herbert Hee Mends Pace Stumbles Falles

There is no happiness like the pounding of so many horses into one. I imagine I hear the horses laugh. I think it every time. I think that running is the way a horse may laugh out loud. When I am older I will believe that following in their wake has filled me with the inconsolable joy of animals. By Mark Spragg Happiness Pounding Horses Laugh Horse

We're designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. What's built into that kind of running is a sense of pleasure. You are designed and built and perfect for this activity, and it should be enjoyable and fun. By Christopher Mcdougall Running Hunting Walking Persistence Mix

But, but, lord," Merry stammered, "I offered you my sword. I do not want to be parted from you like this, Theoden King. And as all my friends have gone to battle, I should be ashamed to stay behind.""But we ride on horses tall and swift," said Theoden; "and great though your heart be, you cannot ride on such beasts.""Then tie me on the back of one, or let me hang on a stirrup, or something," said Merry. "It is a long way to run; but run I shall, if I cannot ride, even if I wear my feet off and arrive weeks too late. By J.r.r. Tolkien Lord Merry Theoden Ride Stammered

Storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning,Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing,I tread day and night such roads. By Walt Whitman Storming Enjoying Planning Loving Cautioningbacking

Runners don't run with their legs, they run ON their legs. In reality, they run with their Arms! By Percy Cerutty Legs Run Runners Arms Reality

At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship. By Benjamin Cheever Accomplishment Staple Bread Wine Marriage

Running is like music. It requires rhythm and focus. It requires dedication. It requires a dogged ability to shut out everything else. The herd is strung out below me, keeping time with the thump and slap of their cross-trainers. I hold the sound in my head and subtract cars, trucks, motorcycles, voices until it's nothing but a song. By Brenna Yovanoff Requires Running Music Focus Trucks

Foot speed was a profoundly different way of moving through the world than my normal modes of travel. Miles weren't things that blazed dully past. They were long, intimate straggles of weeds and clumps of dirt, blades of grass and flowers that bent in the wind, trees that lumbered and screeched. By Cheryl Strayed Foot Travel Speed Profoundly Moving

The start of a run is like the start of a writing session: First you resist, then you threaten to quit, then you roll your eyes and hunker down, and then suddenly you sprout wings and take flight. By Gregor Collins Start Session Resist Quit Flight

When you hit a certain spot you Sprint no matter how you feel inside or what your co-runner thinks. You just go! In training as a nickel, you sprint because you need to sprint! You just do it! In racing people see it and call it courage, but it is attitude; determination; duty. By Gerry Lindgren Sprint Hit Spot Matter Feel

Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life - -and for me, for writing as well. By Haruki Murakami Exerting Limits Running Life Fullest

I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it. By Tea Leoni Hill Began Live Walking Jogging

There is this to be said for walking: it is the one method of human locomotion by which a man or woman proceeds erect, upright, proud and independent, not squatting on the haunches like a frog.Little boys love machines. Grown-up mean and women like to walk. By Edward Abbey Upright Walking Erect Proud Independent

He that rises late must trot all day. By Benjamin Franklin Day Rises Late Trot

Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer. By Paul Shepard Horses Elephants Man Antelopes Wild

Running is many things to me: survival, calmness, euphoria, solitude. It is proof of my corporeal existence, my ability to control my movement through space if not time, and the obedience, however temporary, of my body to my will. As I run I displace air, and things come and go around me, and the path moves like a filmstrip beneath my feet. By Audrey Niffenegger Survival Calmness Euphoria Solitude Running

Running so hard, her breath stippled with pain to go faster, hit the grass harder, move forward faster, like she could break through something in front of her, something no one else saw. By Megan Abbott Faster Running Hard Hit Harder

We all have one. It is that run. Its physical location may change as we move house, region, country, continent. But it is the run that is always with us. It is the run that we can trust ourselves to. It is the run that is waiting to enfold us back again after injury, absence or discouragement. It is where we go in the cool of the early morning, in the heat of the day, in the fading light of a setting sun. It is a place we go to in all seasons, observing and feeling the changes, until the rhythm of the earth becomes our own, a comforting reminder of the impermanence of all things. It is where we go to seek solace, to seek challenge. It is where we go when we need to push, to hold back. It is where we go when we need to find a fragile peace. By Lizzy Hawker Run Seek Back Region Country

A good runner leaves no footprints. By Laozi Footprints Good Runner Leaves

and heading for the next, running the first horse into the second corral, throwing the saddle on the next bronc and then heading down the line to the next place and the next until winding up back at the first place just about at By Molly Gloss Heading Place Running Corral Throwing

On he went, one foot in front of the other. Now that he accepted the slowness of himself, he took pleasure in the distance he covered. By Rachel Joyce Foot Front Covered Accepted Slowness

A man is never so vulnerable in a battle as when he flees," Lord Eddard has told Jon once. "A running man is like a wounded animal to a soldier. It gets his bloodlust up. By George R R Martin Lord Eddard Jon Man Flees

A running machine, that glides over mud, crud and goop. By Ed Eyestone Machine Mud Crud Goop Running

weaving his way across By S.t. Joshi Weaving

And then I was simply running, flying along the hallways of the palace on glass-slippered feet, not knowing, not caring where I was going. The journey, not the destination, was all that mattered. The sense of freedom, never mind that it was false, that always comes with motion. By Cameron Dokey Running Flying Feet Knowing Simply

It is good walking when one hath his horse in hand. By John Lyly Hand Good Walking Hath Horse

Hurrying, dragging, falling, crying, calling out names hopefully and hopelessly. By Zora Neale Hurston Hurrying Dragging Falling Crying Calling

The heel of Achilles By William Strunk Jr. Achilles Heel

WHEN I finally slowed and looked around, I saw with amazement I'd trotted sixteen blocks in about three minutes. Summer Olympics, here I come. Assuming they held the races at night. By Maryjanice Davidson Minutes Finally Slowed Looked Amazement

We're all looking for a rhythm, a movement that isn't forced, that feels right. I wanted to be more surefooted. I was still searching for the perfect pace. By Katie Kacvinsky Rhythm Forced Movement Feels Surefooted

As every runner knows, running is about more than just putting one foot in front of the other; it is about our lifestyle and who we are. By Joan Benoit Samuelson Running Runner Putting Foot Front

Running was the way he dreamed. Having never been in control of his life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free. He dreamed of being at the mercy of the wind, carried aloft and blown here and there, a life of true randomness instead of always being part of someone else's purpose. By Orson Scott Card Running Dreamed Life Free Control

The distance runners were serene messengers. Gliding along wooded trails and mountain paths, their spiritual ancestors kept their own solitary counsel for long hours while carrying some message the import of which was only one corner of their considerable speculation. They lived within themselves; long ago they did so, and they do today. There By John L. Parker Jr. Messengers Distance Runners Serene Long

Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night By Harper Lee Folks Doin Runnin Night Lot

1. Running with the Mind of Meditation By Sakyong Mipham Meditation Mind Running

After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North and South and that's what I turned my style into. I was a North and South runner. By Earl Campbell Brown Jim North South Bounds

Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise. By A. L. Rowse Walking Wise Favorite Sport Good

Where ruts have not yet been worn, it requires less effort to stay out of them. By Daniel J. Boorstin Worn Ruts Requires Effort Stay

Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion. By Lorraine Moller Running Meditation Mind Flush Cosmic

By now, a million pedal strokes have etched the muscles in my legs with a single purpose: to power the crank and move the bicycle forward. Food flows into my body, bringing it power and strength. It is no longer a question of struggle. Now the journey evolves into the spiritual realm-where the pedaling becomes instinctive. It's a free-flow of energy that comes through my body and willingly expresses itself in the flight of the pedals. By Frosty Wooldridge Power Purpose Forward Million Strokes

Parkour," I panted. "Bitch. By Jim Butcher Parkour Bitch Panted

You shall ride my horse,' said Glorfindel. 'I will shorten the stirrups up to the saddle-skirts, and you must sit as tight as you can. But you need not fear: my horse will not let any rider fall that I command him to bear. His pace is light and smooth; and if danger presses too near, he will bear you away with a speed that even the black steeds of the enemy cannot rival. By Anonymous Glorfindel Horse Ride Bear Saddleskirts

Running is in my blood-the adrenaline flows before the races, the love/hate of butterflies in your stomach. By Marcus O'sullivan Running Races Love Hate Stomach

When I'm out on a long run," she continued, "the only thing in life that matters is finishing the run. For once, my brain isn't going blehblehbleh all the time. Everything quiets down, and the only thing going on is pure flow. It's jus time and the movement and the motion.That's what lovejust being a barbarian, running through the woods. By Christopher Mcdougall Run Continued Thing Long Life

It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place. By Lewis Carroll Place Running

Whether running, biking, swimming, or dancing, I just like to always be on the move. By Karlie Kloss Biking Swimming Running Dancing Move

I'm tired of running ... This is the only thing that's real. Don't run from me, Tiny Dancer. By Nyrae Dawn Running Tiny Dancer Tired Real

I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning. By Gail Simmons Time Soulcycle Run Solid Miles

We was doing a lot of what our officers called "maneuvering" - which is officer talk for running By David Eddings Maneuvering Called Running Lot Talk

The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect. By George Sheehan Person True Runner Fortunate Perfect

There was a rhythm to the canter. Up, forward, down; up, forward, down. It soon became pleasant. The broad warm rump felt good beneath her. The pounding was diminished, cushioned by the horse's muscles and the springiness of his hindquarter joints ... The ridden horse was a marvel, diminishing space. By Morgan Llywelyn Forward Canter Rhythm Horse Pleasant

A runner is a miser, spending the pennies of his energy with great stinginess, constantly wanting to know how much he has spent and how much longer he will be expected to pay. He wants to be broke at precisely the moment he no longer needs his coin. By John L. Parker Jr. Miser Spending Stinginess Constantly Pay

Putting facts by the thousands, into the world, the toes take off with an appealing squeak which the thumping heel follows confidentially, the way men greet men. Sometimes walking is just such elated pumping. By Lyn Hejinian Men Putting Thousands World Confidentially

Running is the heart of what it means to be human. By Christopher Mcdougall Running Human Heart

In daily life, you are in the habit of running because you think happiness is impossible in the present. This is a habit that was handed down to you by your ancestors, by your parents. Happiness does not seem possible to you in the here and now, so you look for it in the distant future. The practice consists of stopping that habit of running. By Thich Nhat Hanh Habit Life Present Daily Impossible

( ... ) it's not easy to run in heels. Fashion over function ( ... ) By C.m. Stunich Heels Easy Run Fashion Function

Wisely and slowly; they stumble that run fast. By Hugh Howey Wisely Slowly Fast Stumble Run

I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on By Jackson Browne Running

I like hoofing you about. By Jodi Ellen Malpas Hoofing

Racing serves as a formal demonstration of your ability to ride the three-headed monster. The first monster is your physical preparation-lifting weights for strength, running for endurance, working on your technique. The second monster is your mental preparation-all our jabbering about humility, battling for your life, taking complete responsibility for the outcome. The last monster is your X Factor, your soul, your courage. Taken altogether, I call this three-headed monster the Process of Winning. By Brad Alan Lewis Monster Racing Serves Formal Demonstration

The last wandering By Jennifer Niven Wandering

I'll walk as fast as I want, and I will take breaks whenever I feel like it. There is no one to follow, no one to keep up with. There's just me and this one beautiful day, this one moment, right here, now. By Elana K. Arnold Walk Fast Breaks Feel Follow

Running, you should know, is a kind of stillness. By Tiphanie Yanique Running Stillness Kind

Running, close companion to death, summons us to the most vivid acts of life. Our ancestors (we have forgotten) ran for food and for love, love and lust. For us, a prime symbol of sexuality is the automobile. For the ancients it was the chase, the foot race. Satyr and nymph, maiden and god, hot pursuit. The mythic hunters, Diana and Atalanta, available only to the males, men or gods, who could outrun them; death to all others. By George Leonard Running Close Summons Life Companion

You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running or you wouldn't live to love anything else. By Christopher Mcdougall Ran Eaten Eat Avoid Find

Runners in the western world have a tendency to create psychological barriers for themselves, but Morceli runs at will, with no inhibitions. By Eamonn Coghlan Morceli Runners Inhibitions Western World

There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins. By Hafez Accidents Reins Ambush Army Rider

The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper. By Saib Tabrizi Slips Jumper March Good Fortune

During long, slow distance training, you should think of yourself as a thoroughbred disguised as a plow horse. No need to give yourself away by running fast. By Marty Liquori Long Slow Training Horse Distance

Our bodies are made to move, and moving down the trail is one of the oldest, natural ways people have used their bodies. By Jennifer Pharr Davis Move Oldest Natural Bodies Made

Since my fried left me,I've got nothing to do but walking.I walk to forget.I walk,I escape,I get further.My friend will not come back,now I am a marathon man. By Shel Silverstein Left Man Fried Walkingi Walk

We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was associated with freedom, vitality, and eternal youth. By Christopher Mcdougall Vitality Hearts Existence Freedom Youth

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers. By Leslie Stephen Walking Season Natural Recreation Man

The number one Runner rule: Never. Stop. Running By James Dashner Runner Stop Rule Running Number

I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails. By Rachel Boston Running Love Simplicity Freedom Shoes

Another long run, hoping to put distance between me and everything else. The farther, the better. Only problem is, the distance is just temporary, because no matter how far I go, I always have to come back. By Lisa Schroeder Run Hoping Long Put Distance

Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance. By Noel Carroll Selfawareness Running Selfconsciousness Selfreliance Classical

Running my fastest not from my past. Running from those who have hurt me in it. And, they can't catch me anymore. I escaped from the land of make believe. By Jill Telford Running Past Fastest Anymore Hurt

Running is special. We've all done it: well, poorly, focused, in fear, being pursued, toward a goal. It's just elemental. Running is like fire. By Rob Delaney Running Special Poorly Focused Fear

Walk. Run. Ride. By Kristin Hannah Walk Run Ride