“Remember, it's not a bike race, it's a triathlon, where the bike leg is an exercise in who can whisper the loudest.”
-Dan Empfield
“Ironman is all about mind.
not like short distance,
where you might be negative but the body feels good and so a good race can be had.
not in the real race,
you go in negative,
your dead in the water before you clear the swim
thats why i like it.
you cant fudge ironman, its only for iron people“
- Brett Sutton
“There’s magic in misery”
- Dean Karnazes
“Pressure is a privilege”
- Billy Jean King
“Success is a learned behavior”
“It doesn’t get easier, you just get faster”
- Eddie Merckx
“For me, Ultra Running is 90% Mental, and the other 10% being mental...I have no clue how I do this shit!”
- Ray Zahab in “Running the Sahara”
“But the will must be stronger than the skill."
- Mohammed Ali
