Christopher McDougall Quotes

You learn to run like a sprinter, you'll be a great distance runner

I still run every other day. Longer at weekends. I probably do 35 miles a week.

Long runs improve your endurance but shorter intervals improve your speed. They are mutually beneficial for a distance runner. If you do 5k runs it will help your marathon.

I've been running wherever I can. There's no set plan. At my best, I'm doing 10 miles every other day.

I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no distance running champions. They get down to the track with a stopwatch and flog their guts out thinking that it'll make them a champion, but they'll never make a champion that way.

Twice a week I'll run fast quality workouts either on the track or road.

You have to run 75 to 100 miles a week if you expect to break the four-minute mile.

Let's face it: I am not a professional runner.

I used to think that it didn't make any difference how far you ran if you had a good, strong musculoskeletal system and no underlying cardiovascular problems.

I run year-round and then ramp up my training for a race a few months before.

If I run 100 meters 30 times, that is 3 kilometers and no longer a sprint.

I run at least five miles a day, just long distance.

As an athlete, you can train for so many years to be a 5K/10K runner. That's who you are, and it's hard to change that. Not using that technique - almost like a sprint - that's when you have to loosen up and just save as much energy as you can.

A lot of the people I know, they don't train like that. They do a lot of quick stuff, just speed drills. But I run long distance. I've always been like that, though, even when I was in high school. That's just how I train myself.

I can run a long distance very slowly and I do a half marathon every year.

My favorite off-mountain workout is the long run. It's great for building endurance and strength.

Doing the long endurance stuff seems to have given me the strength to sustain the speed. I think my body is just a lot stronger (thanks to the marathon)... By increasing the long runs, I found that does not take anything away from the speed but increases the strength on the track.

I found I could also be good in cross country. I don't think my running style has anything to do with it. If you have speed and your body feels good, you can do any distance.

Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

I've started listening to music in a new way after I started running. When it comes to running, I really got into the idea of track listings that way, too.

I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he's one of the best screen runners.

You can actually suffer a little bit more going slowly than when you're going really fast. A faster marathon might even be easier than a slow one, in terms of what it takes out of you mentally.

The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.

I love running. It's as simple as that ... it has given me endless rewards: physical, emotional, and professional. The benefits of running are lifelong. I ran as a child, and I intend to run into my old age.

But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.