Train where your fitness is NOW, not where you want to be.

Most of all, the ultra distance leaves you alone with your thoughts to an excruciating extent. Whatever song you have in your head had better be a good one. Whatever story you are telling yourself had better be a story about going on. There is no room for negativity. The reason most people quit has nothing to do with their body.

As powerful as our legs are, as magnificent as our lungs and arms and muscles are, nothing matters more than the mind.

Every single one of us possesses the strength to attempt something he isn't sure he can accomplish.

Sometimes the road to wellness isnt a well-marked expressway.

For me, challenging myself with this type of endeavor [ultramarathons] brings the best out in me because even at the darkest, deepest moments when I feel like I can't go on, when I feel like there's no chance I could break the record or much less finish the trail, somehow I find that strength inside of me.

What we eat is a matter of life and death.