Jon Krakauer Running Quotations

You should own nothing except what you can carry on your back at a dead run.

Chris would use the spiritual aspect to try to motivate us. "He'd tell us to think about all the evil in the world, all the hatred, and imagine ourselves running against the forces of darkness, the evil wall that was trying to keep us from running our best. He believed that doing well was all mental, a simple matter of harnessing whatever energy was available.

What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?