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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=105 BGCOLOR="#0099CC" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="04400690ezuavc.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#CCFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>      The Cambridge Harriers</B></FONT><B>   |  </B><B> </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" The Cambridge Harriers"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div>                                                   </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#0099CC" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="045c8212ezuavc.png"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=375 BGCOLOR="#0099CC" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Quote Archive</div> <div> "If someone says, 'I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you run?' ignore him! What the hell difference does it make? The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles."            - Bill Bowerman </div> <bR> <div> "A day when I'm too busy to run is a day when I'm TOO </div> <div> busy."</div> <div>                                             - Unknown</div> <bR> <div> "Run hard when it's hard to run."</div> <div>                                             - Unknown</div> <bR> <div> "Canadian by birth, Kenyan at heart."</div> <div>                                             - Unknown</div> <bR> <div> "Pain is weakness leaving the body."</div> <div>                                             - Unknown</div> <bR> <div> "The only thing harder than running is not running."</div> <bR> <div>                                             - Unknown</div> <bR> <div> 26.2 Ways You Know You Are A Runner</div> <bR> <div> 1. You know how many miles there are in a marathon.</div> <div> 2. Your weekly mileage is how much you run, not your commute to work.</div> <div> 3. You know how many miles you get out of a pair of running shoes.</div> <div> 4. You can convert Kilometers to Miles in your head.</div> <div> 5. You measure your running route in your car to get the exact mileage.</div> <div> 6. When someone tells you their age, you automatically know their Boston qualifying time.</div> <div> 7. You know Grandma's as the route from Two Harbors to Duluth, not the person.</div> <div> 8. You can drink, blow your nose, and pee on the run.</div> <div> 9. The problem with the treadmill is there's no place to spit.</div> <div> 10. You have less than ten toenails and that's normal for you.</div> <div> 11. Body Glide is your friend.</div> <div> 12. Ibuprofen is affectionately known as "Vitamin I".</div> <div> 13. Navigating walkers, dogs, and baby strollers annoys you because it interrupts your pace.</div> <div> 14. When you participate in an organized event, you know not to run in your race t-shirt.</div> <div> 15. You have a favorite energy gel and flavor.</div> <div> 16. The "Picasso" above your fireplace is last year's TCM poster.</div> <div> 17. You have pre and post race rituals.</div> <div> 18. The journal you keep is in miles/kms and pace not feelings or thoughts.</div> <div> 19. When you look at the weather conditions, you calculate how many layers to wear.</div> <div> 20. The pride you feel after a good run is worth the pain it took to get there.</div> <div> 21. You have more t-shirts than you could possibly wear.</div> <div> 22. When you hear the word "bib", you think of race numbers not babies and Gerber food.</div> <div> 23. The "no carbohydrate diet" does not apply to you.</div> <div> 24. You know that Fartlek is not vulgar terminology.</div> <div> 25. A hill is an opportunity just waiting to be challenged.</div> <div> 26. You know the phrase "you're almost there" only applies when the finish line is in sight.</div> <div> .2 Your vacation destination is determined by your race schedule. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> "Hard work, given time, will defeat talent."</div> <div>                                                             - Unknown</div> <bR> <div> "Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer from agony of defeat."</div> <div>                                                             - I. M. Jokin</div> <bR> <div> "He was too small for football and he got tired of sitting on the bench all the time."    - Ray Prefontaine</div> <div> <B>                                                                                         </B></div> <div> "Run with perseverance the race set before us" </div> <div>              - Hebrews 12:1 (The apostle Paul was thought to be a sprinter)</div> <bR> <div> "Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."</div> <div> <I>                                                              -William Feather</I></div> <bR> <div> "There will be days you don't think you can run a marathon. There will be a lifetime of knowing you have."            -Unknown</div> <bR> <bR> <div> "If you can fill the unforgiving minute</div> <div> With sixty seconds worth of distance run,</div> <div> Yours is the earth and everything that's in it,</div> <div> And - which is more - you'll be a man, my son."</div> <div>                                         - Rudyard Kipling</div> <bR> <bR> <div> "I like cross country. It gets me in touch with nature. I can be running through the woods and see a deer on a hill looking at me as if to say, 'What the h*** is he doing.' On a track I feel like a hamster."</div> <div>                                                                   -Robin Williams </div> </td> </tr></table></body>