Kara Goucher Running Quotes

Whether you’re an elite or a first-timer, that’s the magic of marathoning, the recognition of your own potential that had been there all along.

Race day is fun, but training gives you moments of the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Study after study has shown that the strength of social connections directly correlates to general happiness. In my own life, I make it a priority to nurture my connections with family and friends. These include the strength of connections in my running family, where my bonds with my training partners have stood the test of time.

Running is a head game. When you’re running, there are two options: let your mind wander or focus. To compete, you must focus.

It fills me with joy to encourage women to come together, to build a community focused on the positivity and beauty in running, and committed to helping each other to become our best selves—as runners and as women.

I think you are the most honest with yourself when you are on a run. The friends I have made through running know me so well. It is crazy the things I have shared with people while out on a run. Things I would never share just sitting around having a cup of coffee. But you are out on a run, and you are just so open. —Kara Goucher

If I’ve learned anything, it’s that change starts when good people refuse to stay quiet.

The truth is, running often attracts a personality type that gets high off extreme discipline.

When a woman tells the truth, she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.” —Adrienne Rich

It destroyed me, but I loved the feeling of doing something like that again completely on my own terms.

Finding a balance between running, family and work.

Training, doing something for myself, makes me happier and more appreciative of the time I have with my son. Being a runner makes me a better mother, and being a mother makes my running better.

Running as family. One of the best experiences of my life.

My priority right now is the baby. Running comes second.