Dean Karnazes

I run because if I didn’t, I’d be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary. I run…to savor the trip along the way. Life becomes a little more vibrant, a little more intense. I like that.

Dean Karnazes

I run because it always takes me where I want to go.

Dean Karnazes

I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path, hit the trails, put one foot in front of the other, and come to the same conclusion I did: I run because it always takes me where I want to go.

Dean Karnazes

I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary.

Dean Karnazes

I think I have some of my clearest thoughts when I’m out running.

Dean Karnazes

I’m not trying to take more of the pie for myself. I’m trying to make the pie larger for everyone.

Dean Karnazes

I’ve raced on all seven continents at least twice. I’ve probably run thousands of races. But the single race that I’m most proud is a 10K. Yes, a 10K. I ran it with my daughter on her 10th birthday.

Dean Karnazes

If someone had said to me before I started doing this that a human being is capable of running 100 miles nonstop, I would have just said: ‘No way. I mean, how?’ If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.

Dean Karnazes

In school, you get the lesson and then take the test; in parenting, you take the test and then get the lesson.

Dean Karnazes

Many athletes are seeking new and novel ways of pushing their limits, and the challenge of running back-to-back races is certainly one way to test the boundaries.

Dean Karnazes