Today, I received an email from
RacingThePlanet attaching a fun badge saying "I am training for
Sahara/Jordan 2014". Last year this time round, I was spending most of my
time training and racing. This year, I am still racing (but for the purpose of
training), and not doing much training other than fun hikes. By now I am really
convinced that I am not a dedicated runner and I don't aspire to be a good one.
I only want to travel and be out there with nature. Putting training, racing
and travelling together sounds like a perfect combo for me. Travelling is the
motivation and the ultimate goal. The other two are just the means to an end.
I did a bit of research and found a
few really good quotes about travelling worth studying and digesting.
"Too many of us wait to do
the perfect thing, with the result we do nothing. The way to get ahead is to
start now. While many of us are waiting until conditions are "just
right" before we go ahead, others are stumbling along, fortunately ignorant
of the dangers that beset them. By the time we are, in our superior wisdom,
decided to make a start, we discover that those who have gone fearlessly on
before, have, in their blundering way, traveled a considerable distance. If you
start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now, and that you
will not know next year, if you wait."
"Two roads diverged in a
wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
- Robert Frost
"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude."
- Denis Waitley
"The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not "to have and to hold" but "to give and serve." There can be no other meaning."
- Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell
"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."
- John D. Rockefeller
"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
