- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Good Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
Again, racing for me was about energy management.
- Gain
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because running fast is more fun than running slow.
- Nov 07, 2020
Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.
- Conversational
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point.
- Hills
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hills are speedwork in disguise.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.
- Masters
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also held several masters running titles.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.
- Race
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think he had a wake-up call. It's a different kind of race, and I think maybe he didn't take it quite as seriously as he might have, but you can bet he learned a lot of lessons.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was actually going to law school in 1972.
- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity - and Bill alluded to this - so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go.
- Goal
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal is to break three hours in a marathon.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.
- Nov 07, 2020
So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020