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.
You have to know your body. It’s part of the beauty of the training process, and once you’ve determined how much your body and mind can take, you can then begin to reach your potential.
In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.
There’s always the feeling of getting stronger. I think that’s what keeps me going.
When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.
My goal has always been to slow down as slowly as possible. It’s as simple as that.
I want my time spent running to serve as a reward.
A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.
You don’t run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.
As I’ve been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I’m enjoying my running more and more.
You can actually suffer a little bit more going slowly than when you’re going really fast. A faster marathon might even be easier than a slow one, in terms of what it takes out of you mentally.
Why couldn’t Pheidippides have died at 20 miles?
Three half-mile repeats on the track at 5-K race pace with a short recovery jog in between shouldn’t scare anyone away-and it will improve your speed.
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.
Because running fast is more fun than running slow.
I plan to be running as long as I can and have no plans to stop.
Again, racing for me was about energy management.
To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.
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 so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go.
Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.