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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.
Frank Shorter
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Frank Shorter
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: October 31
Athletics Competitor
Long-Distance Runner
Marathon Runner
Olympic Athlete
Sprinter
München
Frank Charles Shorter
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I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet.
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The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.
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When you first run up First Avenue in New York, if you don't get goose bumps, theres something wrong with you.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.
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Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.
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To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.
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There's always the feeling of getting stronger. I think that's what keeps me going.
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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.
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You train best where you are the happiest.
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Why couldn't Pheidippides have died at 20 miles?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How did I know you ran a 4:30 mile in high school? That's easy. Everyone ran a 4:30 mile in high school.
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