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Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading.

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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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.
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I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.
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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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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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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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There's always the feeling of getting stronger. I think that's what keeps me going.
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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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Again, racing for me was about energy management.
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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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Hills are speedwork in disguise.
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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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I want my time spent running to serve as a reward.
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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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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.
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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.
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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 train best where you are the happiest.
Frank Shorter
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I plan to be running as long as I can and have no plans to stop.
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