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You cannot always run at your best.

Bill Rodgers

I believe you’ll develop speed via strength work which includes hill running, either repeats, or running hilly courses as the Kenyans do on a steady basis
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Believe Hills Running
However, I’ve also trained as much as 130 miles per week during periods when I worked a full-time job. It ultimately becomes second nature. It becomes a habit, a routine part of your daily life
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Daily Life Routine Trained Ultimate
The starting line of the New York Marathon is kind of like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.
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Country Giants Sports Starting
My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.
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Athlete Distance Drug Tackled
Good health, peace of mind, being outdoors, camaraderie – those are all wonderful things that come to you when running. But for me, the real pull of running – the proverbial icing on the cake – has always been racing.
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Cake Real Running Wonderful
Every time I bomb out, I have to come back. I have a feeling after a bad race that my next one will be good.
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Bomb Feelings Race
Don’t feel guilty about driving somewhere nice to run. If people can drive to a park to eat hot dogs, you can drive there to run.
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Dog Nice Running
My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.
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Athlete Drinking Motivational
Age 50 is a lot tougher than 40s
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Age Together
The advice I have for beginners is the same philosophy that I have for runners of all levels of experience and ability — consistency, a sane approach, moderation and making your running an enjoyable, rather than dreaded, part of your life.
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Advice Philosophy Running
Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors – that is what motivates me.
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Giving Knowing Running
Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows.
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Marathon Running Tasks
I want to run until I can’t run
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Running Until Want
Running is a very natural activity. If you get too caught up, you find yourself constantly seeking to make running something that it isn’t.
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Running Simple Sports
Always take the long term view and train and race smart, with a bit of caution.
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Race Smart Views
Runners…you’re competitive, but you want to have fun, too. You want to enjoy life. And runners really get to do that, I think-after we recover.
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Fun Running Thinking

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