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Having your goal to focus on is key, but don’t let it become more important than your excellence next year and the year after.

Bill Rodgers

You cannot always run at your best.
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Always Best Run Running
If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.
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Race Running Winning
To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year – but for a lifetime.
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Mean Running Years
Anybody can be a runner. We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It’s the easiest sport.
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Running Softball Sports
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
Always take the long term view and train and race smart, with a bit of caution.
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Race Smart Views
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
Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows.
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Marathon Running Tasks
Age 50 is a lot tougher than 40s
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Age Together
Personally, I always felt times aren’t so excellent as are performances.
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Excellence Excellent Performance
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
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
I believe in keeping running simple and, in regard to shoes, that would mean no gimmicks, unnecessary cushioning, etc
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Believe Mean Running
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
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
The marathon can humble you.
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Boston Humble Marathon Running

Having your goal to focus on is key, but don’t let it become more important than your excellence next year and the year after.

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