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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

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
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
I ran my fastest marathon in the rain.
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Marathon Rain Ran
If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.
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Race Running Winning
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
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
A change of pace in terms of your running pace will give you strength psychologically.
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Change Giving 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
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 race is totally different.
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Different Race Totally
Personally, I always felt times aren’t so excellent as are performances.
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Excellence Excellent Performance
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
You cannot always run at your best.
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Always Best Run Running
Always take the long term view and train and race smart, with a bit of caution.
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Race Smart Views
Hills are terrific for running
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Hills Running Terrific
I often lose motivation, but it’s something I accept as normal.
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Motivation Normal Running

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