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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.

Bill Rodgers

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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Goal Keys Years
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
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
Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows.
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Marathon Running Tasks
Personally, I always felt times aren’t so excellent as are performances.
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Excellence Excellent Performance
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
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
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
You cannot always run at your best.
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Always Best Run Running
I ran my fastest marathon in the rain.
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Marathon Rain Ran
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 want to run until I can’t run
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Running Until Want
I can’t even imagine what it’s like to run for 5 or 6 hours.
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Hours Imagine Running
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
A change of pace in terms of your running pace will give you strength psychologically.
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Change Giving Running

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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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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