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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.

Bill Rodgers

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
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
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
I often lose motivation, but it’s something I accept as normal.
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Motivation Normal Running
Every race is totally different.
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Different Race Totally
I believe in gradual experimentation with running shoes.
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Believe Running Shoes
I ran my fastest marathon in the rain.
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Marathon Rain Ran
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
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
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
Hills are terrific for running
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Hills Running Terrific
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
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
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 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
If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.
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Race Running Winning

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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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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