Anybody can be a runner. We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It’s the easiest sport.
BILL RODGERSTo be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year – but for a lifetime.
More Bill Rodgers Quotes
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The marathon can humble you.
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If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.
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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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I want to run until I can’t run
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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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Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors – that is what motivates me.
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I believe in gradual experimentation with running shoes.
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Age 50 is a lot tougher than 40s
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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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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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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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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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Every race is totally different.
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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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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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