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Frank Shorter

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Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.


— Frank Shorter


#experience #fast #flow #focusing #going

Hills are speedwork in disguise.


— Frank Shorter


#hills

I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.


— Frank Shorter


#averaging #day #full #going #graduated

You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.


— Frank Shorter


#good #good looks #looks #mile #miles

Because running fast is more fun than running slow.


— Frank Shorter


#fast #fun #more #running #slow

I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.


— Frank Shorter


#grow #heroes #i #like #now

Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.


— Frank Shorter


#becoming #friends #going #i #i think

There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff.


— Frank Shorter


#because #been #before #doing #had

Again, racing for me was about energy management.


— Frank Shorter


#again #energy #management #me #racing

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.


— Frank Shorter


#athlete #competition #done #even #good






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Army. 0 (1974)
5000 meters - 13:26. Cierpinski was later implicated as a part of the state-sponsored doping program of his country by East German track and field research files uncovered by Werner Franke at the Stasi headquarters in Leipzig in the late 1990s.

Frank Charles Shorter (born October 31 1947) is an American former long-distance runner who won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1972 Summer Olympics. His victory is credited with igniting the running boom in the United States of the 1970s.

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