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Frank Shorter

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My goal is to break three hours in a marathon.


— Frank Shorter


#goal #hours #marathon #three

Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.


— Frank Shorter


#again #am #back #finally #had

Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.


— Frank Shorter


#get #help #might #off #others

So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.


— Frank Shorter


#i #i can #lawyer #least #olympic

The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.


— Frank Shorter


#blow #competitors #debt #energy #had

The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.


— Frank Shorter


#perfect #shining #us #weather

To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.


— Frank Shorter


#another way #gym #jordan #michael #michael jordan

What you did was live on very little. I think all of us that were competing - Bill is the same way - you don't need much to live.


— Frank Shorter


#competing #did #i #i think #little

When I am totally race fit, I don't worry about breathing or technique - they take care of themselves.


— Frank Shorter


#am #breathing #care #fit #i

When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.


— Frank Shorter


#always #because #become #caring #child






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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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