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Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.
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Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.
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I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet.
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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.
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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.
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As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.
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When I am totally race fit, I don't worry about breathing or technique - they take care of themselves.
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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.
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Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.
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The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.
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It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity - and Bill alluded to this - so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go.
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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.
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