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" Again, racing for me was about energy management. "
Energy
Again
Management
" 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. "
Good
Done
Competition
" As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more. "
Gain
More
Running
" Because running fast is more fun than running slow. "
Slow
Because
Fast
" Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time. "
Time
School
You
" 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. "
Flow
Racing
Me
" For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point. "
Consistency
Yourself
Week
" Hills are speedwork in disguise. "
Hills
Disguise
" I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older. "
Admire
Want
Grow
" I also held several masters running titles. "
Held
Titles
Also
" In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis. "
Other
Words
Way
" Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed. "
Other
Running
Speed
" I plan to be running as long as I can and have no plans to stop. "
Long
Plans
Running
" 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. "
Day
Time
School
" I think he had a wake-up call. It's a different kind of race, and I think maybe he didn't take it quite as seriously as he might have, but you can bet he learned a lot of lessons. "
Race
Kind
Bet
" I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it. "
Kick
Door
Think
" I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet. "
Light
Quick
Fact
" It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing. "
Listen
You
Want
" 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. "
Find
Child
Time
" I was actually going to law school in 1972. "
Actually
Going
Law
" My goal is to break three hours in a marathon. "
Three
Marathon
Break
" Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood. "
Friends
Think
Lost
" Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again. "
Running
I Am
Back
" Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off. "
Help
Running
You
" 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. "
Work
Way
I Can
" 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. "
Perspective
Kind
Children
" 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. "
Race
Management
Energy
" The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing. "
Work
Training
Racing
" 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. "
Doing
You
People
" The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us. "
Shining
Us
Gods
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