Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.
I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.
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.
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.
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.
Because running fast is more fun than running slow.
I plan to be running as long as I can and have no plans to stop.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.
I was actually going to law school in 1972.
I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet.
To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.
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.
Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.
