Frank Shorter
Frank Shorter
Frank Charles Shorteris an American former long-distance runner who won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics. His Olympic successes, along with the achievements of other American runners, are credited with igniting the running boom in the United States during the 1970s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRunner
Date of Birth31 October 1947
CityMunich, Germany
CountryUnited States of America
You can actually suffer a little bit more going slowly than when you're going really fast. A faster marathon might even be easier than a slow one, in terms of what it takes out of you mentally.
Why couldn't Pheidippides have died at 20 miles?
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.
The thing that makes [Bob] Kennedy so good is that he doesn't have a fear of losing. He was willing to go to Europe and get hammered.
To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.
Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.
Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.
I also held several masters running titles.
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.
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 think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet.
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.
When you first run up First Avenue in New York, if you don't get goose bumps, theres something wrong with you.