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
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.
Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.
I also held several masters running titles.
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 so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go.
To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.
Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.
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.
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.
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.
Again, racing for me was about energy management.
I plan to be running as long as I can and have no plans to stop.
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.
Three half-mile repeats on the track at 5-K race pace with a short recovery jog in between shouldn't scare anyone away-and it will improve your speed.
You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.