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
I want my time spent running to serve as a reward.
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.
As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.
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?
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.
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.
Again, racing for me was about energy management.
To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.
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.
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.