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.
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.
Because running fast is more fun than running slow.
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.
I want my time spent running to serve as a reward.
My goal has always been to slow down as slowly as possible. It's as simple as that.
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.
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.
There's always the feeling of getting stronger. I think that's what keeps me going.
As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.
Why couldn't Pheidippides have died at 20 miles?
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.
In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.
You train best where you are the happiest.