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. |
For a moment in time on September 9, 1972 I was the luckiest person in the world. I was standing on the awards podium, inside the track and field stadium at the Olympic Games in Munich Germany, gazing through a blur of mild shock and tears, trying to focus on the American flag. |
Hills are speedwork in disguise |
I think he had a wake-up call. ...It's a different kind of race, and I think maybe he didn't take it quite as seriously as he might have, but you can bet he learned a lot of lessons. |
It's gotten to the point where American runners only show up to American-only prize money races. It's not really complicated. They won't show up unless you pay them, or it's an American-only prize money race. |
The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us. |
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. |
You don't rub 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe. |