Quotes by Don Kardong - Page 1

There's no such thing as a bad carbohydrate.
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Running
Carbohydrates
Distance Runner
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You entered a marathon with hills? You idiot.
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Running
Idiot
Marathon
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Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.
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Olympics
Runners
Prior
Runner
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Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.
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Food
Sports
Inspiration
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Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge.
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Running
Hot
Weight Loss
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Grizzly bears eat people without the benefit of music.
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Benefits
Grizzly Bears
People
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We (ultra runners) alternate between depression and stupidity.
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Runners
Stupidity
Ultras
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When I started running, a gadget was a wristwatch with a secondhand on it.
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Gadget
Secondhand
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Support the athlete, encourage the team, help the coach. That's what good track parents do.
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Athlete
Track
Coach
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Runners like to train 100 miles per week because it's a round number. But I think 88 is a lot rounder.
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Running
Numbers
Thinking
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Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.
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Kids
Athlete
Coaches
Parent
Race
Publicly
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I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. Ill take an angry moose any day.
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Disease
Moose
Tick
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I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. I'll take an angry moose any day.
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Angry
Disease
Moose
Runners
Tick
Bite
Suffered
Ended
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There's always somebody doing something more extreme than you are. It used to be that if you ran the marathon, that was the end of it.
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Marathon
Ran
Extreme
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Even for runners who never make the transition to more sophisticated workouts, easing into speedwork will lead to more enjoyable running.
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Enjoyable
Runners
Sophisticated
Will Never More
Easing
Workouts
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An overzealous parent is just one example of the kind of Problem Mom or Dad who pops up at track meets, threatening to put a damper on the day.
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Just One
Overzealous
Parent
Pops
Threatening
Track
Dad Mom Day
Meets
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When I went to the starting line of the 1976 Olympic marathon in Montreal, it was with the unsettling conviction that some of my competitors were cheaters.
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Competitors
Conviction
Marathon
Montreal
Cheaters
Line
Olympic
Unsettling
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When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it had only happened 15 years earlier.
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Conflict
Irrelevant
Middle School
World War Ii
Teachers
War World Conflict
Distant
Earlier
World War
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A good teammate is someone willing to get outside of personal thoughts and emotions, a friend who tries to understand, appreciate, and encourage other members of the team.
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Appreciate
Members
Team
Trying
Willing
Understand
Friend
Emotions
Outside
Personal
Tries
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No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the shoes. More people finish marathons with no brains than with no shoes.
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Inspirational
Running
People
Shoes
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The Kenyans beat up on the American runners in every road race every weekend of the year, but we're way ahead of them in the number and quality of our Elvis impersonators. We get our X-Men and gorillas.
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Runners
Ahead
Elvis
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New nemeses keep racing fresh, but I also find challenge in going longer, with only the distance as foe. I run my first 50-mile race, journey across the Grand Canyon and back, circumnavigate Mount St. Helens.
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Journey
Distance
Foe
Grand Canyon
Racing
Canyon
Grand
Mount
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If you run 100 miles a week, you can eat anything you want - Why? Because (a) you'll burn all the calories you consume, (b) you deserve it, and (c) you'll be injured soon and back on a restricted diet anyway.
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Inspirational
Running
Track And Field
Want
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The key to running a good marathon is to not listen to anyone's advice the last week before the race. That's when people tend to do stupid things that disrupt all the input and training of the previous months.
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Running
Keys
Stupid
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Train at the same pace day after day, week after week, year after year, and that's the kind of running the body adapts to. But break out of that comfort zone with a little speedwork now and then, and the body will learn to deal with the new demands.
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Running
Body
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Now And Then
Pace
Years
Zone
Day Body Will
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Beginning runners come in all shapes, sizes and pre-existing conditions, so there's no magic formula for determining exactly how much basic running is needed before you start speedwork. Most experts, though, recommend three or four months of preparation.
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Conditions
Experts
Magic
Preparation
Runners
Shapes
Determining
Recommend
Sizes
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Cold is not without its risks to runners, of course, especially ones who don't head south when winter visits their neighborhood. Even pooh-pooh-ers of frozen lungs and lovers of dark jogs over permafrost have been known to be careful about certain hazards.
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Be Careful
Careful
Cold
Frozen
Hazards
Lovers
Lungs
Neighborhood
Runners
Winter
Visits
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Clearly, there are things a runner does, intentionally or not, that disrupt team cohesion. And there are also things a runner doesn't do that can cause problems: not trying, showing up late, skipping team-building activities, and ignoring the coach's instructions.
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Cohesion
Showing Up
Activities
Coach
Disrupt
Ignoring
Instructions
Intentionally
Runner
Showing
Skipping
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Running at night used to frighten me. Part of it was simply safety, the question of whether level ground would truly appear under each tentative footstep, and whether the temporary but complete blindness suffered while running toward headlights was, in fact, concealing death.
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Blindness
Concealing
Headlights
Safety
Temporary
Appear
Suffered
Frighten
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Cheer for your teammates, regardless of whether they're fast or slow, veteran or neophyte, varsity or JV. Or rally the spirits of someone who's had a bad performance. Also, encourage stragglers during tough workouts; jog back to 'pick up' a runner who's behind during a long run.
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Bad Performance
Veteran
Teammates
Jog
Long Run
Rally
Slow
Regardless
Runner
Spirits
Workouts
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For most teenage runners, the right foods means a varied diet, decreasing the amount of fat found in the typical American diet and replacing those calories with carbohydrates. Avoid saturated fats, such as those found in fried foods, and eat plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables.
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Diet
Amount
Calories
Carbohydrates
Fats
Plenty
Runners
Saturated
Teenage
Typical
Vegetables
Fat
Avoid
Decreasing
Foods
Fried
Fruits
Replacing
Varied
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The body responds to a calorie deficit by slowing down the metabolism and burning muscle tissue. That leads to weakness, sluggishness, slow times. In girls, it can also result in cessation of menstrual periods, which in turn leads to loss of bone density and frequent stress fractures.
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Burning
Deficit
Density
Loss
Metabolism
Periods
Weakness
Muscle
Bone
Calorie
Cessation
Frequent
Leads
Slow
Responds
Tissue
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When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.
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Athlete
Forgotten
Persistent
Cheaters
Glance
Hopes
Rumors
Savage
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I've never owned an actual trail-running shoe myself, but maybe I should. My favorite paths are fraught with peril, much of it skulking at shoelace level. A rock, a root, an errant pine cone. Wham, and you're down, choking in dust and picking pebbles from wounds in your forearms and knees.
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Dust
Peril
Wounds
Actual
Choking
Cone
Fraught
Owned
Paths
Picking
Pine
Root
Shoe
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If an athlete takes a shortcut - literally, for example, by running a street that shortens the marathon route by a quarter mile - he or she doesn't have an insurmountable advantage. But it's an unfair advantage, and in a field of equally matched athletes, it's more than enough to make a difference.
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Advantage
Athlete
Insurmountable
Marathon
Matched
Unfair
Equally
For Example
He Or She
Make A Difference
Mile
Quarter
Route
Shortcut
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Sure, the first light snowfall may be a chance to dance giddily, leaving squeaky footprints through the neighborhood, marking the runner's right to the domain. But later drubbings of snow merely complicate running. Snow turns to ice, to slush, to ice again. Tire ruts twist ankles. New snow hides the hazards.
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Dance
Running
Chance
Ankles
Domain
Hazards
Ice
Leaving
Light
Neighborhood
Ruts
Slush
Snow
Tire
Turns
Sure
Again
Complicate
Footprints
Hides
Later
Marking
Merely
Runner
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In those long, lonely miles you put in during the off-season, and in those knife-in-the-gut repetitions and hill repeats that buckly your knees - at that moment in almost every race when you ask yourself how much you're willing to hurt to catch one more runner - you can draw strength and inspiration from your running mates.
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Running
Hurt
Lonely
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My introduction to dissociation had been at Kenneth Cooper's clinic in January of 1975. Cooper had assembled a gaggle of top American distance runners and a half dozen top researchers, the intent being to figure out what the difference was - physiologically, biomechanically, psychologically - between elite and subelite runners.
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Clinic
Distance
Dozen
Introduction
January
Researchers
Runners
Cooper
Elite
Intent
Psychologically
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In those long, lonely miles you put in during the off-season, and in those knife-in-the-gut track repetitions and hill repeats that buckle your knees - at that moment in almost every race when you ask yourself how much you're willing to hurt to catch one more runner - you can draw strength and inspiration from your running mates.
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Inspiration
Lonely
Mates
Miles
Off Season
Repeats
Track
Catch
Draw
Repetitions
Runner
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Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings.
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Kings
Running
Health
Adventure
Competition
Good Old Days
Mileage
Old Days
Remember
Ritual
Sanity
Sunday
Buddies
Days
Run
Continue
Old
Discuss
Enter
Eventually
Injuries
Phase
Restrict
Trail
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Fartlek, or speed play, is variable-pace running that emphasizes creativity. During a 30-minute run, choose objects to run to - telephone poles, trees, buildings, other runners, whatever. Make choices that mark off different distances, so your pickups vary in length from 15 to 90 seconds, and modify your pace to match the distance.
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Choices
Distance
Length
Mark
Objects
Pace
Runners
Seconds
Speed
Vary
Buildings
Choose
Distances
Match
Modify
Poles
Telephone
Trees
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The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through Rip Van Winkle country, routed through boulder fields, across angular juttings of granite and along a path with an unrelenting barrage of roots, rocks and mud, all of it hidden under slick leaves and dangling nettles.
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Fields
Granite
Mud
New York State
Ran
Rip
Rocks
Roots
Slick
Unrelenting
Angular
Boulder
Hidden
Leaves
Toughest
Van
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So here's my advice to city planners. Make your city runnable. Runners are the first wave of troops bringing human activity back to the urban core of any city. Where we go, others will follow. The connection between runnability and livability is so clear (at least to me), that it's surprising that new developments consistently leave pathways out of the plans.
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Advice
Cities
Pathways
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