Running for distance can put a lot of wear-and-tear on bodies and minds.
The top 15 lifetime money winners in distance running were all born in Africa, including Ethiopia's Haile Gebreselasie, considered the most talented distance runner in history and the former world record holder in the marathon.
Fans who follow long-distance running are already familiar with Kenya's legendary success in the sport.
In theory, workouts and conditioning for Antista required more long-distance running while Lamoureux needed more sprinting.
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Or maybe it is because we are better at football - and hopeless at long-distance running.
Kanojia tried, and failed, to recreate the feeling with distance running and triathlons.
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Two armed figures running in the distance made the rangers level their rifles, but the figures vanished into tall grass.
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"Natural selection doesn't care one iota about the performance of the elite members of the species at distance running, " he said.
In the Commons, he earned a reputation as a thoughtful, soft-spoken speaker whose outside passions include hill walking and long-distance running.
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Think of John Wooden in college basketball, Doc Councilman in swimming, Bill Bowerman in distance running, Bill Walsh in professional football.
It wasn't enough that he would win two golds for distance running.
Events like the Tough Guy and Tough Mudder are tightly controlled for safety reasons, but as with ordinary long-distance running there are injuries.
He was really - he had the superb pedigree, a distance running pedigree, and, you know, by a sire who was very durable.
Tamarro's "keep it pure" attitude is increasingly pervasive in distance running.
Sony also congratulates Meb Keflezighi, an American distance running hero, on taking 4th in the Olympic Marathon and securing a place among the most accomplished marathoners in history.
More races mean more athletic children think of pursuing long distance running, especially in places like South America and China, where the sport still has significant room to grow.
Following the recent emergence of studies finding high levels of coronary plaque in marathon runners, sports medicine is debunking the myth that distance running confers near-absolute protection against heart disease.
Mr. BURFOOT: Well, it is, of course, and we're talking now about the distance running, because the U.S. sprinters are better than anybody in the world, frankly, with a few exceptions.
Maybe if they win again, their victories will be something more than a sad trivia question: Who won the most celebrated race in long-distance running the year the results didn't matter?
Unseen, though, was another opponent: Prefontaine, whose presence decades after his death on May 30, 1975, at the age of 24, has loomed large over long distance running in the United States.
For example, running the same distance now uses less energy because your legs are carrying less of you: an over-sized SUV uses lots more gas than a sedan (and please excuse the metaphor).
Posner, a prolific ultramarathoner currently in training for a 200-mile race in Vermont this year, wanted to broaden the scope of distance running and walking by opening the time frame for Rock the Ridge to 24 hours.
The soldier running in the distance, the graffiti on the crash barrier (something Graham did not see until in the darkroom), the broken lights, the posters placed high on the lamp posts and the flagstones removed from the kerb.
The celebrated 43-year-old restaurateur (with Mario Batali, a force behind Babbo and Del Posto, among others), winemaker and TV personality ("Master Chef") had long lived a calorie-rich high life when he dedicated himself to distance running, completing a New York City Marathon and shedding more than 50 pounds along the way.
The remaining major distance-running event in New York, this month's Brooklyn Marathon, will go as planned.
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Foster's sentiments are shared by Twell's Beijing team-mate and relative veteran of the British women's distance-running scene, Jo Pavey.
Some of them do come with a background of the East African nations, and whatever that is, it does seem to give them a leg up, shall we say, in the distance-running events.
The continuing acceleration in elite performance in the marathon may have more to do with the economic, sociological and demographic factors that are expanding distance-running's talent pool than it does about physiology or even training methods.
Manzano finished in 3:34.79, making him the first U.S. athlete to medal in the 1, 500 since Jim Ryun won silver at the Mexico City Games in 1968, and adding to what's turning into a distance-running renaissance for the Americans here in London.
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