"There are no supersecret workouts out there, " says Burfoot, now an editor at large for Runners World.
Mr. Pistorius went on to become one of the fastest runners in the world for the 400 meters distance.
England have been World Cup runners-up three times but struggled in 1996, 1999, 2003 and 2007.
So how does a nation of 2.8 million people - that's fewer people than in Chicago - produce so many world class runners?
But Pakistan wicket-keeper Moin Khan and Abdul Razzaq held their nerves and reached an unbeaten sixth wicket stand of 47 to help the World Cup runners-up to victory.
Gateshead will also host two of the world's top 400m runners with Jamaica's Commonwealth gold medallist Michael Blackwood and reigning world champion Avard Moncur of the Bahamas both sceduled to appear.
Though it started as a small hometown race, runners come from around the world to compete.
Crowds were in the area watching the runners take part in the world's oldest annual marathon.
Uruguay were runners-up in the World Youth Cup of 1997, and semi-finalists in 1999.
The half-marathon attracts about 54, 000 runners from all over the world to the North East for the run on 16 September.
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Runners who are running for world peace, for their sons and daughters, in the memory of their moms and dads, for raising funds for cancer studies, against hunger and guns, and for equality for all.
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The world's fastest runners will crouch in the starting blocks at the Olympics in Beijing this summer, but Oscar Pistorius will not be among them.
There are suggestions that it could be the last major he ever plays, which would leave him with a record of five runners-up finishes in the world's top competitions.
Given that only group winners are guaranteed a spot in the World Cup, with runners-up having to go through a two-legged playoff against one of the second-placed nations in one of the other European groups, things could get tricky for the world champions.
After winning Boston in 2006 with a time of 2:23:38, she'd become an international marathon star especially in East Africa, a part of the world where long-distance runners are revered above all other athletes.
In March, it looked as though Pistorius would not get the chance to compete against able-bodied runners after the IAAF, athletics' world governing body, introduced a rule banning any runner deemed to benefit from artificial help.
Meb partnered with Sony to develop a product that would invigorate his marathon training program as well as the regimens of runners and health and fitness enthusiasts around the world.
Moments after New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg officially canceled Sunday's New York City Marathon, hysteria hit the running world: Hundreds of suddenly stranded runners began searching the racing calendar for new options, and other marathons were more than happy to adopt the vagabonds.
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"I think it's very hard, if not impossible, to change body mechanics, " said Dr. Perry Julien, a podiatrist who has treated Olympic runners and serves as the co-medical director of the world's biggest 10K, the Atlanta Peachtree Road Race.
The runners-up finish sees McIlroy move up to seventh in the world rankings with his compatriot McDowell now fourth on his own.
Gerardo Martino's South Americans will now face the runners-up of Group E, while Slovakia, who stunned world champions Italy 3-2 will face the winners of that group.
One is that Mr Putin simply wants to keep the world guessing, before plumping for one of the two front-runners.
The Welsh were the best of the British nations at last year's World Cup, reaching the semifinals before a heartbreaking defeat against eventual runners-up France in which captain Sam Warburton was sent off.
Border security has dramatically worsened in the aftermath of the revolution, as thousands of illegal immigrants, drug smugglers and gun runners try to slip from impoverished Yemen into Saudi Arabia, one of the world's richest countries, Lt al-Ahmari told the BBC's Frank Gardner.
Els has won seven World Match Play titles on the course but has had to settle for three runners-up finishes in the PGA Championship.
Only one team automatically qualifies for the World Cup from each of the nine European groups, with the eight best runners-up going into a playoff in November.
Other seeds such as Tommy Haas, Fernando Verdasco, David Ferrer, Lleyton Hewitt, Gael Monfils and Marin Cilic also progressed along with former tournament runners-up Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Marcos Baghdatis and Rainer Schuettler, but former world No. 7 Richard Gasquet was eliminated.
Take a look at just about any major endurance race of the past 30 years, everything from the Boston Marathon to the World Cross Country Championships to the Summer Olympics, and you'll see runners from Kenya, men and women, standing on the winner's podium.
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