If your goal is simply to finish a race, you can run fewer miles than if your goal is to finish with a fast time.

如果你的目标仅仅是完成比赛，与那些目标是快速完成比赛的相比，你可以跑的少一些。

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Watching runners cry or hug their friends and family members after they finish a race can do wonders for your motivation.

运动员比赛后与家人朋友紧紧拥抱、热泪盈眶的场面对增强跑步动力具有神奇的作用。

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When life is difficult and when everything turns bad, always remember that even a turtle can finish a race as long as he never gives up.

——当生活变得艰难时，当一切都不顺时，也请记着，即使是乌龟，只要它不放弃，就能爬到终点。

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There were a lot of jockeys who were making a lot of money, and they'd finish a race, and they found out they had been sold to another plantation, but, you know, they made a lot of money.

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It was a chaotic finish to a race that was stopped nearly 20 minutes five laps from the finish by a 13-car accident that sent driver Michael Annett to a hospital, where his Richard Petty Motorsports team said he would be held overnight with bruising to his chest.

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Fallon was suspended for 21 days in March 2004 for failing to ride to the finish in a race at Lingfield.

BBC: SPORT | Other Sport... | Horse Racing | Profile: Kieren Fallon