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Sometimes, when I walk out onto the track I think, 'What am I doing here? Why do I put myself through this?' But that's when you really get into your focus ... you focus on the race you are going to run.
What we do is just race hard on the track every week. That's the way I'd like it to be documented, and if we watch the tape, we'll see that the No. 48 swerved into us first and I know that, before even watching the tape.
i race you ryles
The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.
The best runners every year are those who race out way too fast.
I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And when he gets to full stride, for every two steps the other guy's taking, he's just taking one.
I began with track and field because this is what I know.
I gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year
Many athletes are seeking new and novel ways of pushing their limits, and the challenge of running back-to-back races is certainly one way to test the boundaries.
Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race.
Where did you run today? Now there's a question you don't often hear.
Do the work. Do the analysis. But feel your run. Feel your race. Feel the joy that is running.
You must really want to win with all of your heart! Plan your race; do not ever get side tracked. Focus on your goal - "the finishing line"!
I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.
As every runner knows, running is about more than just putting one foot in front of the other; it is about our lifestyle and who we are.
WINNER:is A Runner who Wins Inspite Of Ninety Nine Excellent
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I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there.
After college I picked my races to be one race every two weeks. That gave me time to recover. I raced just as fast as my legs would carry me. At the end of every race there was nothing left. I walked off the track completely spent!
So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.
I always wanted to be a sprinter.
Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.
Let's face it: I am not a professional runner.
You learn to run like a sprinter, you'll be a great distance runner
I'm just going to go out there and try to win the race. When you go out there trying to go for a record, you're usually not going to get it.
Of all athletic forms, running is perhaps the most taxing and the most exciting; that is, when carried to the extreme.
I grew up on basketball, volleyball, that sort of thing. For me, track and field was a whole 'nother beast.
You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that.
I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.
The best runner leaves no tracks. - Tao Te Ching
I don't mind tracksuits. At the track.
There are certain racetracks where I feel like I could run 1,000 miles.
Nobody had a bigger heart or passion to win than America's Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine "Pre." Watch the movies Prefontaine, Without Limits, or Fire on the Track to see what I'm talking about.
Run your own race at an even pace. Consider the course, the temperature, the weather, and most importantly, your current level of fitness.
Don't waste your time in the race looking back to see what the other guy is doing. It's not about the other guy. It's about what can you do. You just need to run that race as hard as you can. You need to give it everything you've got, all the time, for yourself.
Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us?
WHEN I finally slowed and looked around, I saw with amazement I'd trotted sixteen blocks in about three minutes. Summer Olympics, here I come. Assuming they held the races at night.
Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.
The secret of my success over the 400m is that I run the first 200m as fast as I can. Then, for the second 200m, with God's help I run faster.
I love the relays. Track is such an individual sport, so it's fun to do something together.
The hunger and desire to go racing, however, never leaves your blood but the right opportunity has never really come along - until now that is.
So much in life seems inflexible and unchangeable, and part of the joy of running and especially racing is the realization that improvement and progress can be achieved.
When you hit a certain spot you Sprint no matter how you feel inside or what your co-runner thinks. You just go! In training as a nickel, you sprint because you need to sprint! You just do it! In racing people see it and call it courage, but it is attitude; determination; duty.
Running on different types of racetracks is challenging - not only for the drivers, but even more for the team members who have to make adjustments to the cars before each race.
The track's all yours. We won't get in your way: by then we will have set off chasing ourselves rather than you.
The race is long. To finish first, you must first finish.
I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no distance running champions. They get down to the track with a stopwatch and flog their guts out thinking that it'll make them a champion, but they'll never make a champion that way.
Im running in a race and people are on the other track, I'm running with myself
I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.
It is not how you start the race or where you are during the race-it is how you cross the finish line that will matter.
Long slow distance makes long slow runners.
I find motivation within myself. I run track not from a competitive Nature, but because I'm a very goal-oriented person.
Running is perhaps the most fundamental of all sports, and it is economically the least costly to perform. As a consequence, it is the most democratic and most competitive of all sports because individual merit can prevail despite economic equality. It is a sport for everyone, the whole world over.
Racing is not what I like to do; it's winning.
You don't race cars, you race the rule book
We always trotted everywhere at Camp Arthur Currie. I never did find out who Currie was, but he must have been a trackman.
I look at myself as the 'Batman' of track
a vigilante. You may not like me, but I'm needed.
You can't ever make the perfect run, but you can make the best run, and then you clock the fastest time, and that's a win.
Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.
That is the sort of race which one really enjoys - to feel at one's peak on the day when it is necessary, and to be able to produce the pace at the very finish. It gives a thrill which compensates for months of training and toiling. But it is the sort of race that one wants only about once a season.
In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.
I like to race, not to do laps alone.
I love racing and I love doing well.
Running is a brutal and emotional sport. It's also a simple, primal sport. As humans, on a most basic level, we get hungry, we sleep, we yearn for love, we run.
When you run a race, you hurt your ability to compete when you turn your head to look at the competition chasing you, you lose a step physically and psychologically. Run the race always stretching to do your best, imitations will come in last, no one can catch an original.
A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best.
I can't run my own race. I'm constantly checking what's happening in the other lanes.
I can't run forever. I decided to go back to school for my degree, because I know now there's more to life than track.
Running is my church.
Don't be envious of the runner in the lane next to you; just focus on finishing your race.
Tracking is a simple exercise. It works because it brings moment-to-moment awareness to the actions you take in the area of your life you want to improve
Mileage makes champions
Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.
A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.
I'm going to go and leave my blood all over the track.
The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.
I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.
Support the athlete, encourage the team, help the coach. That's what good track parents do.
I have been going from one racetrack to another for years, since I was 14.
I don't believe in wearing track pants unless you are in an actual athletic situation.
The number one Runner rule: Never. Stop. Running
When I started running cross-country and track in high school, literally every race was a failure.
Twice a week I'll run fast quality workouts either on the track or road.
Whether it's putting on a bunny costume and running with friends, or simply appreciating the whining coming out of the guy next to you, races offer moments when you can simply enjoy the people around you and feel happy.
Practice being in the moment when you are running, whether you are on your own or in the race.
For most of the track world, the Olympic year is such a huge year, and it's a big year for us marathoners too.
Racing is a calling, a passion.
That's the beauty of this great sport (track), though-it's such a fine line between success or not, which makes the sweet moments that much more worth savoring.
In a race, what matters is not who started first, but who finished first.
My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000.
Every time I race, I will race so fiercely my legs cry.
When I race, I don't think about it; it just happens.
You better keep your lane on this race of reaching out for our dreams and goals; don't stand in the middle of the road because you will be run over by those who are determined to reach the finishing line.
The Olympics are a world apart from racing for a record. You put out of your mind pretty much what anyone else doing in the race.
Your perception of racing needs to be fine-tuned
I race to win. That's the point.
Those youngsters go out there and set a record and clinch the pole position. But what do you do if you wreck your car. That record doesn't spend too well.
The runner's greatest asset, apart from essential fitness of body, is a cool and calculating brain allied to confidence and courage.
I race kind of sparingly.
I race to win, not to please people.
Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing.