Don Kardong Quotes

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• Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.
• 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)…
• 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…
• There's no such thing as a bad carbohydrate.
• Runners like to train 100 miles per week because it's a round number. But I think 88 is a lot rounder.
• Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge.
• 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…
• Grizzly bears eat people without the benefit of music.
• You entered a marathon with hills? You idiot.
• 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…
• 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…
• Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.
• 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…
• Even for runners who never make the transition to more sophisticated workouts, easing into speedwork will lead to more enjoyable running.
• 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…
• When I started running, a gadget was a wristwatch with a secondhand on it.
• 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…
• Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.
• 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,…
• 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,…

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