Don Kardong
Don Kardong
DonaldFranklin Kardongis a noted runner and author from the United States. He represented his native country in the men's marathon at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRunner
Date of Birth22 December 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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Even for runners who never make the transition to more sophisticated workouts, easing into speedwork will lead to more enjoyable running.
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My introduction to dissociation had been at Kenneth Cooper's clinic in January of 1975. Cooper had assembled a gaggle of top American distance runners and a half dozen top researchers, the intent being to figure out what the difference was - physiologically, biomechanically, psychologically - between elite and subelite runners.
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Beginning runners come in all shapes, sizes and pre-existing conditions, so there's no magic formula for determining exactly how much basic running is needed before you start speedwork. Most experts, though, recommend three or four months of preparation.
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The Kenyans beat up on the American runners in every road race every weekend of the year, but we're way ahead of them in the number and quality of our Elvis impersonators. We get our X-Men and gorillas.
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Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.
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We (ultra runners) alternate between depression and stupidity.
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Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.
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Support the athlete, encourage the team, help the coach. That's what good track parents do.
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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 15 years earlier.
When I started running, a gadget was a wristwatch with a secondhand on it.
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There's always somebody doing something more extreme than you are. It used to be that if you ran the marathon, that was the end of it.
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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 runners, whatever. Make choices that mark off different distances, so your pickups vary in length from 15 to 90 seconds, and modify your pace to match the distance.
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If an athlete takes a shortcut - literally, for example, by running a street that shortens the marathon route by a quarter mile - he or she doesn't have an insurmountable advantage. But it's an unfair advantage, and in a field of equally matched athletes, it's more than enough to make a difference.
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Clearly, there are things a runner does, intentionally or not, that disrupt team cohesion. And there are also things a runner doesn't do that can cause problems: not trying, showing up late, skipping team-building activities, and ignoring the coach's instructions.