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
olympics runners
Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.
stupidity ultras runners
We (ultra runners) alternate between depression and stupidity.
enjoyable runners
Even for runners who never make the transition to more sophisticated workouts, easing into speedwork will lead to more enjoyable running.
clinic cooper dozen elite figure half intent january kenneth runners
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.
basic exactly formula four months needed recommend runners running sizes three
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.
beat elvis number race runners weekend
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.
prior
Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.
running thinking numbers
Runners like to train 100 miles per week because it's a round number. But I think 88 is a lot rounder.
running carbohydrates distance-runner
There's no such thing as a bad carbohydrate.
running stupid race
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 do stupid things that disrupt all the input and training of the previous months.
marathon idiot hills
You entered a marathon with hills? You idiot.
moose disease tick
I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. Ill take an angry moose any day.
running lonely hurt
In those long, lonely miles you put in during the off-season, and in those knife-in-the-gut repetitions and hill repeats that buckly your knees - at that moment in almost every race when you ask yourself how much you're willing to hurt to catch one more runner - you can draw strength and inspiration from your running mates.
cities advice pathways
So here's my advice to city planners. Make your city runnable. Runners are the first wave of troops bringing human activity back to the urban core of any city. Where we go, others will follow. The connection between runnability and livability is so clear (at least to me), that it's surprising that new developments consistently leave pathways out of the plans...