“It's probably the toughest distance race in the world to win. World class runners from 1500m to the marathon contest it and instead of just three runners from each country, like in the Olympics or World Championships, in the senior men's race there are nine.” MenWorldCountryRunningThreeWinningRaceClassDistanceNineOlympicsChampionshipSeniorRunnersContestsMarathonWorld Class Author:Paul Tergat
“It's an incredible feeling, 110,000 people energy at that level. What I realized from watching the first day of competition was that athletes that got excited and happy and got the fans into it and clapping, they did better. The athletes that took it too seriously, they didn't do as well as they'd hoped.” PeopleFirstsWellsFeelingsRunningEnergyLevelsFansCompetitionIncrediblesAthleteExcitedI RealizedClapping Author:Gabe Jennings
“The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts.” PlayRunningFourTrackMilesClassicInspirational RunningSymmetryMarathon RunnersDistance RunnerDistance RunningRunning TrainingTraining For A MarathonTrack RunningRunning TrackTrack Runners Author:John Landy
“After I left the podium in Atlanta, I felt so fulfilled in my career that I lost my desire to compete at that level again.” RunningDesireLostLeftFeltLevelsCareersFulfilledAtlanta Author:Carl Lewis
“It was a very strange, disappointing race in that no one wanted to take it out. That's why I took the lead. I wanted some people to run the real distance and that was frustrating. So I took the pace around the second lap, which in some ways is suicidal...but I wanted the pace to be honest.” PeopleWayRealRunningWantedRaceHonestStrangeDistanceBeing HonestPaceSuicidalFrustratingLapDisappointing Author:Marla Runyan
“I wanted to run my race. I didn't want to sit there and play games and see who could kick the hardest. I wanted it to be a race.” WantPlayRunningWantedGamesRaceHardestKicks Author:Marla Runyan
“The start of a World Cross Country event is like riding a horse in the middle of a buffalo stampede. It's a thrill if you keep up, but one slip and you're nothing but hoof prints.” IfsWorldCountryRunningMiddleEventsCrossesHorsePrintSlipsRidingThrillMarathonInspirational RunningBuffaloCross Country RunningMarathon RunningMotivational Cross Country RunningCross Country MotivationalStampede Author:Ed Eyestone
“When I was about 14 or 15, and running in a pretty muddy cross country race, one of my shoes stuck in the mud and came off. Boy, was I wild. To think that I had trained hard for this race and didn't do up my shoelace tightly enough! I really got aggressive with myself, and I found myself starting to pass a lot of runners. As it turned out, I improved something like twenty places in that one race. But I never did get my shoe back.” ThinkingCountryHardEnoughRunningFoundRaceBoysCrossesTwentiesShoesStartingStuckAggressiveRunnersMudInspirational RunningMuddyCross Country RunningShoelaces Author:Robert de Castella