Block says he ran in high school, then stopped running until he was 28. I was a single parent and decided that my children needed a dad that was strong and sober. It has made all the difference in the world. Whan do anything with their training schedules except gape in awe. Toshihiko Seko, in prepping for a marathon, would regularly put in long runs of 50K and 50 miles en route to 200-mile weeks.
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When training on the twisting, curving country roads of her beloved Maine, which she preferred to altitude, she never ran the inside corners, always taking the longer outside. Once he made the commitment to be a world class runner he was very careful to get nine hours of sleep a night. He even gave up coffee cold turkey when he thought it might negatively affect his performance. With story after story of runners, one might expect they would begin to sound alike. Actually, they don't.