Sentences with phrase «middle distance runner»

Tanya is a lifelong runner and formerly competed on the University of Houston cross country and track teams as a middle distance runner.
Furthermore, when you compare my muscles to the muscles of an elite distance runner, you may find that their muscles are barely more powerful than mine — and a whole lot less powerful than those of an olympic middle distance runner.
«El G,» who at 5» 9» was estimated to have the cardiovascular system of a man 6» 6», the inseam of a man 6» 2», and the upper body of a man 5» 2» («a machine,» said commentator Craig Masbach, a former 3:52 miler himself) was also motivated by deepest of callings; he believed that it was his destiny in the eyes of Allah to become the greatest middle distance runner in history.
Middle distance runner Sara Hall, wife of U.S. marathoner Ryan Hall, says the conditions could create an advantage for this year's American field.
Tracy, who is also a hurdler and middle distance runner on the girls» track and field team — it seems the only sport this Tracy Austin doesn't play is tennis — admits she feels pressure with a game on the line.
What people should also know is that North African produces good middle distance runners, though more further west than Egypt.
But athletes not exclusively focused on the extremes can benefit from both strength and endurance training (athletes such as sprinters, middle distance runners, decathletes, football players, etc).
Training of various sports athletes to achieve a higher performance in their chosen sport in pursuit of specific goals and targets — this included soccer players, rugby union players, sprinters and middle distance runners and tri-athletes.

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Nick Symmonds, an American middle - distance runner who won a silver medal at World Championships in Russia in 2013, was booted from Team USA for the 2015 games in Beijing because he refused to wear Nike at team functions.
When Phil Knight was a middle - distance runner on his track team at the University of Oregon, Bowerman used to holler at him to «run faster.»
It divided distressed managers into three broad categories: sprinters, marathon runners and middle distance / milers.
Inasmuch as two of these five colts (Tomy Lee and Ole Fols) are by Tudor Minstrel and two (Finnegan and Royal Orbit) are by Royal Charger, it is worth noting that in England, where they both raced, Tudor Minstrel was considered a middle - distance runner and Royal Charger a sprinter.
For Keino it would be a duel in the mile with Marty Liquori, America's top middle - distance runner now that Jim Ryun is taking a sabbatical, and a chance to buy a pair of semi-mod brown slacks.
I recall the exhilaration I felt as a college middle - distance runner in 1975 upon learning that John Walker had run a 3:49.4 mile.
The three surviving runners — Delaney, Jons and freshman Arte Huhn — are here, as well as two activated redshirts and three middle - distance runners who are in no shape to run against powerhouse Colorado or much of the rest of the field at the Rocky Mountain Shootout.
To alleviate the loneliness of the middle - distance runner, El Guerrouj has occasionally ventured into cyberspace.
Harkness had been a middle - distance runner at De Witt Clinton High and hadn't played varsity basketball until his senior year.
Dame Kelly Holmes claims there were lots of «killer» sessions that she used to complete as an elite middle - distance runner but recalls one particularly challenging workout that she did on a regular basis.
On top of that, he approaches this weekend's European Team Championships and the forthcoming British Athletics World Championships Team Trials with the congratulatory words of three of the finest middle - distance runners ever to set foot on a track still ringing in his ears.
«Laura is a fantastic athlete and I think over the coming years she's the one to watch when it comes to middle - distance runners and her profile in British athletics,» she said.
The Scottish middle - distance runner well and truly announced herself on the global stage by winning 1500m silver and 3000m bronze at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham last month.
John Rinn, snowboarder, skateboarder, and «genomic origamist,» on why we should dumpster - dive in our genomes and the inspiration of a middle - distance runner.
He was a competitive middle - distance runner for 20 years and is now a more leisurely cyclist and triathlete.
A UK runner who once held all four middle distance world records, at the same time... the 800m, 1000m, 1500m and the mile.
Born of working - class Italian - American stock, Zamperini's childhood in Depression - era California was marked by minor bouts of delinquency until he discovered his talents as a middle - distance runner and went on to represent his country at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
One section of the coloured bands is a distorted image of Caster Semenya (a South African middle - distance runner who has appeared in several works by Dordoy), intersected by a black - and - white image of an outstretched hand holding a lit candle, the melting wax pouring over the side of the palm.
John Rinn, snowboarder, skateboarder, and «genomic origamist,» on why we should dumpster - dive in our genomes and the inspiration of a middle - distance runner.
The daughter of a nationally - ranked middle - distance runner and granddaughter of a Canadian marathon legend, Amy's writing chronicles the personal journey of a young athlete struggling to make good on her family's storied marathon legacy.
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