Frank Shorter
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"3000 meters": 7:51.4 "5000 meters": 13:26.62 "10,000 meters": 27:45.91 "Marathon": 2:10:30

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"Frank Charles Shorter" is an American former long-distance runner who won the gold medal in the Marathon (sport)/marathon at the 1972 Summer Olympics. His victory is credited with igniting the running boom in the United States in the 1970s.

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It's gotten to the point where American runners only show up to American-only prize money races. It's not really complicated. They won't show up unless you pay them, or it's an American-only prize money race.

You don't rub 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

I think he had a wake-up call. ...It's a different kind of race, and I think maybe he didn't take it quite as seriously as he might have, but you can bet he learned a lot of lessons.

Hills are speedwork in disguise.

There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff.

The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.

For a moment in time on September 9, 1972 I was the luckiest person in the world. I was standing on the awards podium, inside the track and field stadium at the Olympic Games in Munich Germany, gazing through a blur of mild shock and tears, trying to focus on the American flag.