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A good teammate is someone willing to get outside of personal thoughts and emotions, a friend who tries to understand, appreciate, and encourage other members of the team.

~Don Kardong

Topics: Appreciate Emotions Encourage Friend Get Good Members Other Outside Personal Someone Team Teammate Thoughts Tries Understand Who Willing

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Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings.

~Don Kardong

Topics: Adventure Buddies Competition Continue Days Discuss Enter Eventually Good Good Old Days Health Injuries Kings Knees Old Old Days Phase Remember Restrict Ritual Run Running Sanity Sunday Trail Us Were

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When I went to the starting line of the 1976 Olympic marathon in Montreal, it was with the unsettling conviction that some of my competitors were cheaters.

~Don Kardong

Topics: Cheaters Competitors Conviction Line Marathon Montreal Olympic Some Starting Unsettling Were

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When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.

~Don Kardong

Topics: Athlete Back Brought Cheaters Cheating Darkness Day Forgotten Glance He Heart Hopes Justice Mind Persistent Really Room Rumors Savage Some Somehow Them Those Where Will

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In those long, lonely miles you put in during the off-season, and in those knife-in-the-gut track repetitions and hill repeats that buckle 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.

~Don Kardong

Topics: Almost Ask Catch Draw Every Hill How How Much Hurt Inspiration Knees Lonely Long Mates Miles Moment More Much Off-Season Put Race Repeats Runner Running Strength Those Track Willing You Your Yourself

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The body responds to a calorie deficit by slowing down the metabolism and burning muscle tissue. That leads to weakness, sluggishness, slow times. In girls, it can also result in cessation of menstrual periods, which in turn leads to loss of bone density and frequent stress fractures.

~Don Kardong

Topics: Also Body Bone Burning Calorie Cessation Deficit Density Down Frequent Girl Leads Loss Metabolism Muscle Periods Responds Result Slow Slowing Stress Times Tissue Turn Weakness Which

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I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. I'll take an angry moose any day.

~Don Kardong

Topics: Angry Any Bite Day Disease Ended Know Moose Runners Suffered Take Tick Up Who

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Cheer for your teammates, regardless of whether they're fast or slow, veteran or neophyte, varsity or JV. Or rally the spirits of someone who's had a bad performance. Also, encourage stragglers during tough workouts; jog back to 'pick up' a runner who's behind during a long run.

~Don Kardong

Topics: Also Back Bad Behind Cheer Encourage Fast Had Jog Long Long Run Performance Pick Rally Regardless Run Runner Slow Someone Spirits Teammates Tough Up Veteran Whether Workouts Your

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Sure, the first light snowfall may be a chance to dance giddily, leaving squeaky footprints through the neighborhood, marking the runner's right to the domain. But later drubbings of snow merely complicate running. Snow turns to ice, to slush, to ice again. Tire ruts twist ankles. New snow hides the hazards.

~Don Kardong

Topics: Again Ankles Chance Complicate Dance Domain First Footprints Hazards Hides Ice Later Leaving Light Marking May Merely Neighborhood New Right Runner Running Ruts Slush Snow Sure Through Tire Turns Twist

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The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through Rip Van Winkle country, routed through boulder fields, across angular juttings of granite and along a path with an unrelenting barrage of roots, rocks and mud, all of it hidden under slick leaves and dangling nettles.

~Don Kardong

Topics: Across Along Boulder Country Ever Fields Granite Hidden Leaves Mud New New York Path Race Ran Rip Rocks Roots Slick State Through Toughest Trail Van York

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Athlete

Born: December 22nd, 1948

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