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It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.

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

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When I am totally race fit, I don't worry about breathing or technique - they take care of themselves.

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The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.

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When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.

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A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

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In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.

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The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.

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Hills are speedwork in disguise.

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I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.

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I plan to be running as long as I can and have no plans to stop.

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What you did was live on very little. I think all of us that were competing - Bill is the same way - you don't need much to live.

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Again, racing for me was about energy management.

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I graduated from Yale in 1969, from the University of Florida Law School in 1974, and passed the Colorado bar and was admitted in 1975.

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For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point.

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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.

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Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.

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I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.

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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.

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As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.

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Because running fast is more fun than running slow.

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Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.

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I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.

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I also held several masters running titles.

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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.

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