The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.

Army. 0 (1974)
5000 meters - 13:26. Cierpinski was later implicated as a part of the state-sponsored doping program of his country by East German track and field research files uncovered by Werner Franke at the Stasi headquarters in Leipzig in the late 1990s.

Frank Charles Shorter (born October 31 1947) is an American former long-distance runner who won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1972 Summer Olympics. His victory is credited with igniting the running boom in the United States of the 1970s.