Don Kardong Quotes

Hills are speedwork in disguise.

Twice a week I'll run fast quality workouts either on the track or road.

Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.

I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.

You have to run 75 to 100 miles a week if you expect to break the four-minute mile.

When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow.

We're designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. What's built into that kind of running is a sense of pleasure. You are designed and built and perfect for this activity, and it should be enjoyable and fun.

We do the majority of what most athletes do. For example, as a badminton player, you have to be able to run a long distance and sprint. We do weights three times a week.

Long runs improve your endurance but shorter intervals improve your speed. They are mutually beneficial for a distance runner. If you do 5k runs it will help your marathon.

I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.

As an athlete, you can train for so many years to be a 5K/10K runner. That's who you are, and it's hard to change that. Not using that technique - almost like a sprint - that's when you have to loosen up and just save as much energy as you can.

A lot of the people I know, they don't train like that. They do a lot of quick stuff, just speed drills. But I run long distance. I've always been like that, though, even when I was in high school. That's just how I train myself.

You learn to run like a sprinter, you'll be a great distance runner

Usually, sprinting is my main source of energy and recovery time because that's how I move.

We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard and steady - instead of speeding up and slowing down, reacting to the terrain with changes of pace and rhythm.

I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.

I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.

I still do intense interval training. I like miles and quarters best. In races I can set my mind, and I believe I could break 2:20 again.

No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner.

I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.

I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.

I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to relax during a race and how to breathe.

Train at the same pace day after day, week after week, year after year, and that's the kind of running the body adapts to. But break out of that comfort zone with a little speedwork now and then, and the body will learn to deal with the new demands.

I was playing a defensive guard in 'My All American' who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn't too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.

You could run harder, longer. If the workout was four 200s really, really fast, they wouldn't seem as hard as before. You could cut the rest down from five minutes to three. That's a big difference.