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Gerald "Gerry" Paul Lindgren (born March 9, 1946) is an American track and field runner who set many long-standing high school and national records in the United States. In 1965, Lindgren and Billy Mills both broke the world record for the six-mile run when they finished in an extremely rare tie at the AAU National Championships, both running exactly 27:11.6. Lindgren went on to win a record 11 NCAA collegiate championships with Washington State University.

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If you KNOW dehydration is a problem in long runs it becomes a problem in long runs.

Becomes, Dehydration, Know, Long, Running

The only thing that lives beyond the grave is the wake you have created by the way you have lived your life; the goals you have set; the distance away from the normal you dared to tread.

Distance, Goal, Grave, Life, Thing, Wakes You

Goals should be impossible! You should tread FEARLESSLY where the brave dare not go.

Brave, Fearlessly, Goal, Impossible

This life is made to change all reality. We are here for the benefit, happiness, and welfare of a new reality; a new direction.

Benefit, Benefits, Life Is, Reality, Welfare

Based on my experience; I would develop fast speed before anything else. Get your young runners so they can run and teach them speed.

Based, Running, Speed, Young

Kids are afraid that if they race too fast they will get tired. Way too much fear and way too little COURAGE.

Afraid, Fast, Kids, Race, Tired, Way

I never did cross training or lifted weights or put anything between myself and my passion for running.

Cross, Passion, Running, Training, Weights

Speedwork is terribly overrated! I remember talking to runners after distance races and someone is sure to say they were able to run fast off base work with no speed work at all. The truth is speedwork doesn't work. Lots of miles, and then fast miles gets you there much quicker than speed work.

Distance, Race, Races, Running, Speedwork, Truth

The FEAR of becoming dehydrated causes dehydration. As with so many things in our life, it is because we KNOW it is a problem that it is a problem.

Becoming, Causes, Dehydrated, Dehydration, Life, Problem

I always enjoyed the training more than I did the racing. There was a high level of anxiety in racing that I did not enjoy. Training runs set me FREE. I could imagine the race in my mind and race as if it were the actual race.

Anxiety, Imagine, Level, Race, Running

The best runners every year are those who race out way too fast.

Fast, Race, Way, Year, Years

I thought perhaps people with injuries could be subject to a starters gun to cure them.

Gun, Injury, People, Starters, Subject, Thought

There are champions in every neighborhood. Anyone can run to the very top. ANYONE! But you have to (a) start right, (b) think right, and (c) believe. Most runners get lost in one or more of those three steps.

Believe, Champions, Running, Start, Thinking, Top

When you hit a certain spot you Sprint no matter how you feel inside or what your co-runner thinks. You just go! In training as a nickel, you sprint because you need to sprint! You just do it! In racing people see it and call it courage, but it is attitude; determination; duty.

Attitude, Courage, Determination, Duty, Nickel, Thinking

Setting goals that have already been achieved is a cop-out.

Achieved, Already, Cop, Goal, Setting, Settings

Ideally I would start by racing my athletes once every two weeks. But, such a program has to be flexible because some runners improve better with weekly races or even bi-weekly races. A coach has to adjust to what is best for the runner.

Athlete, Ideally, Race, Runner, Start, Two

If you look at your life and compare your life to that of an evil person, you will find that in most regards both lives are the same. You don't live a longer life or live forever by being virtuous.

Compare, Evil, Forever, Lives, Looks, Regards

Kids as young as twelve CAN run 90 minutes, and they can train hard to run fast, BUT they lose something in training hard at that early age.

Age, Kids, Lose, Running, Train Hard, Training

The 3-minute mile goal is to teach runners that the impossible is where goals should be set.

Goal, Goals, Impossible, Mile, Should

My key to victory was that I always went out way too fast. Too fast erases every other race strategy out there. Everyone is hanging on for dear life or they give up.

Everyone, Giving Up, Keys, Race, Strategy, Victory

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