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Anyone who has watched him train knows that the world's fastest human does everything slowly except run. He is slow to start his workout. His warmup is usually a slow jog once around the track. He spends a lot of time talking and walking, slowly. Lewis grabs the tape measure and stretches it 171 ft. along the track, the distance of his approach for the long jump. This is the first activity of most workouts. But Lewis does not normally jump in practice; he merely runs through the paces of his approach. This final workout lasts...
...cardiovascular endurance, which is what running develops," he wrote. Thus there was irony mixed with tragedy when Fixx died this month at 52 from a heart attack while pounding the road in Vermont. Last week his legions of disciples around the country were suddenly running scared and asking: Did jog ging kill Jim Fixx...
...more likely to die you don't jog than...
Ludtke, Holmes and Gate, all onetime New Yorkers, got together for a head-clearing jog one morning last week. Said Gate of the short surcease from the trials of a late-starting cover story: "It produced a different kind of sweat, but it felt great...
...kilometers of the route, but by April, only 4,000 had been spoken for. The route was scaled down to 15,000 kilometers through only 33 states and the District of Columbia. The unsponsored miles will be run by 250 A T & T employees, who will also jog alongside sponsored runners. Runners will be accompanied by a four-vehicle security and ambulance escort, part of a fleet of 37 cars, vans and trailers offering everything from a whirlpool bath to filet mignon. The convoy, the cheering crowds and the challenge of running an Olympic kilometer is likely to make even...