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“I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don’t really reflect on what we’ve done in the past. We focus on the present.”
- Derek Jeter

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Episode 94 of The Final Sprint Podcast features my interview with U.S. Olympic Marathon hopeful PETER GILMORE.
In the interview, Peter talks […]

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The 2007 AT&T USA Outdoor Track& Field Championships last month in Indianapolis were among the most successful in recent history.
The excitement of close finishes in the middle-distances, a packed house that provided loud encouragement to the athletes, and the fastest 100-200 double in history by Tyson Gay tell a compelling story. Television ratings, Website […]

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I was honored to have the opportunity to interview Rudy Garcia-Tolson, The Final Sprint’s Success Story selection for December 2006.
Rudy, a Paralympic gold medalist, lives by the motto “A Brave Heart is a Powerful Weapon”. He was born with several, rare birth defects, including the crippling Pterygium Syndrome. At five years old, after […]

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Some days belong on a post card. The days when the sun shines too brightly and people act too happy. Sounds like a paradise right? Well not for me. For me the sunlight and the skipping children in their Sunday best just seemed to drill into my head the life I felt my life was […]

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In speaking to friends of mine who are not runners themselves, I am often told that running is a waste of time. That it is boring, painful, and takes too long are the most cited criticisms during these conversations. And when the critics have uttered their last disparaging remark about running, I am […]

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