<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/26889d3e-7165-4138-b13a-c10493ca72ec/D47BE82E-6302-465F-99D3-2D36F0FA4267/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/an-elite-athlete-training-without-a-coach/" href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/an-elite-athlete-training-without-a-coach/" style="font-size: 11px;">well.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/an-elite-athlete-training-without-a-coach/"><H2 class="entry-title">An Elite Athlete Training Without a Coach</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/an-elite-athlete-training-without-a-coach/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/well.blogs.nytimes.com/img/67DA1BAE-7A86-4B3A-B3A7-16664C98BD7F" alt="DESCRIPTION" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/an-elite-athlete-training-without-a-coach/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/well.blogs.nytimes.com/img/F681772D-0CB6-452B-A1F4-9A2BA77BBEE5" alt="INSERT DESCRIPTION" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/an-elite-athlete-training-without-a-coach/"><SPAN class="caption">Liz Robbins</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/an-elite-athlete-training-without-a-coach/"><P>Before Hendrick Ramaala became a marathon champion, he tried out for the soccer team at his university in Johannesburg, South Africa. When he didn’t make the squad, he ran on the school’s grass track to stay in shape while studying for a law degree. But instead of practicing law, he dedicated himself to elite distance running, preferring to train without a coach.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/an-elite-athlete-training-without-a-coach/"><P>Humble, charismatic and ever determined at age 37, Mr. Ramaala won the New York City Marathon in 2004, finished as a painful runner-up by three-hundredths of a second in 2005, and came in third in New York in 2007. He trains in an unusual setting for an elite distance runner: he runs on a 2.17 mile (3.5 kilometer) loop around Johannesburg’s biggest city park, Zoo Lake.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/an-elite-athlete-training-without-a-coach/"><EM>How do you stay motivated without a coach? </EM></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/an-elite-athlete-training-without-a-coach/">Whenever I see Mr. Ramaala at races or when I visited him in South Africa, </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/an-elite-athlete-training-without-a-coach/">he is always talking to younger </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/an-elite-athlete-training-without-a-coach/">runners, generously </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/an-elite-athlete-training-without-a-coach/">giving advice.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D47BE82E-6302-465F-99D3-2D36F0FA4267/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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