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“I didn't know much. It wasn't possible to buy a book about Nurmi, but I found ou…” — Emil Zatopek
I didn't know much. It wasn't possible to buy a book about Nurmi, but I found out that in order to be faster over 10,000m, he ran 5,000m many times in training. And to be better at 5,000m, he ran 1,500m many times. And to be better at 1,500m, he ran four times 400m in training.
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