1.   Finishing the race is the rite of passage of the distance runner.

2.   I, too, was a distance runner.

3.   No other athlete is more revered than the distance runner.

4.   Although he eventually was considered the best distance runner in the world, Zatopek grimaced so much while he ran that he never looked like he enjoyed it.

5.   Also, thoroughbreds began running shorter distances, so breeders produced sprinters rather than more sturdy distance runners.

6.   As his research got going, Costill came back to his question about what, physiologically, makes a good distance runner.

7.   As if to bolster the legitimacy of the entire event, they even brought in the great Kenyan distance runner, Kip Keino.

8.   At the South Pacific Games, she met a distance runner from Fiji named Binesh Prasad.

9.   Both have been sober for a decade, and although they have thrived as distance runners, they say they try not to get too carried away with it.

10.   Both take academic approaches to policy and have been avid distance runners.